View Single Post
Old 05-09-2013, 17:38   #46
westendlass
Full Member+
 
westendlass's Avatar
 

Re: Whitebirk Power Station

Quote:
Originally Posted by claytonx View Post
Sorry it was no 12 so my wife tells me, and after looking on Google she is right as usual. We bought the house 1965/66 when I worked for the NCB as a mechanic, so we got ten bags of smokeless fuel for £1 and had a Rayburn fire with a glass front, it got so hot we had to run water off the cistern and the radiators nearly bounced off the walls. I remember our mortgage was £11 10 shillings a month.
I remember two lovely people living at no. 12. Doris and Ricky Roberts. We're they the people who bought your house. We moved in in 1969 and, I think, they were already living there.
__________________
westendlass is offline   Reply With Quote
Accrington Web