Post by les on Nov 13, 2023 23:52:19 GMT -5
Alec Spicer to Hugh Shannon
Loose School and Boys Teck
Maidstone I remember it well -
Hugh Shannon
Mick Barney - a great pal of mine, went to the same schools - Loose Primary then onto the newly opened Boys Tech. at Oakwood Park.
He married Stephanie Ells (my ex-wife's cousin) whose brother Stewart would often be seen drifting a green S7 Sunbeam with a Steib sidecar around Maidstone.
Two other bikes I remember of Micks' - Was it a James Captain he named 'Maggot', and the 350cc. Model 50 Norton on Featherbed frame, with which he took the 'Coxheath Time Trial' - that was from the Bird In Hand to Wilkins Corner, down Hunton Hill, along Redwall Lane, up Linton Hill, and back to the pub from Linton crossroads.
No one believed that he could better Tony Hickmott's time on a larger Triumph Twin and must have cheated, so he was duly despatched again with me as passenger for verification.....I can vividly remember flip-flopping at 80 mph through the bends down Hunton Hill...!!!!!!
Maidstone I remember it well -
Jim Yarwood.
Mick Barney supplied my '33' badge, it was gold blocked onto leather courtesy of KCC...!!!!!!!!
Yes his Gold Star DBD34 with RRT2 close ratio box was one beauty of a machine, I got the job of writing Gold Star in Old English to both sides of the fairing.
I had an Ariel Arrow - bare chassis with black racing fairing and expansion chambers.
We used to (Rockers that is) in the late evenings, congregate across from The Granada opposite the new now old bus station.
Youth clubs in the early sixties, most weeks we would visit Boughton Monchelsea, Linton Hill, Bluett Street (was this Howard de Walden ?), and lastly can someone correct me there was a club beneath a church in King Street ?? perhaps now beneath Stoneborough/Chequers/Mall....remember going there with Geof Allardyce.... him on his then quite fast Kerry Capitano moped.
The only underground club I remember is the Rat trap .To get to where that was now go through Sainsbury's car park and go up the cut that leads onto King st
then turn left was 3 or 4 doors along was the Curry Inn for years (not sure what it is now)
Does anyone remember a lorry crashed into the front of it
Loose School and Boys Teck
Maidstone I remember it well -
Hugh Shannon
Mick Barney - a great pal of mine, went to the same schools - Loose Primary then onto the newly opened Boys Tech. at Oakwood Park.
He married Stephanie Ells (my ex-wife's cousin) whose brother Stewart would often be seen drifting a green S7 Sunbeam with a Steib sidecar around Maidstone.
Two other bikes I remember of Micks' - Was it a James Captain he named 'Maggot', and the 350cc. Model 50 Norton on Featherbed frame, with which he took the 'Coxheath Time Trial' - that was from the Bird In Hand to Wilkins Corner, down Hunton Hill, along Redwall Lane, up Linton Hill, and back to the pub from Linton crossroads.
No one believed that he could better Tony Hickmott's time on a larger Triumph Twin and must have cheated, so he was duly despatched again with me as passenger for verification.....I can vividly remember flip-flopping at 80 mph through the bends down Hunton Hill...!!!!!!
Maidstone I remember it well -
Jim Yarwood.
Mick Barney supplied my '33' badge, it was gold blocked onto leather courtesy of KCC...!!!!!!!!
Yes his Gold Star DBD34 with RRT2 close ratio box was one beauty of a machine, I got the job of writing Gold Star in Old English to both sides of the fairing.
I had an Ariel Arrow - bare chassis with black racing fairing and expansion chambers.
We used to (Rockers that is) in the late evenings, congregate across from The Granada opposite the new now old bus station.
Youth clubs in the early sixties, most weeks we would visit Boughton Monchelsea, Linton Hill, Bluett Street (was this Howard de Walden ?), and lastly can someone correct me there was a club beneath a church in King Street ?? perhaps now beneath Stoneborough/Chequers/Mall....remember going there with Geof Allardyce.... him on his then quite fast Kerry Capitano moped.
The only underground club I remember is the Rat trap .To get to where that was now go through Sainsbury's car park and go up the cut that leads onto King st
then turn left was 3 or 4 doors along was the Curry Inn for years (not sure what it is now)
Does anyone remember a lorry crashed into the front of it