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Each month we’ll update this page and reward the senders of the best story, our ‘star story’, with a magnum of Champagne or a luxury food hamper.
If you would like your story to be considered for this page, please send an email to sam@who-remembers-me.com
We look forward to hearing from you soon!!
If you would like your story to be considered for this page, please send an email to sam@who-remembers-me.com
We look forward to hearing from you soon!!
Former friends from The Shire back in touch
This month’s Star Story comes from William Green of South Wales in the UK, who recently connected with former work colleague and old friend Dave Underwood through the site. Here’s his story:
“I have recently lost my very dear and loving wife to that dreaded disease we call cancer. Pauline was the light of my life and as I am disabled and our four children are now grown into young adults, I was so very, very lonely.
Living in a remote part of South Wales with no near neighbours makes my solitude even harder and this is where the Who-Remembers-Me.com website has come into its own and helped me through the loneliness.
I came across this website whilst surfing the Internet, about all I am able to do without moving about too much and causing me physical pain because of my spinal problems.
I decided to put in details of the place where I once lived and indeed spent all of my young teenage years; ‘The Centre of The Universe’ as we used to call it, or ‘The Shire’. This was of course Bedfordshire, and the place was Dunstable.
My details were seen by my friend’s sister and she put me in touch with her brother Dave Underwood, a dear friend of mine those hippy happy days of the late 60s and early 70s!
We were work friends initially, both working at an electrical retail shop outlet that was known as Loyd’s Electrical. Then one day a couple of grey suits walked into the store with a tin of whitewash and said “you’re redundant, whitewash the shop windows and we will give you your white envelopes with your redundancy money in, and then it’s goodbye”.
My envelope had about £150 in it and I went straight down to a men’s boutique (as they were known then) and blew the lot on a “Gestapo” style leather raincoat that I really liked and which lasted me for many years after that.
Dave and I last saw each other in the 1970s just before I moved from Dunstable to Norfolk with my parents.
I’ve since learned that Dave went on to front his own rock band; The Koan Brothers with Dave as the lead singer and guitarist; acoustic, electric and mandolin. His ‘Blues Style’ voice is truly AMAZING!
He’s also married and lives in Brighton, and his wife Christine also from Dunstable, used to live just around the corner from where I lived and only a few doors away from where my very dear late wife Pauline lived; in fact their families knew each other very well! It really is such a small world!
I’m so pleased to be back in touch with Dave after all this time. Thanks to all at Who-Remembers-Me.com for unlocking past treasures and reuniting old friends once again.”
“I have recently lost my very dear and loving wife to that dreaded disease we call cancer. Pauline was the light of my life and as I am disabled and our four children are now grown into young adults, I was so very, very lonely.
Living in a remote part of South Wales with no near neighbours makes my solitude even harder and this is where the Who-Remembers-Me.com website has come into its own and helped me through the loneliness.
I came across this website whilst surfing the Internet, about all I am able to do without moving about too much and causing me physical pain because of my spinal problems.
I decided to put in details of the place where I once lived and indeed spent all of my young teenage years; ‘The Centre of The Universe’ as we used to call it, or ‘The Shire’. This was of course Bedfordshire, and the place was Dunstable.
My details were seen by my friend’s sister and she put me in touch with her brother Dave Underwood, a dear friend of mine those hippy happy days of the late 60s and early 70s!
We were work friends initially, both working at an electrical retail shop outlet that was known as Loyd’s Electrical. Then one day a couple of grey suits walked into the store with a tin of whitewash and said “you’re redundant, whitewash the shop windows and we will give you your white envelopes with your redundancy money in, and then it’s goodbye”.
My envelope had about £150 in it and I went straight down to a men’s boutique (as they were known then) and blew the lot on a “Gestapo” style leather raincoat that I really liked and which lasted me for many years after that.
Dave and I last saw each other in the 1970s just before I moved from Dunstable to Norfolk with my parents.
I’ve since learned that Dave went on to front his own rock band; The Koan Brothers with Dave as the lead singer and guitarist; acoustic, electric and mandolin. His ‘Blues Style’ voice is truly AMAZING!
He’s also married and lives in Brighton, and his wife Christine also from Dunstable, used to live just around the corner from where I lived and only a few doors away from where my very dear late wife Pauline lived; in fact their families knew each other very well! It really is such a small world!
I’m so pleased to be back in touch with Dave after all this time. Thanks to all at Who-Remembers-Me.com for unlocking past treasures and reuniting old friends once again.”