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Dave Blower
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Happy birthday to Bobby Macnammara have a great day Bob
28 May 2024
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Dave 62-65 From a Goldonian 1959
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I thought this very apt and funny and a little sad at the same time.
A True Story
IT WAS the Sunday School Anniversary at the Baptist Church. The church was packed with parents and friends who had gone to listen to the children singing, reading, and taking part in the service. As the preacher started to give his sermon he held up a big hold-all bag full of wrapped parcels. He asked one little boy to choose and unwrap a parcel. The child did so, and held up a lovely jewel case. The preacher opened the case and showed the congregation a lovely looking necklace but on closer examination it was discovered that the necklace was very cheap and tawdry and of very little value. The theme of the sermon was 'Things are not always what they seem'.
Next, a little girl chose a tightly wrapped parcel marked 'Treasure', but when she undid it, she discovered an old shoe; The sole and the upper had parted company and the poor shoe looked a sorry sight. There was great amusement in the
congregation as the shoe was held up. The preacher said to the little girl 'That "treasure" isn't any good to anybody, is it?' The little girl looked solemnly at him and said: 'You could give that to our Goldings boys and they could mend it.'
Now she is just a very little girl, but she stood up in front of all those people and in that one sentence had declared her love, her complete trust, belief, and faith in you all. Try never to let her down
D. M. H.
The Goldonian Winter 1959
23 May 2024
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Jennifer Milledge
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GOLDINGS PHOTOS
Dear Dave Blower,
I am preparing a talk for the Hertfordshire Gardens Trust on May 18th 2024, about 18th century Landscape designer Charles Bridgeman. It has been discovered that he designed the early 18th century gardens and canal at Goldings.
I have just found your website and it would be great if I could use some of the images on it for a powerpoint presentation please?
The painting of the house and gardens c. 1804
Photo of the stables
The photos of the steps of the old mansion and possibly the parterre
These photos will not be printed or distributed in any way and I will credit your website when giving the talk.
Also, the talk is not-for profit and the Gardens Trust is a registered charity.
I do hope you will feel able to give me permissions to use these images but will respect your decision.
Kind regards,
Jenny Milledge
Hello Jennifer. It’s always good to find people are interested in Goldings, so it would be a pleasure to give permission for you to display our photos of Goldings from the website, Please take what info and photos you need.
Dave Blower
Goldings 62-65
That’s very kind and much appreciated.
I found your website really interesting and such a useful resource for historians.
Many thanks
Jenny
13 May 2024
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Mal
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Summer is round the corner and we haven’t had spring yet
26 April 2024
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Dave 62-65
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This isn’t really an old boys story but I felt it was an interesting account of Ron’s association with Goldings Boys. I have tried to relate the tale just as Ron told it to me.
I would like to thank him for the permission to print this little anecdote.
Dave
Ron Crawley age 73 yrs 2006
While visiting Hertford for the reunion I went to visit the Museum to take a look at the exhibition of Goldings. Looking around the Museum I bumped into a man, a local boy who had left Hertford, and had come to visit, well you know me I strike up a conversation with anyone, and it happens that this fellow had lived in Hertford as a small boy, and came from a very poor family, he lived at the bottom of the North Road opposite the Mayflower Hotel in a row of small cottages, (all of which are no longer there ) across from The Sele Arms pub.
Across the road from were he lived was a post box were all the Goldings boys came to post there mail, by the side of the
box was a stamp machine.
This story happened in around 1943, and the boy who was name Ron was younger than the Goldings boys.
Ron discovered if he used a flat jack knife and pushed it into the slit were the stamps came out he could ease the stamps out of the machine without paying anything, this he did just after the machine was filled each week or so, then all he had to do was wait alongside the machine for the Goldings boys to come down to post their letters he would then sell the 1/2d stamps 4 for a penny and the 1d stamps for a 1/2d each, and in Ron’s words, “Everyone was a winner the Goldings boys got their stamps half price, and I made a few pennies”.
A couple of weeks later when emptying the machine Ron heard a loud voice say “Ah so that’s how your doing it” It
was the local Bobby, and with that he was taken by the scruff of his neck, and taken home to his parents, but sadly a few similar escapades later Ron was taken into care, and sent away to a Children’s home in Birmingham a couple of doors down from a Barnardo’s boys home. Ron never returned to live in Hertford.
19 April 2024
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