My grandfather Frederick Cooper told me the following story about his time working for our local family firm of builders and decorators, W.J. Cooper & Son. In the late 1930s, Geoff and I had to take out an old kitchen range and replace the range with a fireplace in Rebels […]
Monthly archives: October 2020
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My father Frederick John Cooper, having just obtained his driving licence, purchased a secondhand, black Austin Seven saloon car. He must have been about 21 at the time. Luckily the Austin just passed through the gate at the rear of 107 Milton Street. Grandfather came out of the back door […]
In 1962 W.J. Cooper & Son, a local building and decorating firm run by my father Fred and his uncles Geoff, Fred and Bill, was given a building contract by Mr Lewis, an architect and the owner of an old cottage on the corner of West Street and North Road […]
An 8-day drive around Germany and Austria Thinking about it, I suppose I have always been a bit of a petrolhead. Ever since my Dad’s first 1956 Morris Oxford, when I was knee high to a grasshopper, I took an interest in cars and also in overseas travel. Long before […]
As many owners will know, the ‘A’ pillars on an XK8 are covered with a nylon-backed material, glued on at the factory. After time, this glue disintegrates and the nylon begins to lift off the plastic-fronted ‘A’ pillar posts, obviously looking unsightly. I decided to replace the nylon on my […]
Unlucky number 13. 404, the internet code for error. Evil 666, the number of the beast… yes, but please bow for 2020, perhaps the worst number of all (and incidentally divided by five equals 404). This year has certainly been a disappointment with no shows, club meetings or social gatherings […]