Jtc & Clb

A Memory of Blaydon.

I often look back to the times when I was in the JTC & CLB; there was a group of us young lads went from one to the other as time went by. One lad in particular, Ivan Perry, who used to live in Flash Street behind the blacksmiths. His father (Eddie) was in the CLB when we were in the JTC. When we were doing the displays at the drill hall Ivor and me being smaller lads always got the job of being at the top of the pyramids - it was great fun. In the CLB I used to enjoy the march from the drill hall to St Cuthberts Church on a Sunday playing the bugle. Dez Carter who ran the CLB was a great man and very popular with the lads. It's people like him that gave all of us so many happy memories in the 50's & 60's.

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