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Colin Earl, Brian Perkins & Ian
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In
2000, Colin
Earl from the Hilltop estate asked me to try and get in touch
with
Brian Perkins
who he had not seen
for about ten years. John Draper informed me that Brian had actually
visited the site and so I put an appeal out. Within a couple of weeks,
Brian sent e-mail to the site and he and Colin are now in touch. I also
received e-mail from
Ian Smallman
(below) who saw the appeal and is now living in Ward Green. Ian said he
remembered Brian and Colin from 1957 when they mated about together on
Hodroyd Cottages. I have now put Ian in touch with Brian and Colin.
Hello
Gary,
I
opened up your site today and found that Colin Earl wanted to contact me.
You said that Colin was not on the Internet at the moment and that you would
pass on a message. (Brian's message has been
passed on to Colin in confidence). If
possible could you also get me Colin’s contact details so that I can write
him a full letter? I must say that your web site is an excellent source of
history on our village and even though I have not lived there in 33 years I
still am and will always be a Brierley Boy. I see that you have photographs.
The teachers I remember are Mrs Thorpe, Mrs Fox and Mr Balmforth Headmaster.
I will have a look and see if I have any Photos and if so I will send
reprints over to you for your collection. Well Gary I would like to thank
you for helping me out in Contacting Colin and I wish you all the best. If
anyone else wishes to contact me could you please just pass on my contact
details.
Brian
Perkins
AUSTRALIA
Thank
you for your E-mail Brian and I am glad that I have been a help to both you
and Colin. I have passed on your details to him today and he was really
pleased, I am told that he has spoken about nothing else all day. He informs
me that he is going to write to you with his address as soon as possible. I
am a little bit busy at the moment and I don't have time to go through the
full collection of photographs, (I have over 1000 now) especially with my
next exhibition just round the corner, but one particular photograph that
springs to mind is one of the Three Horse Shoes trip to Southport flower
show (Do you remember?). There was only one person on it that I didn't have
a name for, but someone at the last exhibition named the chap as YES!!
You've guessed it Brian
Perkins. In
the New Year I am hoping to add lots of photographs to the web site and if I
come across any that you are on, I spoke to Mrs Thorpe by telephone last week although
I have not actually seen her myself for at least 32 years. I was surprised
to learn that she still lives in Brierley, Mrs Horton another Brierley
schoolteacher still visits her. Sadly Mrs Fox passed away a few years ago
and the last I heard of Mr Balmforth was that he went into a home about
three years ago when he began to suffer bad health. Keep in touch with the
site, as I am sure you will find it more interesting in the New Year when I
start doing the archive pages.