A collection of autobiographical stories, mainly of the          

    Black Country” where I spent the better part of my life

                                                                                   Trevor Sidaway

         They were written for my family especially for my granddaughter

                                              Jasmin Leila Sidaway

 

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                    1931                         1951                     1954                                                 2006

                  

                                                                                                             

 

 

 

 

 

 

              “Infantile”                    “nubile”                                 “senile”

 

 


                 Memories of a National Serviceman--1952/54  

                                                             at Blandford, Bordon and Gibraltar)

 

                   Better than the Bahamas  at Governors Cottage Camp, Gibraltar

 

                           Playing Trains with Prince Charles  and Princess Anne

 

                                        More about the Rock Model Trainset

 

                                         Resting in Tangier at the El Farhar

 

                                            Football in Gibraltar (Part one)

 

                                            Football in Gibraltar (Part two)

 

                                  Keeping the Laundry going and other Sports

 

                                                     The REME Badge

 

                                                Back to the Drawing Board

                               (National Service haunts in Gibraltar re-visited after 56 years)

 

                                                                     

 

                        An Engineering Apprentice--1947/52

                              at the British-Thomson Houston Company

 

                                Dudley Junior Tech and early  days at the BTH

 

       The Apprenticeship schemes into the Machine Shop and the vision Mary Gadd

 

                                                      Girls  Girls  Girls

 

                       Into the Millwrights, the  Toolroom and the Cannon  Dynasty

 

                                    The Planning Department Final test and Sport

 

                                   Dudley Senior Tech and my Fellow Apprentices

 

                                        BTH Site at Blackheath Demolished in 2010

 

 

 


                 Hop Picking at the Dumbleton              I Spy with My Little Eye

 

              A Black Country Tenor                 Black Country Bookmakers

 

                   The Gibraltar Football Association—its Golden Years  

                           

 

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