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  1. Derby evening telegraph 1950-2000

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    John Brins commented  · 

    Thanks for sharing, this was a real trip down memory lane, I grew up in Derby (1950-1968). Passing the link to other members of my family, I’m sure they will enjoy it too. I lived in Shelton Lock and then off Duffield Road. I went to SL Infants and Juniors then Homelands then Derby Art College Kedlaston Road campus) before going off to Brighton. I only returned for brief spells to visit family after that - I live in Cambridge now.I have fond teenage memories of the Boccaccio coffee bar Market Place, the Locarno Babington Lane, Clouds London Road, Rialto Osmaston Road. Then the Coop cafe and dentist (yuck) in Albert St and Midland Drapery, Thurman And Malin. A great-aunt had a tobacco kiosk in the parade where the GPO was in Victoria St - some time before WW2 her husband was manager of the ABC cinema in East Street. My father worked for Rolls-Royce all his life, his grandfather had a provisions shop in Uttoxeter Old Road and also one in Peartree somewhere but that was before I was born

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  2. Middlesbrough Evening Gazette

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    John Brins commented  · 

    Hi. to every one who knew me when I lived in the community spanning the Council houses’, Deaf Hill and The Colliery from the beginning of the 2nd world war to December 1962 before moving to Belper in Derbyshire to further my career in the mining industry in the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire coalfields.
    I visit the Trimdon Website most days and was very proud to see the Trimdon Brass band parading on Wednesday prior to the miners gala and then at the 125 anniversary in Durham on the Saturday led by an old friend of mine, Jake Elliott ex Drum Major 2nd battalion Scotts Guards.
    It would be nice to have a reunion at the community centre or the Colliery Club for men who worked at Deaf Hill Colliery from the end of the 2nd world war until the closure in 1967 ish. My dad was well known for his commitment and involvement on the parish council in the community and as a N.U.M. official at the pit for many years.
    Congratulations to every one who was involved in the community for organising the special event

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  3. Staffordshire Sentinel

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