Here are yet more memories of Summervale friends --- Mick Smith -- Mick son of Reg and Dorothy Smith, was certainly one of our families closest friends with his father being the personnel manager at STC and having quite a great deal of contact with us we were all growing up and starting
work. In Summervale Michael would come to our house many times for tea and his parents would make us always very welcome at his house for watching TV for the very first time Mick's house had the very first TV we had ever seen, programmes such as The Lone Ranger and Tonto,
Cup final football and many more it was all very exciting in those days and new I remember us all sat in the house along with many other friends who may still remember this. We would all be sat glued to it, and it took some time to get us out when the shows were over!! I remember Mick as a good sensible lad and good company, his mum Dot would quite often lend me her push bike to ride around The Green it was the first larger bike I had ever ridden, One day I came off it when learning how to ride and I still have the scar on my right knee to prove it!!
I last saw Mick when we had all moved to Paignton and lived on the Foxhole estate we were both interested in cars Mick in the garage next to mine, was rebuilding a vintage MG. and I had started to do work on a car I had bought, a 1947 Austin 12 saloon (a very large car by today's standards)
it cost me the meagre sum of seven pounds and ten
shillings probably a full weeks wages in those days for a man. Michael was very clever with his hands
and had the MG stripped down to the chassis to rebuild and make the wooden frame structure before
mounting the outer body panels, he completed the job himself and I can still remember him driving around the estate with the top down, looking very pleased with himself having a sports car back in the late 50's and early 60's was something rare to the younger set. Be nice to be able to talk over old times
with Mick again.
More episodes of good friends and Summervale days to follow!!
Best wishes DW.
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