b'doing nothing. I used to go to Stan Bailey. Ken was working for Stan then. Then Ken got called up, he went to do his National Service because he was deferred while he did his apprenticeship at Stans. Ken was still making coffins into the 70s. They werent off the peg then, you had to make them and bend them. In fact, he was a good wheelwright, our Ken. They used to make wheels in them days did Baileys. All the spokes were made out of ash with a spoke shave. They had to cut out what they call the naft, that was made of elm. That was before they got a band saw. We always used to call them fellies; it is derivative of fellows as the members of a wheel. But then he got a band saw and he could cut them out with that. Once they made them they used to bool them up to Fishers and Mr Fisher used to have a hoop fire outside. Theyd make the hoop and put it on the fire and put it on the wheel hot. Mr Pottage, Jean Rexs father, Frank, he was the farrier there then. He used to put the hoop on. Baileys men used to help him. Chance MeetingsI remember Jack West who used to come to the village. He was a magician. I was a bit pally with Jack West. He could have been working down at the camp. But it was funny, this, I was on Paddington Station late one night going back from Paddington to the West Country, to Bristol, and who should I meet but Jack West. I hadnt seen him for years. Our house down at No. 13 was home for everybody. It was the tea house. Flora Wilson and Barbara Walker came. And Jean, me cousin, Mrs Franks. And Dolly King, she was a Land Army lass.Malcolm in UniformDollys sister-in-law came to the village from Hullonto the floor. Hed finished with Heather by then. Are during the war with Billy and Arthur and baby Allan.you coming up to the Hotel tonight? he said. I dont They lived in a block of cottages that has gone now.know - Ive three ladies with me tonight, I said! Wilf Cook was in the end one, then Jimmy Keep, thereWhen I was demobbed I decided to have a week was Fred Robinson and Albert Foster, Gordon Fostersin Blackpool before coming home. My mother was dad.furious because I hadnt said anything and I was There was a lad in the village, he used to playexpected home. They didnt know who to contact to in the band, he was a soldier. He married Heatherfind out where I was. I could have gone back to the Lennard. Tony Lennard married Edna Bailey. TheCo-op because they had to keep your job open. But Lennards were at the Chestnuts at one time. Thenthe money was terrible. I kept on getting offers for old Mr Lennard, Richard, went up where Eric Sissonsfarm work, like helping with threshing. I did one and lived, next to Les Lawson. Heather married thisthen another and I worked at Garrowby Lodge Farm musician. He was good on the sax, brilliant. Theyand ended up staying there for 3 years.called him Ross Mackenzie. He used to play in Percy Hicks band. I used to tinkle about on piano a bit andCharlie CullumJeff Jackson used to play the sax. He could really belt out Twelfth Street Rag. I used to like singing that whenMy last memory of Charlie was tucking him in, me I was playing the piano. So, I was in Blackpool in 1949and me dad. Our Ken was on holiday and me dad dancing at the Winter Gardens. I was dancing roundrung me up. I was working for me father-in-law then. and this bloke out of band yelps out, Now then, whatI dont suppose you can come for a couple of days, are you doing here? at the top of his voice. I was withcan you, and give us a hand, Charlies dead. So I did my wife before we were married and she said, Whosand we made coffin. It was late 50s or early 60s. Mrs that bloke, does he know you? I said, Its RossClint was still living, Annie Clints mother, Freda Clints Mackenzie. He dropped his sax and he came downgranny, Harrys mother. He lived at Garrowby Lodge, 80 BULLETIN 6'