And Away - Bob Mortimer

norfolkngood said:
Of course, that's logical. I had mates who lived in Coniston and Windermere, but never heard it described as the Lakes Estate.
Andy McDonald MP was from Coniston.
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I lived there between 1966 and 1980, and it was never known as the Lakes Estate, maybe that's what other people called it. Andy Mcdonald was an old school mate of mine, I can confirm that he lived on Coniston.
 
I read Bob’s book two summers back whilst holidaying in France and really enjoyed it.

I usually whinge at the wife for burying herself in a book whilst we are away but it was the other way round when reading this book, I couldn’t put it down and wanted it to last longer.
 
Read the book in hospital 2 years ago waiting for my own triple bypass. It is quite detailed about the procedure but the book as a whole is brilliant. Have also listened to the audiobook version since.
 
A great read. Trying to remember the name of that dentist on Roman Rd. Woodiwiss. Daniels? I had some pretty grim experiences in there.

Pretty sure I played football with Bob on Tollesby Fields a fair few times. Deffo remember his mate Keith. And he dated a friend of mine, who he talks about in the book .... Sharon.
 
borolad259 said:
A great read. Trying to remember the name of that dentist on Roman Rd. Woodiwiss. Daniels? I had some pretty grim experiences in there.

Pretty sure I played football with Bob on Tollesby Fields a fair few times. Deffo remember his mate Keith. And he dated a friend of mine, who he talks about in the book .... Sharon.
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Those names sound familiar. Think there was also a Dredge at that surgery.
 
I genuinely love Bob Mortimer.
His AB is fabulous and so touching.
He’s the person I’ve not met who Id most love to just have a pint with.
I’ve read Satsuma Complex and was probably less taken by it, but still read it double quick because it is him.
I’m not interested in fishing but could watch him with Paul on riverbanks every day of the week.
He is a weird figure in my life. To me he is the kindest caricature of a Boro lad I can imagine.
He seems the amalgam of bits of some of the nicest, sharpest, funniest, warmest, most humble people I have met from our great area.
To see him smile is infectious, to hear him laugh (often at himself) is one of life’s pure joys.
Long may he thrive, stay healthy, be happy and feel like sharing some of himself with us.
A proper gadgie.
Big love to you Bob.
 
borolad259 said:
A great read. Trying to remember the name of that dentist on Roman Rd. Woodiwiss. Daniels? I had some pretty grim experiences in there.

Pretty sure I played football with Bob on Tollesby Fields a fair few times. Deffo remember his mate Keith. And he dated a friend of mine, who he talks about in the book .... Sharon.
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Woodiwiss and Daniels. Correct. Woodiwiss also known as the butcher.

And as DickiJim says, there was also Dredge. Plus at a later stage there was a Geraghty, but by that stage it was getting a better place to go.
 
norfolkngood said:
Woodiwiss and Daniels. Correct. Woodiwiss also known as the butcher.

And as DickiJim says, there was also Dredge. Plus at a later stage there was a Geraghty, but by that stage it was getting a better place to go.
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Yep, I went there. Woodiwiss butchered my mouth and left me with a lifelong fear of dentists. I remember the huge brown gas mask coming down, me screaming and him kneeling on my chest to keep me pinned down till I lost consciousness. When I came round, he'd removed 10 teeth, having told my mam 3 needed to come out. I'm sure Dredge was a decent fella but not Woodiwiss The Butcher.
 
But anyway, back to Bob...

Steve Waller, who created that brilliant model of over the border that was in MIMA, and has also done work on the old cemetery on Linny Road, was iirc an old friend of his. He reckoned that all Bob's old mates actually know him as Rob.
 
norfolkngood said:
Woodiwiss and Daniels. Correct. Woodiwiss also known as the butcher.

And as DickiJim says, there was also Dredge. Plus at a later stage there was a Geraghty, but by that stage it was getting a better place to go.
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Woodiwiss took out every single one of my Mum's teeth and gave her dentures. And @HarryVegas, I have that same horrid memory of the mask coming down ... one time, the rubber block they put in my mouth, to keep my jaws open, dislodged and dropped into my throat. I tried to tell them but couldn't. Panicked and they just restrained me while I went out. Effin terror.

I remember now, was it Harry Dredge?
 
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HarryVegas said:
But anyway, back to Bob...

Steve Waller, who created that brilliant model of over the border that was in MIMA, and has also done work on the old cemetery on Linny Road, was iirc an old friend of his. He reckoned that all Bob's old mates actually know him as Rob.
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Makes sense, seeing as his birth name is Robert.
 
spanishman said:
Ah, behind the rugby and cricket ground. So I did not walk past it going to rugby. It was just close to the rugby and the bar where I had my first ever beer served to me.
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That’s a nice reference - my mum and dad were stewards of the club for around 25 years.
Many years of watching Rugby and Yorkshire Cricket club.

They are raising funds to put a seat outside the club me mums memory - she died last year.
 
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Juninhoburger said:
Makes sense, seeing as his birth name is Robert.
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He was called Robert as a nipper. I could see his front door from my bedroom window. My brothers knew him and his big brother.

My age group used to play the Theft and Shrubbery game around those streets too, but it wasn’t called that, it was called Garden Creeping, and I’d never heard the estate between Mill Hill field and Acklam Rd being called the Lakes Estate by anyone, including my friends who lived on it.

We didn’t chant “ I do beg your pardon…” sorry about that 🤣🤣🤣
 
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borolad259 said:
Woodiwiss took out every single one of my Mum's teeth and gave her dentures. And @HarryVegas, I have that same horrid memory of the mask coming down ... one time, the rubber block they put in my mouth, to keep my jaws open, dislodged and dropped into my throat. I tried to tell them but couldn't. Panicked and they just restrained me while I went out. Effin terror.

I remember now, was it Harry Dredge?
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Woodiwiss traumatised me and I didn’t go to a dentist for about seven years. I’m fine now, of course.

He took some of my crowded second teeth out leaving some baby teeth in place. I still have one of them now, in my fifties!

Daniels and Dredge both also operated out of the little surgery on Roman Rd. Did Dredge come after Woodiwiss?
 
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1finny said:
That’s a nice reference - my mum and dad were stewards of the club for around 25 years.
Many years of watching Rugby and Yorkshire Cricket club.

They are raising funds to put a seat outside the club me mums memory - she died last year.
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Sorry for your loss.

I played rugby for a junior team there. I think it was around the time that the Old brothers were playing rugby and cricket there.

If I remember rightly I also played some away matches there when I was a wicket keeper for one of the Marton Cricket Club teams.

Plus failed to get through Yorkshire cricket trials when keeping wicket in the nets there.
 
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40FootRoad said:
Dr Longbottom's surgery was on Linthorpe Road near Sacred Heart Church. He was my doctor too, he was also known as Dr.Basil. He was very short sighted I recall, but a wonderful doctor. I also lived on what Bob refers to as the 'Lakes Estate', the fruit van business he refers to was on the corner of my road.
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There was also a dentist near that surgery, Littlefield I think was mine - was a bit of a butcher I recall, but them most were back then.
 
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