A Woolaston pub trip
Courtesy of: Roland Horne. Uploaded:
An Alvington pub trip.
1
John Grail, 2 Johnny Williams (bus driver), 3 Jim Collier, 4 Gordon Dorrington,
5 Dave Vaughan, 6 John Jones , 7 Mr Williams, 8 Fred
Beables,
9 Bill Rhead (landlord),
10 Albert Ball, 11 Len Tilbury, 12 Ted Ball, 13 Harry Grail, 14 Ron
Rees, 15 George Dorrington, 16 Jack Guest, 17 ?, 18 Cyril Vaughan,
19 Ron Jones, 20 Jess Knight, 21 Len Page, 22 Frank Eagles, 23 Les Hoskins,
24 Percy Mayo, 25 Lubrisham Yankowicz ('Yanto'),
26 Les Rees, 27 George Cook, 28 ?, 29 'Scoter' Davies, 30 Charlie/Bill?
Page, 31 ?, 32 Jim Prosser, 33 ?, 34 Stan Grail,
35 ?,
36 Tom Clarke,
37 Bill Stinchcombe,
38
Casper C.S. (Jim)
Prakel
Roland wrote (Sept 2007): "I am enclosing an a photo of a pub-trip (probably the Rising Sun, Woolaston/Netherend). Casper C.S (Jim) Prakel is standing in the back row, on far right hand side".
Barry Jones added (October 2007): "Johnny Williams used to drive
coaches for Willetts of Yorkley, note the uniform jacket and PSV
badge in the lapel. Johnny also lived on the roadside between
Woolaston Common and Woolaston Woodside he also drove the local bus between
Woolaston and Lydney".
"Yanto - I think that this nickname was adopted because the locals found
his proper
name hard to pronounce,
he was originally from Poland and his trade was a shoemaker (very handy for the
villagers at the time)".
"Bill Page, used to keep the Railway Inn Lydney".
John Grail recalled (October 2007) a trip organised by the Globe at Alvington. The bus took them to Cardiff, they then took a 'steamer' to Weston (Super Mare). On the return trip, the steamer demolished the landing jetty and the party had to leave the ship using rope ladders!. John thinks that the trip shown in the photo above was to Torquay and may have also included some customers from the Carpenters Arms at Hewesfield (now closed). The photo was taken by Gordon Morse.
HSJ Warren added (October 2007): "Definitely
the Rising Sun. Bill Rhead had not moved from the 'Sun' to the 'Globe'
in 1952 and the majority on the
pic were dart players from
the 'Sun' A and B teams. Old Mr Williams was a founder member of the Woolaston & District
Crib league. He lived nearby, and you would never have got him to the Globe!.
Also John Jones was in the army in 1952 but of course he could have been
on leave and in civvies".
HSJ also added (Jan 2008): "Managed to show this pic. of the pub trip to
Johnny Jones who categorically states that the trip was from the Rising
Sun Woolaston Common as he remembers the suit he is wearing in the
pic - just purchased from Bradley's in Lydney (made to measure) on
his demob in 1953.
Thanks also to Dave Powell and H J Warren.
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