Jack Metcalfe cut lads hair in his “outhouse” for years until he got his shop in the second phase of shops in redhill road. Re Ken Scott, I think we knew him simply as Jock, he was our family insurance man from the Coop for many years. A lovely character!
I”m glad people remember my Dad, Ken Scott. I went to many of the dances at the Co-op. I met my husband at one of Dad”s gigs. He played a lot for the Caledonian Society Dances too.
I worked with Ken”s band for a short while in the 60″s on my nights off from working with the Bluecaps. He was a wonderful character and could talk the “hind legs off a donkey” but he was so generous and friendly. I used to look forward to my nights off to play with his band.
I remember Ken Scott from the Billingham Co-op many years ago enjoying many a Saurday night dance and then the long walk home to Parkfield via Thornaby to take a girl home. Round about nineteen forty nine, a long time ago.
I remember Ken Scott and his band well. I played in a local group ( before the term “band” became de-rigeur) called The Road Runners, managed by my late brother Joe Bradley, and we often worked with Ken”s band to provide a musical contrast to his conventional ballrom dance and Scotish country dance material. We played many corporate gigs with him at places like the Billingham Arms, The Ladle, The Marton Country Club and elsewhere. Seems like a lifetime ago.
Does anyone remember Ken Scott and his band? They played all over the Teesside area and were the resident band for the weekly dances which were held upstairs in the Co-op Hall. They also played as the resident band in the Billingham Arms Hotel.
My father and mothers met whilst working here. Mam worked in the “general” store whilst Dad was a “hairdresser” in the Barbers shop at the end. I seem to remember the manager in the barbers was Jack Metcalfe who lived on redhill Road is Roseworth. He used to own the barbers in the Roseworth shops in the late 60″2 and into the 70″s. Sadly like my father, Jack is no longer with us.
I can remember when that “Co-op Corner”was all the Co-op. Lleft to right on pic: Butchers, Chemist, filling the corner Clothing, shoes. The doorway up to the Dance hall, where we used to queue for a life saver. “The Divi”,make no bones about it in pre war days it was a life saver! The grocers, to stand and stare at the the overhead cash dispensers, whizzing over head, and it all worked like a charm, next the fruit shop, next door and last the barber.
Jack Metcalfe cut lads hair in his “outhouse” for years until he got his shop in the second phase of shops in redhill road. Re Ken Scott, I think we knew him simply as Jock, he was our family insurance man from the Coop for many years. A lovely character!
I”m glad people remember my Dad, Ken Scott. I went to many of the dances at the Co-op. I met my husband at one of Dad”s gigs. He played a lot for the Caledonian Society Dances too.
I worked with Ken”s band for a short while in the 60″s on my nights off from working with the Bluecaps. He was a wonderful character and could talk the “hind legs off a donkey” but he was so generous and friendly. I used to look forward to my nights off to play with his band.
I remember Ken Scott from the Billingham Co-op many years ago enjoying many a Saurday night dance and then the long walk home to Parkfield via Thornaby to take a girl home. Round about nineteen forty nine, a long time ago.
I remember Ken Scott and his band well. I played in a local group ( before the term “band” became de-rigeur) called The Road Runners, managed by my late brother Joe Bradley, and we often worked with Ken”s band to provide a musical contrast to his conventional ballrom dance and Scotish country dance material. We played many corporate gigs with him at places like the Billingham Arms, The Ladle, The Marton Country Club and elsewhere. Seems like a lifetime ago.
Does anyone remember Ken Scott and his band? They played all over the Teesside area and were the resident band for the weekly dances which were held upstairs in the Co-op Hall. They also played as the resident band in the Billingham Arms Hotel.
My father and mothers met whilst working here. Mam worked in the “general” store whilst Dad was a “hairdresser” in the Barbers shop at the end. I seem to remember the manager in the barbers was Jack Metcalfe who lived on redhill Road is Roseworth. He used to own the barbers in the Roseworth shops in the late 60″2 and into the 70″s. Sadly like my father, Jack is no longer with us.
I can remember when that “Co-op Corner”was all the Co-op. Lleft to right on pic: Butchers, Chemist, filling the corner Clothing, shoes. The doorway up to the Dance hall, where we used to queue for a life saver. “The Divi”,make no bones about it in pre war days it was a life saver! The grocers, to stand and stare at the the overhead cash dispensers, whizzing over head, and it all worked like a charm, next the fruit shop, next door and last the barber.