ANDREW WALECZEK
 

Hi, anyone know of this ex Accrington man?  His long lost brother wishes to make contact again.

Atarah

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Hi, how old a person is Andrew? If he is around 70/80 then I might know who he is.

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Hi, thanks for replying. Believe he is around 35/40yrs of age. He is brother-in-law to a girl I work with

Atarah

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Not the one I know . He is aleast 70, sorry

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But .. .dont you think its odd that you know someone with this same, unusual name? Maybe its worth pursuing, could be the father of the man we want, eh?

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Hi - I'm brand new to the site and just found yr query - if its the Andy Waleczek I knew he is 48/49 like me, and was in our year at Holy Family and left there in 1971/72

He was a best mate of a guy called Tony Gardiner, used to hang around together all the time, they both lived near Sacred Heart Church somewhere

I don't know what happened to him after he left school but a lot of the ex school guys & gals keep in touch through Friends Reunited - look for Holy Family School Acc and the 1971/72 year - try emailing some of them, they may know

If I hear anything at all I'll post it back to u

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Did he used to work for the TSB? Maybe he still works for Lloyds TSB.

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Have no idea where he went after school, but he didn't strike me as a "banker" lol

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Hmm. I remember maths lessons at Holy Family in the company of messrs Waleczek, Gardener and McKenna.

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was it tony gardiner your on about a-b

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:drink: mickmc i went to holy family and a few of them names keep comming back to me!my older brother and sisters all went there as well! they are all older than me so you probly know them.

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probably do staggering man, give em best regards from Mick McAvoy

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DO YOU REMEMBER martin west,mick durkin, dave dearnaley,roy collard etc..

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I remebers em S M but they were in either the year above us or the year below, methinks

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Mick McGough, Martin Cavanagh, Norval Dwyer, Michael Routh, Ian Rawcliffe, Robert Dillon, Roman Synczysz, Patrick Cash, Michael O'Conner, Bernard Firth, Steve Pollard, Phillip Salisbury, ? Slinger, ? Cronshaw, Richard Ormerod. Any of these names ring a bell Mick? And in the year below; Martin West, Simon Preugschat, Christopher Staves. My memory is not as good as it used to be, sorry.

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I thought you did pretty good there A-B!

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like music to my ears, shame about Ernie Firth though, great mate, was it not John Pollard ?, me & Mick O'Connor goes way back, don't remember Michael Routh, Richard Ormerod, and only have a hazy memory of Roman
None of the names from the year below rings any bells

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You are possibly right with John Pollard, as I said the memory is not what it was. The last time I saw Mick O'Conner waas in The Pickwick in Accrington around 1979/80 and he was talking about some sort of class reunion. I don't know if he ever managed to organise it. You must remember Roman he had a younger sister called Christine and they lived on Blackburn Road near the bottom of Wheat Street. Richard Ormerod lived on the next block along going towards Church. Yes it was a great pity about Bernard Firth, what a waste.

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yea just abt remember Ronan but can't remember Richard - was a re-union organised by Jimmy Donohoe last year, quite a lot turned up "reet good do", - he says he's organising another one next year - check out the link see if ya remembers any of the gang from there pics - www.idonohoe.com/holyfamily/reunion.htm

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Thanks Mick, I had a quick sprint through the pics and I am sorry to say not one of them rings a bell apart from Mick O'Conner. I told you my memory was going west.

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theres a few faces there that i remember, but sadly not the names, thanks for that mick.

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Just look at Ian Donohoe's website. Now look at how much he charges. Now look at this message board and how active and easy it is to negotiate.

Now look at Hyndburnlife. Now think about how much HBC paid for that.

Now think how much HBC could have saved if they'd got Roy and Ian to work together!

(Sorry, I know it's a thread wander of majestic proportions but I was just wandering around Ian Donohoe's pages and the thought struck me. He's made a very nmice job of the St. Christopher's site.)

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Haven't had a look round Ians site, but there was always the old school rivalry and maybe this is another way at getting back at them gits from St C .......................tut tut..........lol

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Dont know what Barbara King And her sister Janette were doing at Holy Family reunion, they both went to Paddock House. Good to see Terry Neville, one of my favourite teachers. cant recall other names.

