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Early Days

1950–ca.1964

Introductory:
1950

I am born (Friday 19th May 1950)
Chris Woodhead (Sunday 16th July 1950)

In Preston:
1950–1955

I am christened (Sunday 30th July 1950)
Holidays
Identity Card (Wednesday 18th April 1951)
Nude photograph (June 1951)
Holidays: Middleton Towers, 1 (perhaps summer 1951)
Holidays: Middleton Towers, 2 (perhaps summer 1952)
Family matters (early 1950’s)
A train journey (early 1950’s)
Religious matters (early 1950’s)
At the meal table (early 1950’s)
Memories from bed (early 1950’s)
“Town” (early 1950’s)
Medical matters (early 1950’s)
Philosophical matters (early 1950’s)
The children in Fairfield Drive (early 1950’s)
Steven goes to school (perhaps Friday 13th February 1953)
The Coronation (Tuesday 2nd June 1953)
Holidays: Bridlington, 1 (Whit or summer 1953)
Beyond Fairfield Drive (sometime in 1953 or early 1954)
Holidays: Bridlington, 2 (Whit or summer 1954)
Mothering Sunday, 1955 (Sunday 20th March 1955)
I go to school (Friday 20th May 1955)
Holidays: Bridlington, 3 (Whit or summer 1955)

In Thornton:
1955–ca.1964

We move to Thornton (perhaps Monday 3rd October 1955)
School (Tuesday 4th October 1955 to July 1961)
Class 7 (Tuesday 4th October 1955 to July 1956)
Sunday School (1955 to perhaps September 1960)
Nanny and Grandad’s house, and environs (1955 and afterwards)
Holidays: Scarborough, 1 (July 1956)
Class 5 (September 1956 to July 1957)
Class 4 (September 1957 to July 1958)
Timothy Leech (perhaps 1957 to 1961)
“A Mars packet, please!” (late 1950s)
The Collaro record-changer (late summer 1958)
Class 3 (September 1958 to July 1959)
Bike rides and the boy at Burn Naze (the 1958–59 school year)
The motorbike and sidecar (1959 to the early 1960s)
Class 2 (September 1959 to July 1960)
Trevor Davies (early 1960 to 1963)
Beechwood Baths (perhaps 1960 or 1961)
Alison King (September 1959 to July 1960)
My poetry manuscript book (25th May 1960, 29th–31st May 1960, 4th–11th June 1960, 30th July 1960)
The Woodheads move to Thornton (July or August 1960)
Class 1 (September 1960 to July 1961)
The “eleven plus” (September 1960 to July 1961)
Alan Holt (1960 to 1961)
Swimming lessons at Beechwood School (1960 to 1961)
Chris moves to Thornton (February 1961)
The Emeralds, Mallards, Broadswords and Hellfires Club (February 1961 or before, to perhaps May 1961)
The Leeches (spring to summer 1961)
The Fairhursts and the Leeches (spring to summer 1961)
Richard Hartley (spring to summer 1961)
“You’re in league with Leech” (spring to summer 1961)
Chris begins to suffer from fits (spring 1961)
The Ghostiologists (towards summer 1961)
Peter Hargreaves (towards summer 1961)
“What’s happened to your new friend Peter Hargreaves?” (towards summer 1961)
Chris gets his “eleven plus” result (towards summer 1961)
David Jones (summer 1961)
“Little Peter” (summer 1961)
The Emeralds, Mallards, Broadswords and Hellfires Club (continued) (summer 1961)
First day of term of Fleetwood Grammar School: Jones meets Gooding (Monday 4th September 1961)
First day of term of Fleetwood Grammar School: Illness prevents me from attending (Monday 4th September 1961)
First day of term of Fleetwood Grammar School: Stanley Dickinson’s impressions

(Monday 4th September 1961)

