Jim (Jock) Walkinshaw?

Does anyone remember Jim (Jock) Walkinshaw, before the war he was a credit draper, selling clothing from door to door in Rodbourne and collecting a few pence a week in payment. During the war he went to work in a war factory and became an air raid warden. He lived in Morris Street. After the war he started social evenings which grew into Rodbourne Community Centre. I have put his name forward as a a street name at Nightingale Rise off Moredon Road and have just heard he may be ‘shortlisted’.
Jean Allen…

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  1. JIM HURLEY on September 12, 2020 at 10:32

    I REMEMBER JOCK WELL, HE MOVED FROM RODBOURNE TO WHAT WAS KNOWN AS THE REC CENTRE IN FLEET STREET, CLOSE TO THE BATHS KNOWN AS THE MAJESTIC, THE REC CENTRE RAN FOR MANY YEARS, WITH DANCES AND OTHE SOCIAL ACTIVITIES, THIS WAS IN THE 1950s, IF ANYONE REMEMBERS THIS PLEASE RESPOND BY THIS METHOD, TO JIM HURLEY.

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