sorry meant" seemed to think Bannister" , not Baxter again..... Maureen G.
On Jul 3, 2009, at 5:48 PM, QT - Maureen Goodman wrote:

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maybe it was a different surgery, I do remember Dr. Durcan's
name....and the surgery was on Bounces road. Maureen G
On Jul 3, 2009, at 4:01 PM, QT - Ron Weeks wrote:

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thanks Carol, I thought it was Dr. Baxter too, but people seemed to think it was Baxter, and I thought I'd lost it...... Didn't Baxter smoke a pipe? Maureen G
On Jul 3, 2009, at 10:27 AM, QT - carol sample wrote:

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Terry less wine your talking in riddles,what has Hitlers name got to do with any thing.As regards the shot tower,your not suggesting Hitler did not know it was there are you ?.So it was a tough target people get lucky and they must have been trying for it.

Hi all. Yes, indeed it was Dr. Baxter at Bounces Road. My mistake. I, too, remember him as rather portly so it is hard to imagine how he squeezed himself into a sports car. I remember he was fiercely opposed to the NHS when it began in 1948 but soon came around to working within the (then) new system and indeed, promoted it in due course. I can still smell the paraffin fumes from the oil heater he had standing in the waiting room during the winter months.

Pete. I don't know of one myself but somebody on the board may know how to do it. Otherwise, if you are prepared to wander back through past postings around the end of last year you will find that I stuck mine on the board. As a result, I have managed to have personal e-mail exchanges with several N9ers who post on here without hogging the board.

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Dr Bannister it was, He was my doctor until we changed to Dr Cope, an Irish guy with a red face and a drinkers nose, he always smelled of whisky. His surgery was just past the Cock Tavern on the Hertford Road.

Denny Rd 1946/62

Nicky,

The builders office in Bury Street, which the last time I was near or by was I think City Paints, was Burfoot Jones. It was apparently a very successful building firm with more than 100 employees at one time but when the owner retired/died (not sure which) the son took over and the business ran right down to about half a dozen employees before it disappeared from there.

Brian

QT - nicky collins wrote:

Steve,
Was that builders office in Bury Street with the model of a
house in the window. It seemed to be there for years.


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Terry, Interesting facts about Cromer and I know the areas that you re-collect.

Cromer is probably off limits for other N9rs, Is there a way of privately exchanging e-mail addresses would like to hear about your expoits in Cromer.

Eddy. It's not compulsory to spell Hitlers name wrong just because I did, a case of right digit wrong button! In answer to your suggestion about Eley's shot tower, I doubt if either V1s or V2s could have been so accurately aimed to hit a specific target. If you read up on wartime bombing you will find that until about 1944, manned night bombers at least, were lucky if they dropped a bomb within five miles of the target. That was why the R.A.F. adopted "Carpet bombing" to completely smother an entire area.
Pete. I first went to Cromer around the spring of 1941. I was four years and about eight months old and had just left Highlands isolation hospital where I had been sent with scarlet fever. My father was stationed with the
Royal Artillery in Cromer and he found us some digs with a lady called Mrs Blow in one of the streets running away from the seafront on the north cliff of Cromer, near the Cliftonville Hotel which was used as a barracks then. If I can trace the street, I'll let you know. After the flying bomb I went with my mother back to Cromer and we stayed in a hotel near the top of the slipway. About four years ago I went back to have a look. The hotel was then a club called Blazers, I think, but in 1944 it was known as Surrey House, run by a family called Warners.
I could tell you a lot more about Cromer but I don't want to bore everyone else on this message board. I could send you a personal e-mail if you want to give me your address. You can trust me, Ron Roe does.

If it was the Surgery on the corner of Westminster rd/Bounces Rd , confirm it was Dr Baxter
He drove a fairly new MF TF sports car. How his rather rotund form got into it i will never know!
Ron

Steve,
Was that builders office in Bury Street with the model of a house in the window. It seemed to be there for years.

Colin Cumner.
                         When I said some people just accept things as they are.
I never directed it at you and never would my South Australian friend.

David Payne.
                       I remember that yard before Newton and Moss had it and remember it as a wood yard but never knew who owned it.
I remember Newton and Moss from the working man’s club at the top of bounces road.

Steve

Do you mean Docter Baxter,i dont recall a Doctor Bannister

Carol
Dereham
Norfok

Terry Letch

Regarding the flying bomb in aug 1944,i remember my father telling me about that,he lived in Eastbournia ave,and the house shook, and a wall collapsed onto my mother who was expecting me at the time.I remember as a small child playing over the allotment and there was a massive dip in the ground,i think thats where the bomb landed.

Carol
Dereham
Norfolk

Terry the answer to your question {I wonder what it was about Montagu Road that seemed to upset Hitlet so much?} I think it was the shot tower where they made ammunition,there that should jog your memory.It would have been a prime target.