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Attention Brockett.
« on: August 19, 2022, 11:14:15 »
On my only evening (or it could have been the morning, I was delirious with the covids)during my recent Welsh mission The Great Man (Brockett), recounted a story about Jimmy Greaves' Dad being a train driver at the same depot as Brockett.

This morning I spotted photographic evidence.
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Re: Attention Brockett.
« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2022, 11:43:38 »
Super sleuthing there TLP  showing that not everything I say is borrocks.
I never met 'Motorman' Greaves as he had retired before I first worked there as a crew manager in 1988.
However I did meet Jimmy a few times in the early 1990's when he walked his dog along the River Chelmer where I spent some time fishing.

Is the magazine dated january 1967 ?
The monthly magazine cost us three pence. All is wonderfull sepia and mostly about busses which employed far more people than the trains.
Needlesss to say that, being a rebel, I mostly didn't buy it. 12 times 3d was 3 shillings a year or 15 pence in this new money.

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