response in story 17
Hi Peter Hi Pat...long
time since we used to avoid cross country runs together. I must congratulate
you on the site ... it's great.
By the way, why couldn't you remember my first name? Shocking. I thought we
were good friends. You may wish to try and find Paul Garlick, who in 1974 -
1975 worked as a sales clerk in the sales department at Tyzack Sons and Turner,
Little London Road. I was the Personnel Manager there. There were also a couple
of other ex-Rowlie's there too - Watkinson, who I have seen from time to time
in the Heeley area of Sheffield and another guy who for the life of me I can't
remember his name...I have seen him too in the same area of Sheffield, not too
long ago.
In the 70s Paul Garlick was living in the Charnock Area of Sheffield (Charnock
Drive, I think) and about three years ago I met him in the street and he was
still in the same house. Mind you I have lived in my family home in Sheffield
since 1975.
Brian Wood was working for Sheffield Council in the housing department last
time I saw him (1980).
Kevin McCabe (your photgraph) once beat me up for talking to his girlfriend
at a youth club (I didn't even know who she was until after the beating... then
I became friends with both Kevin and the girlfriend, Linda Glaves). Anyway,
Kevin is now a multi-millionnaire builder (Linda's dad owned a building firm
at the top of Scarsdale Road - Willliams Builders) and Kevin is a main board
director of Sheffield United FC.
I think Paul Madley died in about 1988. I remember reading that he had died,
and when I commented my colleague at work said that she was his cousin, and
that he had indeed been an ex-Rowlie. Paul lived at Darnell and he and Bill
Antcliff, who lived at 22 Richmond Park Avenue, Handsworth were big mates. Geoff
Torr lives at North Anston, I am told. My mum told me that. She knows the family.
I went to junior school with Geoff.
Ralph Lee became a teacher. John Brennan (geograhy teacher...see below) told
me he had spoken to Ralph in a petrol station on Abbeydale Road about a year
before I last spoke to John (1980). John was living at Beauchief, near to where
you used to live, Pat.
One of the old Rowlies from 1965 - 71 works in the Sports Centre at the Norton
College - Mick Bunting. He became a teacher at the school. He's now a supervisor
in the Graves sports centre.
In 1980, I was at the Poly as I said, and Pop Otley, John Brennan, Spike Godfrey
and Percy Snowden were lecturers at the Totley site of the Poly. As the Poly
was making a number of redundancies I had to interview them. At the end of the
process they all decided to take early retirement, although I was amazed how
relatively young they were. Mick Bunting told me subsequently, that Percy Snowden
had died of a heart attack. Which of the teachers can you remember......Bumble
Simpson (woodwork), Rowley (music), Holy Joe Hay, Rutherford (Maths), oh my
god, I can't remember. Etchells (english). Straw Balls , I mean Mr Haycock (PE),
and then who was the other PE teacher who lived at Coal Aston? The English teacher
we had as a form teacher also lived at Coal Aston.
My wife's cousin Tony Kitchen, was at the school. He's two years older than
me. He's now MD of a company in Sheffield. I'll ask Val to let me have his address,
when I remember
Best regards
Stuart