Top Dog
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some old pictures of Calne
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Top Dog
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Peter Dolman
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old picturesI remember the paper shop in Church Street and you can just make out Maslins bakery. We used to buy bags of stale buns for 3 or 6 old pence for lunch!
Heaths paper shop on the strand where I had a paper round from 1962, delivering to the new estate being built at the end of Bryans Close Road.
I accept its a bit of a cliche but Calne had some really interesting shops before the town gardens were bull dozed to make room for the new road.
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kathy27
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My Grand-dads first lorry, being used for a carnival
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Local lass
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is that any relation to the coal man angel?
spend many a happy afternoon on the green by the river before the libary was there.
its amazing just how much it has changed .i dont remember the gardens im to young i can just remember when you could drive through where the kings arms are.
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kathy27
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yeah, my dad is bob angell, he took over the business from my grand-dad.
Ive only just worked out how to put photo's on here :oops:
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Local lass
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is brian angel any relation to you who plays skittles?
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kathy27
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Yeah Brian is my big brother 
Do you know him?
He used to play football for Calne too.
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Local lass
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yes i do i have played skittles against him.
did he ever deliver coal?
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kathy27
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Yeah he worked for our dad, then when we sold up Brian went to work for the people that brought it, he's still on the coal rounds now.
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Martin Peck
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I remember the stale buns used to sell them at school until I got caught. Used to employ kids to carry them to school for me.
Tina Heath an old Blue Peter presenter was the daughter of the Heaths who owned the book shop. You could make free phone calls from the phonebox on the Strand if you tapped out numbers on the reciever.
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Bear
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| Martin Peck wrote: | I remember the stale buns used to sell them at school until I got caught. Used to employ kids to carry them to school for me.
Tina Heath an old Blue Peter presenter was the daughter of the Heaths who owned the book shop. You could make free phone calls from the phonebox on the Strand if you tapped out numbers on the reciever. |
A school chum of mine, Ken Flynn taught me how to tap out the number on the old cradle type phones in the phone box outside of the old Post Office many years ago.
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Top Dog
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That only worked though providing the number never had a 0 in it :lol:
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Clunk
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It would, cause the number 0 is ten pulses.
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Martin Peck
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I think Ken Flyn taught me as well.
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