Many U.K. Members Here?

MRC

Where from? Wals'l and Wolv'rampton me.

Turpinr

I think it was the Cavendish before the other 2 names but not sure

Gav1967

Tipton born and bred. Parents and immediate family all still there. I moved away for work reasons and never managed to get back

MRC

Don't say you are in Penn? I lived there for seven years.

Gav1967

Tipton born and bred. Parents and immediate family all still there. I moved away for work reasons and never managed to get back

MRC

I worked in Tipton early '70s at Wellington Tube Works, by then owned by British Steel. Now a shopping center -- but what isn't?

tikkathree

Cavendish Club was part of the redevelopment of the old covered market: shops on the ground floor, a car park at first floor and above, the town hall in a new tower block and the Cav' in a big box. My memory is of the whole thing being clad in white tiles which were a right transformation from the old smoke stained millstone grit facades.

I saw Tommy Cooper at the Cav' and laughed like a mad thing. I think there might have been a casino in there originally. Happy days eh?

Still can't remember the name of the dance hall on the Blackburn/Darren boundary: it was a privately owned affair set in a big bungalow.

Alpha

After searching with some trepidation 😁 it appears that our bloodline is from the island of Islay which i am really happy to learn.
I can vaguely remember my father probably about sixty years ago telling me tales of visiting the family croft every summer and one summer they spent most of the holiday painting the small fishing boat only to return the following summer to find that the old bug*er had sold the boat 😀

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islay

Turpinr

Either a shopping centre, a housing estate or in the case of the factory i served my apprenticeship at, a museum 😡