The 'Globe Works', Lincoln

[Geoff-E]

Is it available in the city?

Sorry, no idea.  It's been out a few years, so possibly hard to find now. 

[mumjo]

Alienlady The Echo offices on Brayford have some of the DVDs, worth calling in if you are passing.
Otherwise order on-line from Blow by Blows website as per the link, mine came within a couple of days when i ordered all the set.

[a-l]

Thankyou both very much I am looking forward to this.      sue

[PennyvdB1949]

Hi all
my husband bought the DVD for me last Christmas via Amazon but I believe you can also order it directly from byegonefilms.org.uk
I've also just come across this on google   www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyrQtLezYR4  I remember this area so well moved to Montague St in 1960 and lived there till c67.
@ GeoffE no I don't think I remember Michael Roy and his shops. What were they and where?

Penny

[Geoff-E]

@ GeoffE no I don't think I remember Michael Roy and his shops. What were they and where?

Michael Roy was a bit of a character in his camel hair coat and kid gloves (or were they white?).  Was his hair dyed blond?  I'm not sure.

He had a second-hand shop on the corner of GN Terrace and Canwick Road.

1957 directory has
10 Canwick Rd, ROY Michl. entertainer
and
121 Ripon Street, ROY (Michl) Entertainments Agency (Michl ROY, propr)

Probably no truth in the rumour that he wrote to the queen, complaining that Pelham Bridge spoilt the view from his shop. 

[PennyvdB1949]

Hi Geoff
my dad mum and I left CliftonGrove when I was 6mths old when my dad was promoted and transferred to Yorks. He was a draughtsman / belt designer for Dawsons so I don't remember Mr Roy. Sounds a colourful character. Mum and me, my sister and brother came back to Lincoln in 1956 when my parent separated but we went to live with my grandparents at the Joiners Arms Victoria St. We used to visit my Great Aunt a lot  (Cockram family who lived 73 Canwick Road for many years) but I don't recall the second hand shop. My Great Grandparents and Great Great Grandparents lived / died at 26 Canwick Road. Was there a sort of café at the end of Canwick Road and St Andrews Street with green check curtains? As you get older you do tend to think you remember things but maybe you're misremembering.
Penny

[Geoff-E]

I was born at 26 Scorer St and lived there till I was 4.5, then we moved to Hartsholme.  My grandparents still lived in Scorer St and I used to go there for my dinner from 1958-61 and it was in those days that I saw M ROY's shop.  To return briefly to the topic, I see that what used to be Robey's canteen on the Canwick Rd/Ripon St corner is now Globe House http://tinyurl.com/ps9tghc

I don't remember your cafe   An auntie of my dad's married a MASON and they had a fruit shop at 64 Ripon St.

[a-l]

Hi Penny I remember a transport cafe being there.            sue

[PennyvdB1949]

@ Geoff E re the fruit shop owned by Masons. It wasn't the masons that later had the fruit shop in lower end of High Street (Gowts Bridge area), Corporation Street nr Clasketgate and Lamb Gardens on St Giles? There was Jeffrey Mason Snr and his son Jeffrey who in turn had a son called Tim? My Mum worked for them for MANY years and was the Manageress at the Lamb Gardens shop. Still in touch with Tim occasionally.
Penny