calling jenny!, whatshrew, diamond geezer, manfeelings etc

where are you all? and hands off ford bowling club,i understand they are to build a motel on it. aj played bowls there 61 years ago!

 

Doesn't Jake King own Ford Bowling club?

 

Yes Jake has put in planning permission to build a motel on the bowling green site. Being brought up within the crown green bowling empire of Shrewsbury I know what a huge blow this will be to the Players & the bowls league.were you a keen bowler AJ, did you play for a team ?

 

His pub is sat right next to a field, surely he could try to buy that and put a motel on it? Far better than peeing off all if the locals in the village.

 

And to think he was my hero in the early 80's

 

aj has played indoor bowling, but i loved watching crown green bowling, especially when it was televised, i recall the waterloo cup from blackpool when commentater would decry frying tonight tom has got a panful. those little comments have fascinated me for years. eh oop frying tonight! how i would like to use that expression about the shrews!

 

I once played on the Waterloo green at Blackpool as a 15 year old impersonating my much older aunty who was ill & couldn't go I didn't score many & kept forgetting to answer to the name of Barbara!!

 

I'm sorry but i have passed ford bowling green many times (having grown up in fords heath), and i have never seen anyone actually playing bowls on it...

to be honest thinking of ford makes me want a fry up from dinkys dinah... im pretty sure even after being abroad for a few years dicky would still know me as mr davies' lad...

 

Whereabouts did you live?

 

MF is alive and kicking, chilling to a bit of Coldplay. As for Dinky's Diner, well my old man had a cheeseburger there practically hours before I was born when he was driving to Royal Shrews hospital. Says everything about his faith in the place

As for bowls, we had lessons in Primary school

 

roger we copy that cheeseburger. welcome back mf!

 

I was by the post box next to the chapel..left in 05..how about you?

 

Seriously? You must have lived pretty much next door to me, the chapel's right next to our house with a postbox just outside our drive! Moved in 1999, so it can't be the same house, but it must have been the house the other side of the chapel - currently occupied by a very friendly old couple called Fred and Betty.

 

Yeah, you moved in after the wilkes moved out, you must be mr best...?

 

Correct. I was two when we moved though; so Mr Best the younger!

 

ah, fair play, i went to school with becky.. think i was a year or 2 older though... was a long time ago..

 

Oh right, is it Jason then? I can't quite remember... Small world, anyway.