Early days at Fleetwood Grammar School (Tuesday 5th September 1961 to July 1962)
Chris Woodhead, September 1961 (September 1961)
Chris goes to Devonshire Road hospital (September 1961)
New friendships (November 1961 or before, to ca.26th December 1964)
A for Andromeda (Tuesday 3rd October 1961 to Tuesday 14th November 1961)
Chris goes to Newcastle General hospital (September 1961 to February 1962)
Macavity (Wednesday 13th December 1961)
Lynn Johnson (Thursday 14th December 1961)
Look and Learn (Saturday 20th January 1962)
Chris Woodhead, February 1962 (February 1962)
Jones’s first visit to Chris’s house (February 1962 or after)
Jones becomes Secretary of the Club (February 1962 or after)
My friendship with David Jones (perhaps Spring Term 1962)
A walk with Jones (not dated)
“You deserve a jolly good bonking!” (not dated)
Jones’s reaction to the theme from “Out Of This World” (July 1962)
“My modesteh!” (not dated)
Chris’s visits to Grimsby (not dated)
“Chris was just leaving!” (not dated)
Chris is admitted to “The Game” (perhaps summer 1962)
Jones’s behaviour at a tea party (perhaps Monday 16th July 1962)
I learn to ride a bike (summer 1962)
I learn to swim (not dated)
Second year at Fleetwood Grammar School (Thursday 6th September 1962)
Mr. Dawson — English (September 1962 to July 1963)
I meet Chris (not dated)
I meet Peter Gooding (Autumn Term, 1962)
Chris meets Peter Gooding (not dated)
The Saint (October 1962 or after)
Early days with Peter Gooding (1) (perhaps 1963)
Early days with Peter Gooding (2) (1963)
“A tin of Jetex and a tin of fuse” (not dated)
Two inches away from being blinded (not dated)
Fairhurst and the chemistry set (early in 1963)
My expulsion from the EMB&H Club (not dated)
Jones and Manchester (not dated)
In and around Davelyshome (1961 to 1963—with one reference to 1965 or 1966)
Chris hypnotises Jones (not dated)
The Colonel C. Bear-Jones Incident (not dated)
Some sayings of Mums (not dated)
Mark of Mayfair Drive (not dated)
“One day down to Budleigh…” (not dated)
A bike ride with David Rotheram (perhaps the Easter Holiday 1963—reference to Monday 29th April 1963)
Trevor reappears on my scene (perhaps spring 1963)
My dealings with Jones — a summary (1961 to 1966)
Trevor and Jones (perhaps spring 1963)
I witness a fit for the first time (not dated)
Gazzians, Marsatians and Harmonians (summer 1963)
The Japanese War Atrocities Incident (perhaps summer 1963)
The jammy letter (1963)
Jones first reveals the threat of the Middleton Empire (perhaps summer 1963)
The Middleton Empire—fact or fiction? (perhaps summer 1963)
Jones warns Potts about the Middleton Empire (perhaps summer 1963)
“I’m very sorry, Chris, but what can I do?” (perhaps summer 1963)
Jones sells the Club out to the Middleton Empire (Friday 26th July 1963)
David Rotheram and I go camping to Garstang (perhaps Saturday 3rd August 1963 to Saturday 10th August 1963)
Jones’s trial before the Disciplinary Court (one Saturday, perhaps 10th August 1963)
Alan Holmes Fairhurst and David Charles Jones (not dated)
Chris’s first visits to my house (mid-August 1963)
“We dun’t want boys in while we’re ’avin’ uz teas” (not dated)
The Middleton Empire spoof (perhaps summer 1963)
The Apple Incident (August 1963)
Third year at Fleetwood Grammar School (Thursday 12th September 1963)
Andrew Pickup (September 1963 to July 1964)
Lynda Consadine (Friday 13th December 1963)
David Charles Woodhead and David Charles Jones (perhaps 1964)
Beat Nights (1964)
“When Rome Burned” (Saturday 11th January 1964)
“Go home!” (March 1964 or shortly afterwards)
An unexpected party at my house (some time after 19th March 1964)
“What did you say, Cooper?” (July 1964)
To cure me of being a “claustrobe” (not dated)
The summer holidays, 1964 (Friday 24th July 1964 to Wednesday 9th September 1964)
Brian Hall meets David Jones (perhaps summer 1964)
Gooding and I go on holiday (late August 1964)
Towards the first kiss (towards the end of 1964)
Fourth year at Fleetwood Grammar School (Thursday 10th September 1964)
Brian Collinge (September 1964 to November 1964)
“A petty vandal and a bully” (September 1964 to July 1965, May 1966)
My first visit to Grimsby — Thursday (Thursday 29th October 1964)
My first visit to Grimsby — Friday (Friday 30th October 1964)
My first visit to Grimsby — Saturday (Saturday 31st October 1964)
Ann Nurse (Saturday 31st October; reference to December 1964)
Chris and I return home (Sunday 1st November 1964 and Monday 2nd November 1964; reference to Easter 1965)
Pat Lomas and Elaine (November 1964)
The “feight” with Collinge (not dated)
Gillian (not dated)
Doreen Tewson (late 1964 to early 1965)
“Rag Doll” (perhaps November 1964)
“Sharon” (perhaps Saturday 5th December 1964)
Chris and I watch “Sharon” on TV (Wednesday 9th December 1964)
Chris’s reaction to the programme “Sharon” (Thursday 10th December 1964)
Chris has a fit (perhaps December 1964)

[1965, the year that changed my life]

posted by John Edward Cooper # 3/30/2009 08:09:00 pm

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