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Terry Neville......Where?

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white hair & glasses ...... must admit i did miss him at first, he he , he's still good looking for his age, 3 picture,? i see mr astin a few times he's not changed either execept for the white hair .

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Oh Horrible! I feel a note from my mother coming on.

Don't remember Astin, what did he do?

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aaaahh well umm , i think it was english, he was one of my teachers from st, marys ossy before we moved up to holy family , do you remember mr bleasdale?, he moved up there too.

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Nope, sorry, don't remember him. Mulderrig (sp?), Almond, Nancy Lindo, McDonald, Johnny Mayor of course, That's about it. I seem to have successfully erased the rest of them from my memory.

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Barbara King marries Jimmy Donohue who organised the reunion and Jeanette was in the same year as us at StAnnes before we all went to Holy Family & she went to Paddock house; thats the link

Great teachers names there... (ouch ...did I just say that !!!....) what about also Mr McAloon, Mr Ryder, Mr Bently, Mr Stancliffe, Miss Gibson ( I fancied her....) .... what was that darned R I teacher called .............

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i remember mullderrick, but i was only there from the september, when it opened , till xmas when we left to join the big wide world.

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Mr Mullderrick, was our form teacher, he was a very fit man, used to run a lot, before it became jogging. I remember, Bob Almond ( metalwork ) Mr Bleasdale, Miss McGregor, ( sexy ) Miss Doran ( music ) Mr Nobblet ( science ) Katie Boyle ( PE ) Miss Hargraeves ( RI ) . Mr Mullderrick's nick name, Bowd Buddha. A good aime with a board duster and picking and flicking crows, dirty ******. Terry Neville, grown old very gracefully, but he was a good looking man.

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>> what about also Mr McAloon, Mr Ryder, Mr Bently, Mr Stancliffe, Miss Gibson ( I fancied her....) .... what was that darned R I teacher called <<

I remember Miss Gibson, she was nice. What was the English teacher called who had a metal plate in his head? Anybody know what happened to Stancliffe? There were some jolly unsavoury rumours circulating about him.

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I remember Janette King and I also went to Paddock, I don't recall her being there though, and we are the same age. Maybe she went after leaving H F to go into the lower 6th form. There were a few came to Paddock fron H F inc Angela Dugdale.

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I remember Martin Cavanagh, Norval Dwyer, Michael Routh, Ian Rawcliffe, Robert Dillon, Roman Synczyz, Ricky Ormerod and Phillip Salisbury from St. Oswalds junior school. Also Dave Parr, Christopher Egan, Dave Kay, Paula Rae, Janice Garrity & Helen Towler, you may also remember these going to Holy Family, they will all be aged 48 - 49 now.

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Jeez all names from my past, and we is all 48/49 - the big 50 comin....... - although I don't remember Janice Garitty - Chris Egan - wonder which nick he is in by now............

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Tony Gardener, Nick name ( Fanner ) He had a brother Harry, Tony was in the same year as my brother Kevin.

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Didn't the Dugdale family live on Blackburn Road near the Sacred Heart, What happened to them all? It seemed at one time that they very nearly filled the church all by themselves on a Sunday.

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Yes, they did.

I don't know where they all are now but I think Anne still lives locally, Angela is a PE teacher and lives somewhere near Ormskirk, Gerard lives locally, Paul is/was a plumber and lived in Ossy, his mum-in-law used to have Stanhill Post Office, Last I heard of Kevin he lived Haslingden way, he lost an arm in an accident, the eldest son John?? is a priest, don't know about Catherine or Maureen, Mr Dugdale died a few years back, and last time I spoke to Angela, Mrs Dugdale was well and living in Blackburn.

J B

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Hello, I went to Holy Family with Andy. When we left we went to work at a slipper factory in Ossy and worked there for about 5 years. I left the factory to become a gardener with the local authority. Sorry I havent seen or herd from him since.

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What about, Val Padden, Pip Slinger. Dave Kay, Paul Webber, Mick Welch. Brendan Gee, Terry O'Rouke, Icky Greenwood, Brian Balmer. Eugine Cash and Uncle Tom Cobbly and all.
I only ever see Dave Kay regularly from the good old school days.

Regards to you all
Gavin Westell