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Originally Posted by Karateman

I always remember my dad filling up with petrol at Nobby's...come the budget time dad would drive over to Nobby's to fill up the tank to save about 2d (2 owd pennies) a gallon just before 10.00pm when it was due to go up, there was always a queue of cars filling up.
He did used to have an old oily beret and I think a brown smock and as you say always looked tanned, but my uncle who new Nobby well, always said he worked 7 days a week 365 days a year and had never had a holiday and worked 4.00am till about 10.30 pm everyday. He joked that Nobbys only ambition was to eventually retire and see his house in daylight....LOL

I also remember filling my scooter up at the JET willows lane garage and it being about 32p a gallon in 1971...ish I think.


Phil

Nobby never wore a brown smock, he sometimes wore khaki trousers, and always wore army style boots, and his beret was like Fred Dibnah's, cap never off his head, his wife brought his meals round for him, when he was living in Langford St.
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