Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Also use to hear a lot of the gossip from the Palace workers , but didn't say what.

haystack

not sure offhand , but about late 50's. let you know when i checked.

My father got his in 1954. The order is different to the medal. The order is a bit like the order of the garter. They have a service together in St Geoge's chapel and have a procession wearing the order. It ceases on your death as it is a membership system.

He got his while working at the palace before and after the coronation. Then he went round the world 1953/4 on the Royal Tour for 6 months. He used to go up to Balmoral and Windsor at various times.

Phew!

Very interesting alders and Hays. I like personal history like that. I always find it very educating and exciting in a way.

Afraid my family dont have anything like that, although my uncle who played cricket for Yorkshire and England Johnny Wardle once shook a kings hand at lords or so goes the family tale.

Which King I dont know, havent a clue about that side of History, I did economic and social.

does my younger son get a medal for eating in a penis restaurant in beijing?

He certainly deserves a medal - yuck!

he commented that it was interesting :-)

a penis restaurant , sound's like a Gay restaurant [ eating a penis ]

The question is - who's penis or what's penis.

haystack

I have a photo of my grandad meeting the Queen at J Lyon's , Hammersmith road.

I will upload it , if i can find it.

dog, bull ... can't remember what else he told me

Did you know that Nigella's mother's family owned J Lyons.

I'm surprised she isn't a politician.

Please alders if you can get your hands on it,

I finds this all very interesting.

Hays do you have any going back to early Thershers days???????

aldwickk 07 Jan 2014 19:40 - 35234 of 35237

haystack

I have a photo of my grandad meeting the Queen at J Lyon's , Hammersmith road.

I will upload it , if i can find it.

gf
I think you have seen this before

Here is a Pathe news of the photo above being taken. My father is at the left of the middle row looking at the picture. The tall guy next to him is the Queen's detective. The tall guy behind the Queen is princess Di's father. The film clip will only play on a PC and not a tablet. The photo is being taken at about 1 minute 58 seconds into clip.

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/queen-with-gothic-ships-company/query/gothic

Hay's

Great photo ., yes i have just found the photo. I only found out about Nigella's mother's family owned J Lyons. when i was reading about her court case , i alway's thought it was the Salmon family.

My Grandad's name was Tom Barrett , and he worked there for 50 years i think and retired about 1965.

It was the salmon family. Her mother was a Salmon. Vanessa Salmon.

I thought at the least she would have been a goldfish.