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Members' Lounge => Help Centre => Topic started by: Micox on March 06, 2011, 08:23:54 pm
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$walesflag$Looking for Brian. Back in the old days when we had a valuably informative forum, there was a school photo (Lloyd Street, Llandudno). On that photo were a couple of good mates, Brian and Clive Sweet. Now Clive and his wife are working on an art project based on the photo and Clive has asked me if I can get Brian's address because he wants to get in touch with him to ask him if he knows the names of the rest of the youngsters in that photo.
Can anyone please help?
Heddwch.
Mike. $thanx$
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Back in the old days when we had a valuably informative forum,
Sorry?
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http://threetownsforum.co.uk/forum/index.php?action=media;sa=media;in=345;preview (http://threetownsforum.co.uk/forum/index.php?action=media;sa=media;in=345;preview)
would it be this photo which is on page three of the "People" album on the photo gallery ?
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Thanks Suepp
Yes, that's the one.
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))* So can anyone please tell me how to contact 'Brian?' $thanx$
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If only you'd looked in the Photo Gallery first, Micox..... ;)
http://threetownsforum.co.uk/forum/index.php?action=media (http://threetownsforum.co.uk/forum/index.php?action=media)
Is not Brian the forum member known as Hugo or is this a different Brian?
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Back in the old days when we had a valuably informative forum,
In the meantime, I wonder if you could expand on exactly what you meant by that, Micox? D'you feel the current forum is in some way inadequate, perhaps?
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Hi Mike, it's such a long time since those days (about 54 years :o ) but these are the names of the people in the photo that I can remember. Those that I can't remember either their full name or surname I have put as a question mark.
Back Row left to right
Headmaster Mr Williams, Anthony Wood, Elwyn Williams, Brian Roberts, Barry Gartside, Peter Millican, Billy Cassidy, Brian Hughes, Stuart Fenton, Brian Melia, John Priddle, Kenny Cooper, Form teacher Mrs Edwards.
Middle row left to right
Trevor Williams, Wyn Griffin, Ian Mellor (?), Graham Bullen, Donald ? , Margaret Conway, Cynthia Pritchard, Peter Griffiths, Barry Winfield, Jeff Hansen, ? ,Clive Sweet.
Front row left to right
Margaret Lewis, ? , Pat McKewan, Susan Noble, ? , Pat Williams, Angela Jones, Janice Morton, Catherine Bailey, Sheila Brown.
Sitting in front left to right
Howard Sutcliffe, Ian Gadd, Alun Jones.
Hope that this helps Clive with his project.
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$thanx$ Hugo/Brian!
Why I said this: Back in the old days when we had a valuably informative forum,
is because the old forum was full of information that could be invaluable to the recording of any social histories which focus on the common people as distinct from the majority which only record events and personalities to do with the elite. One obvious example was the 'where are they now' list of characters who were an indispensable part of Llandudno history.
While I fully understand that no one here is culpable for the loss of all that information, the new forum, while being a good forum, bears no comparison.
Respectfully.
Mike. $3towns$
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Mike, I've modified my list as I cannot remember the lad to the left (on photo ) of Clive and missed it out when I did the list. I remember him well but his name escapes me for now!
Another senior moment I'm afraid. :-[
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One obvious example was the 'where are they now' list of characters who were an indispensable part of Llandudno history
Perhaps Dave or Ian could transfer the thread over from the old forum?
The Celestial City thread that Mike started.....would that be transferable too?
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While I fully understand that no one here is culpable for the loss of all that information, the new forum, while being a good forum, bears no comparison.
We do have access to all the old forum threads that were not hacked / burned / destroyed / lost or other wise sabotaged, Micox, so we can always trawl them for what you might want. However, this forum was not established primarily as a research tool for historians and social history aficionados, but rather as a meeting place for anyone who has an interest in the area, and what it becomes and how it develops is entirely in the hands of the members.
No doubt you can contribute a lot, since you presumably have both an interest in the topic and a lot of information that you garnered from the previous forum?
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The problem is that threads aren't stored as threads in the old Forum database - if they were, it would be easy to move them over. Posts are stored individually in one massive list and only a numeric reference is made to the thread it is in, it's a horrendous task to find anything even when using a search function. I'll happily post the entire list of old posts if someone wants to pick through it and pull out interesting bits.
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Is it worth using the bandwidth? You'll finish up like the Encyclopaedia Brittanica! L0L
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We have unlimited bandwidth, so that's not the problem. It's backup and loading that will eventually prove slower than many might like if we were to reproduce absolutely everything from the old forum. And, truth be told, I'm not sure there's sufficient demand for it. It's going to take Dave a lot of time today to upload what he is, and how many will really read what he's taken the trouble to transfer? My own thoughts are moving toward the idea of storing all the old material elsewhere on the site, so those with a real interest can ferret about, but keep it separate from this forum.
