Autographs

Growing up in East Yorkshire, there wasn't much opportunity to gather autographs from famous folk. After all, you didn't get many A list stars holidaying at Withernsea or even Bridlington further up the coast. East Yorkshire was a peaceful back water and some would say that the same is true today.

One Saturday in 1964 I was in the "Hammonds" department store  in the centre of Hull with my mother when I spotted a famous face from "Dixon of Dock Green" on the BBC. It was Peter Byrne who played Detective Andy Crawford.  He was starring in a play at Hull New Theatre. My mother came over to him with me and fortunately she had a notebook with her. I never seemed to have the autograph book handy. Here is Peter Byrne...

and here's his autograph...

Hattie Jacques was a legendary comedy star in this country. Here's her image and the autograph she gave me...

Every September, a cricket festival is held  at the Yorkshire seaside town of Scarborough. I was there in September 1964 to see Sir Frank Worrell's XI take on an England XI. Frank Worrell was a legendary West Indian cricketer who hailed originally from Barbados. He even appeared on one of that nation's postage stamps as you cam see at the top of this blogpost. Tragically he died from leukemia just three years after I acquired his autograph. He is buried in Westminster Abbey where last Saturday's coronation occurred...

Of all the autographs I gathered, I am most proud of Chris Chilton's signature. He remains Hull City's all time leading goalscorer and a local legend. He died in a nursing home in 2021 - from dementia that was probably linked to all the years he spent heading footballs

Nowadays I would never consider asking a famous person for his or her autograph. The idea of it is a little demeaning. Even if Elon Musk parked a Tesla vehicle outside our house and the passengers who got out were Madonna, David Attenborough and  Naomi Campbell, my autograph book would not make an appearance. Instead I'd probably ask Muskrat how long he was going to be.

I admit that my autographs are not hugely impressive. 

Did you collect any worthy autographs yourself? Pray, do tell...

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Rest

Back from pump fill up. 

Thoughts

It’s a blessing for great healthcare

It’s a blessing for caring help

It’s so nice to be heard

I’m going to be resting for a bit

Any reading recommendations? 

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Tea and Cake

I was in bed for most of the day yesterday. We’d had an incredibly hard and busy shift Saturday night and so I slept heavily and long, despite being woken by the dogs baying at someone at the door in the afternoon. My visitor was Nick from the TCA who dropped off some of the Coronation cake made by bouncy Bridget . I missed his knock but soon spied a parcel of cake wrapped in silver paper plonked on top of my wall basket.

It was bloody lovely too with a hot cup of tea.

But I was soon snoring away the rest of the afternoon so missed any post-mortem from the Coronation afternoon tea which looked impressive on line and which probably  tasted even better in the flesh

The Eurovision night next Saturday will be a much bawdier affair me thinks.

Me hopes so.

So, Trelawnyd life plods along at its own pace. King Charles has his crown and I suspect he shouts and  laughs with Camilla loudly and long.

Eurovision is the next altar to pray at. Then it’s summer 

 

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