Ex visiter staff

[Mandygolding]

Hi Mandy, amazing how one thing leads to another. It was just one question, whatever happened to Derek brown, and a whole world of memories eventuates. People I have forgotten from 40 years back. So you are retired like me, yet I remember you as a gorgeous young woman. I got married in hong kong in 1974 and we will celebrate our 40th anniversary this year. We have three children and two grandchildren.
For chrissake what happened? My email is cridbit@bigpond.com

Hi John, yes, it really is strange how an idle "whatever happened to?" moment at the weekend, led me to this Forum. And then I saw your name with a post sent on the very same day! Suddenly I was transported back to my first day in journalism on the Formby Times. There was your good self, Barbara Taylor, Mary Ross and Frances Landesman if I remember correctly. Anyway it's lovely to hear that you're still alive and kicking. When did you leave the Visiter? I think there was some talk of you getting a job in Hong Kong but you seemed to disappear without trace. It sounds as though you have a great life out there in Aus .Col and I celebrate our Ruby wedding anniversary too this year. We don't have any kids but are busy enough despite retiring seven years ago. My email is amanda_brown15@hotmail.com.

[Liverbird5]

Hi John, Remember me I started at the Formby Times in 1968 when you were news editor there? Derek Brown retired from the Guardian to Herefordshire but died in 2011 . And I spoke to Ethel Brew in 2000 at the weekly newspaper she was editing in Chesham Buckinghamshire shortly before she retired.Don't know if you remember but she married Alan Brew but they later divorced. She has a son I think he's called Daniel. I have a feeling that Julian Desser runs his own PR company but don't know what happened to Steve Hirst. Muriel Kealt was at a Crosby Herald reunion in 2000 that I went to, but she sadly died a couple of years later. There's a photo on the Southport Forum taken at Cliff Bircall's leaving do. He went to the Ormskirk Advertiser. Anyway you are seated at a table with Ethel and Derek Brown is there in a bow tie. Steve Hirst and Julian Desser are also in shot. Have a look it will jog the old memory bank.I married Colin Brown who worked in the Ormskirk Office with Derek Woods. We eventually moved to London and became Parliamentary journalists. I worked for PA for 27 years and Colin was on the Guardian Independent and Sunday Telegraph. We are both now retired. Cheers Mandy.

Hello Mandy and all in thread
I have to tell you all that Ethel Brew died on 19th May 2018, i am her sister Julie. She died 16 months after being diagnosed with oesophageal cancer, she died at home. Her funeral was on 6th June. Her ashes are being scattered on the Mersey on 15th July.
I just thought you should know.
Julie