Sewing person needed.

Gremlin said:
Thanks DtheP.
Im dropping the jacket off with him later.
I bet I will know him when I see him, I had a few suits made at McKno's years ago.
And thanks to everbody else for their suggestions.
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Most people know Jack, top geezer.;)
 
Too right he’s a top geezer. Was my husband’s best mate when they were in their prime. He was his Best Man at our wedding, has visited us here in South Australia and we stayed a few days with him and Dorothy in 2012. Often talk on the phone.
 
Apparently there is a man on Rawtenstall market who does alterations etc, a friend of mine has recently taken an old suuit to be altered to him. Not Hyndburn I know but thought it might help!
 
Jack has made the button hole for me Dotti.
He said news travels fast and now half of Australia knows.
I had a few minutes chat with him and you were mentioned.

Also thanks to DtheP for suggesting I contact Jack.
 
Hi Gremlin. Good that Jack was able to make the button-hole for you. It's certainly a small world, you just never know who knows who....

...and I'll bet he didn't mention any of the things him and his nibs got up to in their misspent youth.
 
dotti34 said:
Hi Gremlin. Good that Jack was able to make the button-hole for you. It's certainly a small world, you just never know who knows who....

...and I'll bet he didn't mention any of the things him and his nibs got up to in their misspent youth.
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Just shows dotti, i have known jack since i worked wi him in 1963, never knew he was a tailor,in a previous life. n dorothy i went junior school with, small world as yeh say.;)
 
Hi Cashman. I thought that Jack was always a tailor, didn't know him to be anything else but.

Did you also know that he was a boxer when he was in the army, and was a brilliant bebopper in his youth. His nibs tells me that on one occasion the whole ballroom (Rawtenstall Astoria) stopped to watch Jack strut his stuff - lots of happy memories.
 
Talking of dancing, music and so on, I used to tell my kids the music they listened to was rubbish - until they pointed out that songs in my era included such as 'Ooh Bop She Bam She Doodlebop'....enough said! Now I'm REALLY showing my age.....
 
dotti34 said:
Hi Cashman. I thought that Jack was always a tailor, didn't know him to be anything else but.

Did you also know that he was a boxer when he was in the army, and was a brilliant bebopper in his youth. His nibs tells me that on one occasion the whole ballroom (Rawtenstall Astoria) stopped to watch Jack strut his stuff - lots of happy memories.
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Nah dotti in 63 i was a butcher fer Slingers @ Load Of Mischief, Jack was a driver fer em.;)
 
Well that's something I didn't know, Cashman. Didn't know he had at one stage exchanged needle and thread for a steering wheel. We were in Australia by then.
 
cashman said:
Nah dotti in 63 i was a butcher fer Slingers @ Load Of Mischief, Jack was a driver fer em.;)
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Ol & Dotti

Jacks always done various driving jobs used to deliver a lot for a couple of butchers in the old market hall. I guess that came about with his link through Slingers. I'll ask him. ;)
 
I knew the name jack Gee, and I remember a driver working for Slingers of that name.....didn't know it was the same chap although he would be the right age.
This was circa 1963.
 
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