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- Would love to hear from anyone that lived in Durham St in the 1951 to 1966 period.Names I remember,
Derek Woodford,Bill Woodford, Bob [Robert] Woodford, Don Matthews, and a lad that lived in Beryton Road , Bill McNamara, and his bro Ray McNamara.
Other lads names that I went with Sam Buxey.Tony Tapenden.Michael Smith.Vic Collins.Ted Row ,was best man at my wedding in 1959 ,''ST MARY'S CHURCH Alverstoke.''And
the Kent brothers that would fight most weekends in a pub somewhere in Gosport ,them days are long gone,pubs aint pubs no more a.There was a great fight at a dance in the CONOUGHT
[spelling?] drillhall one year maybe 1954-55, it lasted for about 30 min and there wasn't a winner they both shook hands and went their way,the police got there and just stood and
watched.Sometimes when a fight broke out the landlord would phone the police and the police would ask who is fighting and when hearing who was fighting would say there was no policemen able
to go,and hang up the phone,true storey.Scraps were common in them days right out in the open not like ''now ''them thugs waylaying old people and the like.Dogs and cats would
please themselves where they went a.And the dustbin lads always got a present left at the bin pickup at Christmas time. And what happened to Bill Vinyl and his bro PIPĀ the
scaffolder,and the ''roof tilers family'' the Squibbs. And the Cornelius family that lived in a kind of shelter[1949] on Forton Rd next to that park opposite Russell
St, they were a family of about 16 kids. And remember the'' thunder man ''that went around Gosport shaking that peace of tin that sounded like thunder.And ''Eddy
Crossland'' the funeral man that would dive off the top board in the swimming baths and swim under water to the other end and back,he was a big son of a gun, funny man because he
would do that and then get dressed and get back to his office in Forton Rd, I think.lots of other characters that where in Gosport. Ian you can display my e/mail
address. Mick Leech. michael.leech@bigpond.com
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