29-Aug-2003, 06:30 AM
My wife's uncle, Lambert Ryding, was a coach driver for Scout Motors, out of the Starchouse Square garage. He used to drive the Preston - London service, which was a combined operation with Standerwick. The job he liked the most was as the driver for Preston North End FC, which he did for probably 30 years or more.
When my wife and I were married, in August 1968 (it's our ruby wedding next year) the ceremony was at Turpin Green Methodist Church and the reception at Park Hall (now some major theme park whose name escapes me). In the late 60's, a lot of folks still didn't have a car. Lambert "borrowed" a Scout single decker coach to transport about 35 guests from the church to the reception. We have movie film showing the coach parked in a side street jus up the hill from the church.
David - my apprenticeship had a similar component, learning to weld in the locomotive side of Strand Road. I spent time in the plating shop on the aircraft side and on various boring assignments "watching Jim do his job" . I got into major trouble when I found a wall phone that connected to Warton and started making a half dozen calls a day to friends "on the outside". There was a rather snotty first-line manager who tried to stop me doing that and took a very dim view of me telling him to go play with himself!
frank Damp
When my wife and I were married, in August 1968 (it's our ruby wedding next year) the ceremony was at Turpin Green Methodist Church and the reception at Park Hall (now some major theme park whose name escapes me). In the late 60's, a lot of folks still didn't have a car. Lambert "borrowed" a Scout single decker coach to transport about 35 guests from the church to the reception. We have movie film showing the coach parked in a side street jus up the hill from the church.
David - my apprenticeship had a similar component, learning to weld in the locomotive side of Strand Road. I spent time in the plating shop on the aircraft side and on various boring assignments "watching Jim do his job" . I got into major trouble when I found a wall phone that connected to Warton and started making a half dozen calls a day to friends "on the outside". There was a rather snotty first-line manager who tried to stop me doing that and took a very dim view of me telling him to go play with himself!
frank Damp
Frank Damp (wife Eileen, nee Nixon)
Leyland resident 1941-1965, emigrated to the US in 1968,
retired to Anacortes, Washington State, USA in 1999.
Leyland resident 1941-1965, emigrated to the US in 1968,
retired to Anacortes, Washington State, USA in 1999.