This October marks 25 years since the Jaguar XK8 (project code X100) was launched in 1996. It replaced the ageing XJS that had been in production for 21 years, following various revisions throughout its life. The new model was dramatically revealed from a wooden crate as part of the press […]
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This story was told to me by my Uncle Geoff Cooper, one of a series from my family’s local building and decorating firm W.J.Cooper & Son. “Just after the war when my Dad, your Granddad, was still running the firm, Harold Morris and I had to go down to Manor […]
By 1930, when my Dad Frederick Cooper was about 19 years old, he had become somewhat proficient in raking out and re-pointing brickwork. He was asked by Mr Brutton, a local bicycle shop owner in Tunbridge Road, to rake out and re-point three houses that he owned somewhere else in […]