#camberley — Public Fediverse posts

A King George VI Pillar Box in Camberley, Surrey. View it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/r/GU15-64 #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #KingGeorgeVI #PillarBox #StandardRed #Camberley

I don’t want to be like my daddy : 1972 : Red Carpet Inn, Daytona Beach & ‘Baby Sitter’ by Betty Wright

Having answered the front door, its frame was filled by the 11pm silhouette of a large black man wearing overalls and carrying a toolbox. The only words I could discern from his Southern drawl were ‘air con’. Aha! He must have arrived to fix the air conditioning malfunction of which I had... [continues]
#Camberley #childhood #GrantGoddard #music #radio #soul #USA
https://peoplelikeyoudontworkinradio.blogspot.com/2025/09/i-dont-want-to-be-like-my-daddy-1972.html

Attempted murder on the Waterloo express? : 1971 : Bagshot railway station
Kapow! There was an explosion. Before I even grasped what had just happened, I could see I was covered with shards of glass. What was that noise? The train window I was sat next to had suddenly vanished and was in pieces on me and the seat. Luckily, I had not been looking towards the window... [continues]
#Camberley #childhood #France #GrantGoddard #Strodes #school #student #travel #train #Bagshot
https://peoplelikeyoudontworkinradio.blogspot.com/2024/04/attempted-murder-on-waterloo-express.html

You can’t tell me what I’m doing wrong… : 1976 : And Mother Makes Four, Camberley

“Why are you choosing a university so far away?” aunt Sheila demanded of me. “You should commute from home to Guildford so you can help your mum.”

I was seething. It was the first time we had spoken in years and THIS was her ‘advice’ to me? How dare she! It was three years since my middle-aged... [continues]
#Camberley #childhood, #DurhamUniversity #GrantGoddard #music #Strodes #student
https://peoplelikeyoudontworkinradio.blogspot.com/2024/03/you-cant-tell-me-what-im-doing-wrong.html

My thwarted career as teenage reggae music journalist : 1972 : Jamaica

I blame Jesse James. Though cowboys and westerns held zero interest for me, something about the record ‘Jesse James’ appealed, much as an Israeli novelty song ‘Cinderella Rockefella’ the previous year had possessed sufficient charm to become my... [continues]
#BBC #Camberley #career #CharlieGillett #childhood #GrantGoddard #Jamaica #localradio #music #radio #radiostation #recordshop #reggae #travel
https://peoplelikeyoudontworkinradio.blogspot.com/2024/01/my-thwarted-career-as-teenage-reggae.html