It has just occurred to me that you may not know just what a ‘ball-bearing’ is.
Well, you surely know what one tiny 5mm diameter steel ball bearing is!
What are ball-bearings?
School Days
Building your Buggy
What was called for was an appropriately long bolt of precisely the correct diameter to fit through both burned-out holes – that in the front axle and directly above in the buggy board – and with sufficient numbers and sizes of nuts and washers to do the job-in-hand.
Ball-bearing Races
All our contests and competitions were centred on the use of the ball-bearing buggy.
We had no interest in tortoise v hare events – especially since we were the tortoises!
Abbey Class of 1965
This reproduction does little to flatter my school-mates and the Editor would be grateful for a proper black & white print. The second half – which includes myself – will follow shortly.
Meadow: Buggies 2
In those early days of the late 1950s in The Meadow, there was only one boy to earn even greater ridicule than the rider of the lop-sided buggy, and that was the lad who suddenly appeared, beaming, on a shiny new, pristine shop-bought contraption with cissy rubberised wheels.
Meadow: Pigeons [2]
There was a strict regulation imposed on all new tenants of The Meadow estate in the late 40s-early 50s that no wild or domesticated animals be kept in or about these pristine new homes.
Abbey 1947
The men pictured, the Abbey Pre-Junior Class of 1947, are now all in their early to mid 70s.
Our Home
Grandad’s chair stood by the fireside: it was a high-backed armchair with sugan seat and cushion. When Grandad was in bed – often enough later, when he was unwell – Mother sat in it sewing or reading.