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I think it would be great if you could do that, because people with research interests may only visit the site a few times to find out what they want but that information is then there for others to look at at any time, and like the old forum it will eventually become a mine of information that can be added to at any time.
i would love to be able to unearth old threads such as the "snippets" one *&(
We could also become a first port of call for anyone with specific queries. You can see by the Genealogy threads that people very often get the answers they need from forum members, especially Hugo who will go to the archives to do lookups. That's invaluable for those who live far away.
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Okay; that sounds like a good way forward. I'll talk to Dave, and probably what will happen is that we'll create a section of the man site specifically for the old forum database, which anyone can browse without having to visit this forum. If we include links there, they'll also be directed to us in here if they need more details.
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Thank you for all your hard work Ian - and Dave ££$
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Ta!
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Yes, $thanx$
Y^^Y
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>>> Hello people. Got this from Clive:
I think the boy next to me is Brian Jarvis. However, Di said that Brian Hughes wouldn't have forgotten someone with the same first name as him so now I'm wondering if it's Graham Jarvis, and also whether Brian just omitted him accidentally.
Could you please ask Brian about this, and I'm also wondering where he lives because I'd really like to make contact with him now I'm back in the area.
Don't know why Clive doesn't come on here himself now (he's a current GlanConwyite) but I'm happy to be an envoy. $lol$
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Hi Mike,
I'm afraid that it is so long ago I cannot put a name to the boy standing between Clive and Jeff Hansen and that is why I put a ? there.
The name Graham Jarvis seems vaguely familiar but not Brian Jarvis but I just cannot remember. We were in Form 3 so it's more likely to be about 55 years ago not 54 as I put before.
I've also had doubts about the third boy from the left in the middle row. At first I was convinced that it was Ian Mellor but looking at the photo again he reminds me of Roger Marsden who I was in class with at one time when I was in Lloyd Street.
Roger's parents had Marsden's Sweet Shop in Madoc Street and Clive would know whether it was Roger or Ian.
All the others I've named are correct though.
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Talking of looking for people... are they still looking for the landlord of Y Bont pub in Conwy? That went very quiet?
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Talking of looking for people... are they still looking for the landlord of Y Bont pub in Conwy? That went very quiet?
Yes, what happened with that?
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A curtain of silence has descended on the subject. Most odd.
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Nobody in Conwy has heard anything either. He's still missing. The Bridge now has a new Landlord. I couldn't understand why people who went missing in South Wales got a mention on the news but not Justin?
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Z**I tried this in the old forum just before it switched to the current format without a result, so here goes again. Does anybody have any info on the following people:
1. E D Jones (Eddie) aged 64. Lived in Ty Isa Road. His brother sold fish etc from a cart, his father was 'Ted' a boatman who died on the promenade where his memorial stands. I joined the Navy with Eddie, after his service he was a PC in the Shrewsbury area. I do know his Dad remarried and Eddie inherited some sisters.
2. Paul and Ian Bothom, Paul worked as an electrician with Tommy Hughes early 60s. His brother (my pal) worked as an apprentice book binder in Conway. He emigrated to Oz on his own aged 16 as a £10 pom. His best mate Tommy Atherton was supposed to follow him after he'd finished his plumbing apprenticeship. did he? Their Dad was the manager of Woolworths early 60s.
3. Finally, Billy Baskerville. His Dad was the Landlord of the Carlton early 60s. They moved to Manchester 1963. Billy also joined the Navy at a later date.
If you have any info it will be much appreciated. This may start a new thread of all the boys and girls that left Llandudno to see the world without paying!!! As the recruiting sergeant (Royal Marine) said to me ' we always get good lads from Llandudno' Thanks everyone!
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I knew all of the people you have mentioned Tony but I'm afraid that I can't help you with locating them. I last saw Ian Botham riding his motor bike down Conway Road with no crash helmet on. (not compulsory in those days) so he must have gone to Oz soon after that.
I was thinking of going there to play football and work for the club but when I found out that my friend Ray Breeze had been conscripted into the Australian Army and drafted into the Vietnamese war I soon changed my mind about going.
I suppose Ian would have been conscripted into the Army too.
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Hello tonyf.
>>> Going round in circles. Eddie's father must have been Ted Jones 'R ogo. of whom there was screeds of information on the forum at one time. Ted's son Johnny was also a fisherman well known on the prom. This Jones family was really a whole tribe (or two) which originated in mid wales - Llanwyddelan (Anne Jones, Ted's Nain); Llanfair Caereinion (John Jones, Ted's Taid). They migrated from Welshpool to Llandudno in the mid 1870s. Ted's mother was Miriam 'R ogo - famed in the annals of Llandudno and a whole book in herself.
However, of Eddie I have no idea. :rage: