Update Of Those Memories Of The 60,S.

A Memory of Menithwood.

And so i became a full teenage worker, ha ha , off to earn all that fabulous money, to buy all i wanted and roll around every where in style, be like the grown ups , drink beer down the pub or up the pub in my case as we lived below Menith Wood.The village had two pubs, the cross keys and the bird in hand, there was mention of another drinking place but i do not know the other ,if it ever was there.
so off to work i went , packed lunch and drink in my knapsack, and kean to get started.
my destination was Alton Glass Houses, sited on the far forrest run by the pound family, just outside Bewdley.full of expectation i arrived there full of excitement and a little fear, after all i was now amongst men not kids men, jeeppers, oh well, with dads words of do your best nicky and do,nt let your mother and me down still resonating in my ears i was introduced to the formane and taken around the works and shown all there was before leaving me in the assembly shop with a characture by the name of , wait for it, dixie deans, yes you read right dixie deans, namesake of a famouse footballer of the times. he was a nice enough guy and was to show me the ropes of assembling the wood frames for building green houses. he was to my surprise a dedicated fan of elvis presley and bought all his records and got in to lts of banter and arguments about his beloved elvis.
and so to my first wage packet, wow just like dads off the farm where he worked for the Coopers at claywood. cannot remember the exact amount ,something like £5 and 10 shillings, cripes i did not what to do with it , where do i start how much should i spend how much do i give mum what am i going to buy first , aaaaggghhhhh too much at once ha ha ,so after much deliberation, i wanted to give mum most of it but she would not take it and said you will have to pay your way now son and you can give me for your keep of course£2, what oh dear i never thought about that, and you will have to pay for your nights out now as well too do,nt forget , oh blimey i never thought of that niether, so lets see, mum £2, nights out about £1 10 shillings, that leaves me with blimey £1 10 shillings ,great stuff woopee. so lets open the pay packet then and look at this wonderfull money. Opens and gasps in shock. mum, mum, whats this mean i only have £4 what have they done wrong, ah son you have not been told then about tax and national insurance then i take it, what , tax , whats that, and this national insurance, whats that too, half me monies gone mum, whoes this tax thing. and welcome to the real world ha ha ha .so endeth the first lesson on adult hood, now take care of your money son mum said. and so to living like an adult, after awhile i adjusted to using my money with care although like most when your young your eys are bigger than your pay packet.
now i could go to the pictures go dancing although there was always big lads who got drunk and ended up fighting over a girl or some such argument. but this world had so much to offer, motor bikes girls and more girls and more girls and of course rugby , closely followed by the great pop music of our time, rock and roll serenades, ballads, etc, wow it was all too much, so exciting and kept me on cloud nine for most the time. this was it i had arrived, i was one of the grown ups now all the kids would nod to me now when they saw me in the street, cool, ha ha , oh what bliss, fun and pure pleasure of being a teenager on the brink of a new begining.
and so came the motor bikes ,a shotgun to go across the fields , much to the annoyance of the farmer, dancing at the Bridge Hotel in Tenbury Wells, playing darts with the village team and going around all the local pubs doin so, playing rugby and foot ball for the local village and rugby for Tenbury, meeting lots of new people to talk too and go for rides on the weekends, paying my way which felt good really.pictures Nd ice cream followed by fish and chips for 5 shillings and bus fare home, the beatles,rolling stones everly brothers, hollies, kinks, the who, small faces, spencer davies group, trogs ,helen shapero, dusty springfield,sandy shaw, cilla black, rightous brothers unit four plus two, eddison light house ,beach boys, buddy holly, and so on, yes a good time to be alive.