Gordon Smith Institute.

[Jim Brady]

I went to the old pool John it was at the back end of the Sailors Home in Paradise Street, John Lewis new shop in Liverpool 1 stands right over it.The Sailors Home and the Gordon Smith are two different places although they were very close to each other.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[happy daze john in oz]

Jim #4, no doubt if such names were in common use today someoen from the PC brigade would say it was incorrect!!

[Roy Dadge]

Hi,

Memories of The Gordon Smith Institute from November 1962

I stayed at the Gordon Smith Institute for three weeks in November 1962 while attending the Fireman's training school. The cubicles in the dormitory were divided and enclosed with a hardboard paneled walls painted in a light green emulsion. Each of the cubicles being lockable, I found it austere but a comfortable place to rest one's head after a night out in Liverpool pubs. From the fireman's training school we would go each day to a cafe which from memory was on the way to the Liver Building, drink coffee and play records on the jukebox. November 1962 is, from recent reports that I have read, the month when a great musical awakening took place in Liverpool with regard to the Beatles, the Cavern Club etc. I am afraid that i have to admit this past right over my head, in Yates Wine Lodge and a pub that I think was called the Spread Eagle, at the back of Liverpool Station. I was also guilty of playing Freddie and Pacemakers Ferry Cross the Mersey

Life goes on day after day
Hearts torn in every way
So ferry 'cross the Mersey
'cause this land's the place I love
and here I'll stay
People they rush everywhere
Each with their own secret care
So ferry 'cross the Mersey
and always take me there
The place I love

It is obvious that I wasn't tuned in to modern Liverpool scene in 1962.

Roy

[Jim Brady]

A good story Roy,I think your getting Freddie And The Dreamers mixed up with Gerry And the Pacemakers.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[happy daze john in oz]

A good story Roy,I think your getting Freddie And The Dreamers mixed up with Gerry And the Pacemakers.
Regards.
Jim.B.

With all those pubs in Liverpool it would be easy to get anything mixed up

The fact is Freddie and the dreamers were the guys who sat at the bar waiting for thta gorgeous blonde to walk in. Gerry and the pacemakers just went from pub to pub. Young men of course as the pacemaker had not been invented then.

[John Arton]

When I was working in Singapore in 89/90 Freddie and the Dreamers were playing at one of the hotels there, near Orchard Road
rgds
JA

[Jim Brady]

Remember when they were playing and they used to drop their trousers and carry on playing in their boxers with their trousers around their ankles.I was in Los Cristianos,Tenerife one of the band had a bar there,I asked him what that was all about dropping their trousers he said it was Freddies idea.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[Roy Dadge]

Sorry Jim,

Nothing has changed musically, got in wrong in 1962 and I am still getting it wrong. Must be old age?

Roy

[happy daze john in oz]

Remember when they were playing and they used to drop their trousers and carry on playing in their boxers with their trousers around their ankles.I was in Los Cristianos,Tenerife one of the band had a bar there,I asked him what that was all about dropping their trousers he said it was Freddies idea.
Regards.
Jim.B.

Well you never know, he was a bit of a dreamer!!