This week's feedback commences with an email from Christine Hesslegrave, who's been reflecting on the content of recent TRMs.
"Hi Jeff... it must be satisfying to write your column each week, knowing there'll be hundreds of people out there saying: "I wonder what he'll have for us this time." Well, I couldn't let this week's TRM go by without a response. Lovely to read another 'Mike' (Walters) anecdote; so easy to picture the tree across his shoulders. The bit that brought me to the computer, though, was the mention of the Priory Rd and Hakin Point Methodist Church Year Book. All the names immediately conjured up the people, and the influence so many of them had on our young lives through chapel and Sunday School. Mr Lloyd was TJ by the way, not JT. I've just checked the labels in my Sunday School prize books, which bear his signature. Mr Lloyd would greet us each week from his table by the door as we went into Sunday School at 2.30pm on a Sunday afternoon, and we'd hand over our 'star card' so he'd confirm our attendance by stamping it with a little purple 'flower.' His ink pad was always purple. During the week he'd be found at Milford Station as stationmaster. Interesting that this week's paper has an article about the 'vision' for the station. Back in the day it had proper buildings, waiting room... What changed all that?