John Edward Cooper’s Notes
Peter Richard Gooding
In the second year at Fleetwood Grammar School — September 1962 or shortly after that — one lunch-time, I saw Jones playing a chasing-and-catching game with another boy. I asked to join in, and was allowed to.[more] The boy was Peter Gooding — called “Peter”, “Pete”, or following school practice “Gooding” by me, and “Goods” by Jones (who, incidentally, called his Mum “Mums”, his Dad “Dads”, and me “Coops”). Gooding may have been in the same class (or “form”, as classes were called there) as Jones. We were all in the same year, but I was in a different form. Afterwards, I started to see Peter separately. He lived in a caravan [trailer home] on a site at Limebrest Farm, off School Road, Thornton.[1] He had previously lived in Blackpool, and Wallasey, but came originally from Northwich, Cheshire. [1] See Limebrest Farm, Thornton Cleveleys. See also in Early Days: First day of term at Fleetwood Grammar School: Jones meets Gooding—as well as numerous entries in 1965, the year that changed my life. |
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