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sorry bandy shouldnt have put it like that you obviously love our town as i do,and you are entitled to your opinion,i lived in marion street,not too far from you.

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I used to go to the Tech College in 1959 as well i was on day release also ,The princeible was a guy with the same name as Evertons manger (Moyes)been called to his room a few times
The records i remember at the cafe were the Everleys & Buddy
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One of my pals was called Charlie Eson he was on Tranmeres books
but did not reach great fame great guy fullof fun

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Originally Posted by Tatey
I used to go there for lunch from from day release at the Tech College in about 1959. Top record on juke box was Little Eva, Do the Locomotion!


Little Eva's Do The Locomotion wasn't released until 1962.


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Originally Posted by Spellbinder
Originally Posted by Tatey
I used to go there for lunch from from day release at the Tech College in about 1959. Top record on juke box was Little Eva, Do the Locomotion!


Little Eva's Do The Locomotion wasn't released until 1962.

Must have been a really long course...

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I went to the Tech as well in 1959/60 as part of my apprenticeship. The Principal then was Charles Victor Vinton Fenton. Known as "Vince". Attention to detail and good manners was his forte. Very much "Old School". You didn't mess around when Vince was on the prowl !

Maybe Vince had just started in '59. Don't recall Moyes at all.

Happy days nevertheless.

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I was there 1961-1966. I remember Vince Fenton - you're right, he was a stickler.

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Originally Posted by Spellbinder
Originally Posted by Tatey
I used to go there for lunch from from day release at the Tech College in about 1959. Top record on juke box was Little Eva, Do the Locomotion!


Little Eva's Do The Locomotion wasn't released until 1962.


Must have been another song then!

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I also remember the name Vince Fenton he may have come after Moyes .I left the college i think in Sept 1959 to join the
merchant navy .I was an army dodger ,i went to the tech for quite a few years
They used to have an end of term dance at the Kingsland,
We used to go and get bevied in the pub just further down the
road i think it was a Threlfalls house
Got chucked out of the dance for scrapping once ,me and
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C.V.Vinten Fenton was certainly Principal from 1951 to 1957, according to my 'Reports'. No. I'm not going to show them!
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You are correct i have just checked some of my reports & certificates & Vince Fentons name is on them
I can only think then that Moyes was head of a department
I was taking engineering at the time, anybody got any ideas
I dont think i am loosing my marbles yet?

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Yes Mr Moyes was head of a department, think he was originaly a draughtsman in ship construction. I do know he lived in parkhill road and his wife was a school governer at Prenton Secondary which was renamed Devonshire park {the original name been temple road school}


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I was doing Radio & TV Servicing & I only remember one instructor that used to get the same train as I did from Wallasey Grove Road, but don't remember his name.

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Originally Posted by Davey_Martin
ps: i remember the pyramids openin too lol... dont ask me wot was there before tho

Before the Pyramids were built there was a church called St.Johns, the road came down from Grange Road and went round either side of the church and was called Huskisson Street.

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Originally Posted by AX_125
I Remember there being loads of ponds there.

Does anyone remember the old Co-Op where Asda is on the Woodchurch?

I am pretty sure you used to park on the roof their aswell

But before that it was the Co-Operative Laundry, when the co-op opened there as a store the fixings could still be seen in the floor from the machines

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Originally Posted by spinking
who remebers the bingo (rank i think) shows my age and when asda was 2-p for the trolly and tramps like me used to offer to take it back

And the fact there was 2 bus stops the 3 to and the other one to the ford and so on

Also i cant remember what the cin used to be

the cinema was called the Ritz

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