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John Horn 42-45 Dave your reference to another Dr Barnardo home being so close to Goldings brought back a memory I have of a winter night about 1943/44 I was sat outside the office one night with a lad named Lansbury who was on switchboard duty (the telephone cubicle was facing the office)when a call came through from two boys who had done a bunk from the home close to Goldings and they wanted to speak to a boy called Baker, I told Lansbury I had just seen Baker come down the stone staircase just a few minutes ago I said I'll go and call him he cannot be far away,when he came he thought I was going to leg him for using the stairs that was out of bounds at that time in the evening,but when he realised he was wanted on the phone he was quite happy to take the call and spent some time talking to his old mates from the home I can only assume that was the one that Reg went to. A message for Brian sorry to hear you have not been to well my friend hope you will be feeling better soon. Thanks Ellen for laying the poppy wreath at bench on behalve of all Golding old boys and their families. John Horn 1942-45 14 November 2012 - Manchester Dave Hello Reg and family, many thanks for your reply, like most of us our memory of events sometime's get muddled, I could only remember two names of boys from Goldings and I was there much later than you! Getting back to the Brass Band and Cadet Band, Mr Embleton taught the Band and played the Clarinet and Skipper Culver ran the Cadets Band. Your book was brilliant and I read it twice in case I overlooked anything. All the time I was at Goldings I didn't know there was another Barnardo home down the road from us! but we all remember Woolworths with affection!!! mine was a portable radio to listen to the Beatles and others from the 60's, listened to Ali beating Sonny Liston on our "coggy" Many thanks for your favourable recollections because thats was how I also found it. A Merry Xmas from us all, to you and your family, perhaps one day we may meet, Dave and all Goldings Old Boys. Finis Coronat Opus! 13 November 2012 John Sansom12 46-49 Hi Dave Very sorry to hear Brian isnt very well I do hope you are soon feeling better, very best wishes John 13 November 2012 - Hertford Alan Dearman>>>>1955-59 Nat. Council Dave, Just read the e-mail from Reg. I am still reading his book and what a hard time he had in his early Barnardo days. If anyone should have a chip on his shoulder, it is he, but instead, he is a credit to Barnardos and especially Goldings. I have a number of copies in my possesion which I take to my presentations around the country and have already sold a few copies. You will be interested to know that it will be publisized again the the next issue of the Guild messenger with the hope of selling more copies. If anyone does not know what to give a relative or friend for Christmas, What better than a copy of "Suffer Little Children" 13 November 2012 - Melton Mowbray Email received today Reg Longman Hello Dave It's been several months since we connected and you forwarded David Wheatley's email address to me. David and myself exchanged some very interesting letters and he was very impressed with my book. I always felt a deep respect towards his father, even though I received my share of 'cuts', defaults and fines. I don't doubt I deserved everything I got. Just imagine the daunting responsibility it must have been, for Pinhead to control so many staff and as well, 240 teenage boys. I can only believe that we must have been a reasonably manageable bunch of boys or should I say 'teen aged terrors", now that I come to think about it. I have watched the Goldings DVD you kindly sent me Dave, and found it very interesting. It spans a great many years, even to the time when the school band was a brass band. I believe the film was made long before I attended Goldings and again after I had left. The CD too is also very good. The bugle band generally sounds just great. I noticed, that over the years some of the marching tunes had changed a little, but as I say, it all sounds very good and brings back great memories. I was, for perhaps a year or so, the silver bugler. I've placed the Goldings badge you sent me beside the other Goldings paraphernalia I have kept over the years, in my display table - a kind of coffee table or display case with a glass top - fortunately I trained as a cabinet maker at Goldings and although I didn't practise cabinet making for a living, I'm reasonably good at working with wood. 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