Remeber when

[Fred Saunders]

I don't know if this fits in here or not, my wife and I are ones of the 1%ers.
Have just ( 6/3/24) celebrated our 70th wedding anniversary.
Do you remember Polio? as it was once called Infant Paralysis,
my wife is a Polio survivor, Still with us after 5 kids, 23 grand children & 36 great grand children, much slower of course. If you are interested there is a 5 minute story of her Polio experience on Youtube.. at YouTube Pandemic Margaret;s experience. Cheers
Fred Saunders

[Fred Saunders]

I made a BIG mistake in my post.
I left school end of November 1946, not 1949, put it down to being a 1%er.
Fred Saunders

[Fouro]

Re # 51.
Fred, firstly let me congratulate both you and your wife on reaching such long ages.
May I ask you this question- Did you ever hear of Nancy Riach the Scottish and British young swimming champion?.Nancy was born in Motherwell in 1927 and died in 1947. She was competing in a race at Monte Carlo and died in the pool as a result of suffering from Polio .

Fouro .

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Fred.
I left school in 46 went to the Vindi in June 49.
Des

[Fouro]

Reading Fred's post brought back memories of Nancy Riach. You see, I was twelve when Nancy died in 1947 and myself being born in Hamilton which is less than two miles from Motherwell, I remember reading about Nancy. Over 10,000 went to her funeral which took place in Airdrie which isn't too far away from Motherwell. I would say one remembers a lot when you are twelve.

Fouro.

[j.sabourn]

Hi Des you didn’t know a Clive Spencer lives in Tauranga did you ? JS

[j.sabourn]

#55 Fouro the word Motherwell brought back memories as believe where my mother was born as she often used to talk of it. When she was about 80 my brother took her back to Scotland and I had a photo of her outside a cottage where she said she used to live . Unfortuanetley can’t find now as it may have the address on. Hope I didn’t loose it when shifting. Your 2 years older than me but I also remember in England a lot of kids I knew at school succumbed to polio and didn’t make it. My mothers name was Annie Craig Douglas and her ashes were scattered in the Kirk’s grounds there. Cheers JS

[happy daze john in oz]

Bit on the news at the weekend about a man of some 70 plus years who spent them all in an iron lung.
Contracted Polio at a very early age but managed to get a uni degree and painted with a brush in his mouth.

[Bill Morrison]

Bit on the news at the weekend about a man of some 70 plus years who spent them all in an iron lung.
Contracted Polio at a very early age but managed to get a uni degree and painted with a brush in his mouth.

I noticed this article John and it was a terrible disease.
My mind went back to the late 1950's, it had something to do with a football player. I had to look it up.
Football player Jeff Hall Right back Birmingham City. In march 1959 he started to fell unwell and steadily became worse.He was diagnosed with Polio and died a fortnight later.
His death sent a shock wave through the nation, people were queuing in their hundreds at clinics to be inoculated.
I can remember queuing for sometime for my turn.
Bill.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi John.
Sorry mate can't recall the name, was in Tauranga many times, but a long time ago now. remember Tauranga as the port where a Wharfie was killed on the ship that I was on, the whistle went for dinner and the blokes on the winch raced a sling of timber down, it hit a billet of wood and it flew up and hit a bloke climbing the ladder, can't remember if it was the billet that killed him or the fall.
Des