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The Grand Opening #5

...ear). The band would be setting up in the Ballroom and the caterers would be putting the finishing touches to the tables. As the evening commenced my friend and I would usually go round selling raffle tickets which would be drawn later on that night. A lot of the guests were middle aged and the men would always ask us girls to sit on their knee while they sorted out the tickets. It seems unreal now but these were different times – if we were shy and tried to say no, they coerced us into doing it making out there was no harm done! Generally though it was good fun and in one of the side rooms there would be a disco for the younger guests. We used to hang a para...

Moving On #35

...e for the bands who played at our club. He was also involved in band management and most of our lives have revolved around music related events and festivals, among other things. After starting a family we moved to a village in Leicestershire. When I became pregnant with my first child I went to see my mum, who was thrilled to bits, and thus started the long process of building a mother/daughter relationship again. We actually became good friends with her and she was always interested in everything we got up to and very supportive of all our ventures! She left the Hall in 1989 and moved to a nearby village to pursue her hobbies and interests, including painting...

The Grand Opening #5

...ear). The band would be setting up in the Ballroom and the caterers would be putting the finishing touches to the tables. As the evening commenced my friend and I would usually go round selling raffle tickets which would be drawn later on that night. A lot of the guests were middle aged and the men would always ask us girls to sit on their knee while they sorted out the tickets. It seems unreal now but these were different times – if we were shy and tried to say no, they coerced us into doing it making out there was no harm done! A New Year's Eve Ball in the 1970s   Generally though it was good fun and in one of the side rooms there would be a disco fo...

More Tea Vicar? #12

...of her husband who had died the previous year. It was generally regarded as one of the finest Victorian churches in the country and was known locally as the “Cathedral of the Midlands”. It was indeed a huge church (for a village) and always open to the public so we would sometimes go and have a look inside. On one occasion there was no-one around so Gavin and I lit all the candles in the church as we thought it looked really pretty and brightened the place up a bit. Oh dear – that was definitely not the right thing to do! A strongly worded letter was sent to my dad from the vicar telling him in no uncertain terms that he should be disciplining his children...

The Grand Opening #5

...ear). The band would be setting up in the Ballroom and the caterers would be putting the finishing touches to the tables. As the evening commenced my friend and I would usually go round selling raffle tickets which would be drawn later on that night. A lot of the guests were middle aged and the men would always ask us girls to sit on their knee while they sorted out the tickets. It seems unreal now but these were different times – if we were shy and tried to say no, they coerced us into doing it making out there was no harm done! A packed ballroom on New Year's Eve   Generally though it was good fun and in one of the side rooms there would be a disco f...

See you in Court #27

...ed with a band who regularly supported The Jam so he was often travelling around the country with them. Piers had been sent to a local boarding school so we saw even less of him than before. My mum continued to live in the West Wing apartment and was now seeing the singer who sang at the banquets. My dad sat on his own most nights with only the parrot for company. When he found out about the singer it started a fresh load of outbursts from him as he now felt that my mum and her admirer were trying to take his house and business off him! He constantly ranted on about it and often threatened to shoot the singer with his gun – I don’t think he would have done b...