All Of Tilehurst

I lived in Beverley Road from the age of about 4yrs and I remember playing in the clay pits. I also spent many hours in the woods at Sulham with my friends. I was born in 1944 and went to the Laurels and then Park Lane, on leaving there I went to Stoneham School. When I was about 13 yrs old I started working as a butchers boy at Wedlocks in School Road where I stayed until I was 17yrs of age. I remember the owner Charlie Wedlock well and Brian Howarth who worked for him also the Dainton brothers. I made sausages and plucked turkeys, at Christmas we did not have enough room to store all the birds and relied on the weather being cold. I stayed in the meat trade most of my working life.
My Nanny Bonnett who lived in Polsted Road sent me on a Saturday Morning to get her radio batteries charged at a shop in Armour Road but I can't recall its name it mainly sold fruit and veg.
A memory of Tilehurst from Roger Wyatt

Hi Roger !! Hows my old mentor these days ? Great memories of Wedlocks and the antics we used to get up to. we should catch up some time , Im still in touch with Kieth Sipson and what ever happened to Dennis Pibworth ?