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This week’s Pictures from the Past
Friday 17th July 2009, 10:30AM BST.
Wrekin Amateur Radio Society holds its annual dinner at the Charlton Arms Hotel, Wellington, in 1952.
The photo comes from George Shepherd, of Dawley Road, Wellington.
He names them as, standing, from left: himself George Shepherd and XYL (George explains this means Ex Young Lady and is an amateur radio term for wife) ie Ida Shepherd, Jeff Bagley, Chas Tranter, Don Breeze, Geoff Myatt and XYL (George doesn’t recall her name, nor those of some of the other XYLs present).
Left side, top to bottom: Frank Tobin and XYL, Peter Ross, Bill Bishton and XYL, unknown, D Jewkes and Frank Davis.
Right side, top to bottom: Derek Wright, Cliff Oakes Jones and XYL, Ted Deakin and his wife Mary, Dave McCurrie and Phillip Johnson.
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The Coach and Dogs did wonderful toasted tea cakes. It was a lovely place to have coffee and very sad when it closed down. The pub on the right was the Sun Inn, now a restaurant. The trees in the churchyard were felled in the early 1960′s.
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