Reg, Hi – trust you are weathering ‘Lockdown3’ OK? I’ve been caught in the ‘over 65’ trawl-net so am booked for my first Covid jab at the N&N tomorrow. There IS light at the end of the tunnel – not just a train coming in the opposite direction! I have at long last got around…
Month: February 2021
The Jolly Tilers: A Secret Society?
I have been passed an intriguing piece of paper from the estate of the late Jim Curtis. It seems that on 1 May 1975 he attended a meeting of The Jolly Tilers convened at The Maids Head Hotel, Norwich. 17 were in attendance — some from CCTA. Names minuted were Cedric Dickens, Bill Houldsworth, Jim…
Atlantic House, 1971
By John Wellington Wells I ought to begin with an apology: I now work for the organisation that demolished Atlantic House and replaced it with a functional but anonymous post-modern slab. (Nobody asked me about this, let me say.) Not that the old Atlantic House was a thing of beauty, but it had a certain…
Geoffrey Thomas Dickinson 1935–2021
Eastern Daily Press dated 6 February carried this family notice. Geoff joined HMSO Norwich in August 1975 and was subsequently promoted to Senior Messenger (Support Band 1). His wife June was also a messenger in Sovereign House and Saint Crispins.