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Dave 62-65
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Happy birthday to our Golden girl (Bluenose) Jean Clark.
Have a lovely day Jean
10 June 2024
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Dave 62-65
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Not D Day Bob, but a paragraph from a Goldonian
The outbreak of War at Goldings 1939
Those O1d Boys who have not been to Goldings since War was declared, would perhaps like to know what effect the War has had on those who are still here. Apart from the first fortnight, when everybody was rushing about, filling sandbags, digging sick bay dugouts and extra trenches, life goes on much about the same. It was during this fortnight that we experienced our first air raid warning and it came in the middle of the night.
This, however, proved to be a false alarm. The next alarm was sounded when everybody could almost taste their breakfast, at 6.45 am. to be precise. I had the impression that the boys enjoyed this latter experience, partly due, perhaps, to the 'wacking out' of chocolate in the trenches and partly due to the fact that shops did not open until 10 am. Whatever the reason, however, the evacuation to the trenches was a great success without a sign of panic.
Now a word to those boys who one hears complaining about a War being on, when different restrictions are enforced they are for your own good and safety, so use a little more common sense, and try to assist those who are responsible for your happiness and safety.
7 June 2024
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Bobby Mac
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It’s D Day how many of our boys went there and how many did not come back.
Will we ever know.
6 June 2024
- Tamworth
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John Horn 42-45 (who remembers John)
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1943, one Monday when we arrived in shop we were told a lorry was arriving and we had to unload it, so a large shed behind the tinsmiths shop was cleaned out.
The lorry came and we started to unload, it was wooden crates, we carried them in the shed and placed them end to end on the floor, I suppose they must have weighed about 56lbs, working from the back we worked forward to build steps until the stack was to the roof, about 4 lorry loads, every day for a week.
With the first load an official man dressed in a posh suit arrived and ticked off each crate as they were carried in and instructed us in the way they had to be stacked, there was no label on the crates to what they were, and that info wasn’t coming from Harold DeBoeck, or the suit, so being Goldings boys on the 2nd day of the unloading we decided that action had to be taken to find out what was in the crates, so one boy would trip and drop a crate making sure it hit the ground with a force so it burst open, to reveal its contents bingo! Mystery solved (tins of salmon). It seems there were about 24 tins in each crate; they were for the people of Europe, when we started the second front to liberated them.
There was quite a number of these food stores up and down the country at that time (we put up with rationing).
The following spring one Saturday evening the shed next to the food store caught fire it contained bales of straw and soon was burning fiercely spreading to near by buildings, one was the garage with Goldings lorry inside, Mr Mills was sent to get the lorry out pronto to the cheers of the boys.
The fire brigade arrived from Hertford, it was soon under control, but the food store was slightly burned.
Monday morning the suit turned up to inspect the damage and decided the crates would be moved, so the
tinsmiths boys were told again to put the crates on to the lorries that came for them.
I never got the chance to nick a tin of salmon, (just as well for didn’t I get a rollicking off Harold DeBoeck for tripping with the crate that burst open yes it was I who was nominated to drop the crate).
5 June 2024
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Bobby Mac
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Thank you for the card from Dave and Mel and all the Goldings old boy 21 again lol
28 May 2024
- Tamworth
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