Filey

Also - do you remember the sitting room at the front which over looked the bay and that lovely dresser in there displaying Mrs. Wilson,s Crown Derby collection. Dixie and Tommy bought her a teapot which must have cost them the earth then. Oh! and poor Gordon lets say "unsteady on his feet" and knocking over the big Christmas tree - everything went flying but we managed to salvage it. Ha! and "Pandy Puss" the fat cat that didnt like coming over from Sheffield in the Rolls/Bentley so would leave its calling card in the back seat (usually got flung out of the window on journey).Pitty the car behind. Such a pampered cat - Mrs. Wilson would line up saucers of food for it to choose which it fancied. All flooding back now!

No sorry - but I think I know who you are talking about - always very tanned? JP I mean. We were god parents to her first child. Hope we on the same wave length. My initials were LP then when married - LB - but depends on your age and if you are from Filey to know the crowd we all went about with. Such good days. I would help Dixie blond her hair and stick rollers in -she had lovely hair.

Dixie and I were huge friends as I was originally from Sheffield but something happened in her life which I wont go into and it changed everything. Things were never the same! I married a Filey lad and she met a chap who was related to one of her Hunmanby Hall school friends and they married. I moved down south and we lost touch. I have a lovely picture of us all at a 21st. in The Hylands Hotel - Filey. I was at the house almost every day as Dixie would come to Filey for most of the week - dont know when she managed to work at the factory. I remember Gordon getting very ill but he managed to see her married. I tried to trace her some years ago but to no avail then just this year was told that she had died - it came as a huge shock! We were the same age and my initials are not BM.I recall Tommy passing his driving test - he loved driving. Dont know what happened to him!

We moved down to Hertfordshire in 1970. For years I tried to loose my Sheffield accent but it was so hard. Now I'm much older I dont bother anymore. I never have to give my name over the phone as people reconise my accent. I seem to laugh more and take great plesure in shouting "ay up" if someone trips up etc. Just last week someone said to me "you from Sheffield". Feels good!!!

I remember Tommy very well - didnt seem to fit in somehow. No I cant tremember the tulip rally though. It was in the days when Dixie was going out with the son of the Top House owners in Filey. Big crowd of us went about together.

I was a big friend of Dixie Wilson in the 60's. I knew all the family well. They used to come to Filey all the time and I spent many a happy hour with them all. Dixie used to come and pick me up in the Rolls when she was able to have it and we would go for a drive laughing our heads off. Mrs Wilson would go and pick up fish and chips in the Rolls with her hair in rollers and wearing a white mink coat. When it was Dixie's 21st Birthday - the family gave her a white MGB GT with gold plated keys all tied up in a pink ribbon. The morning after the lavish "do" we went for a drive round Dore - it was realy living. I myself came from a very humble background but it didn't matter to the Wilson's - they took people a face value. I moved down south and lost touch with Dixie. Just recently when I saw a friend from the past - he told me Dixie had died in her 40's. Does anyone know if this is tru?

I was there in the 50's. I came from a private school in Boston Spa but the kids at Prince Edward were realy kind to me. The only person I can remember the name of is June Buxton. She was always so well dressed and her parents lived in the prefabs nearby.