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• Six Years Have Passed

  

  Dad, I have missed this past six years talking to you about Sporting History. I try to keep my memory fresh, but without your opinions on rules, players, and referees especially I have a hole in my life. I think about you most days and hope your spirit can hear me.

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  By STEPHEN CALDWELL on 12th Sep 2011

• FATHERS DAY REMEMBRANCE

  

  I am watching the US Open golf on Fathers Day and reminded me of those happy days on holiday as a kid with Dad on the mini golf or crazy golf courses. Hope you are watching from a 19th hole somewhere Dad. Love Stephen.

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  By STEPHEN CALDWELL on 19th Jun 2011

• Birthday rememberance

  

  Today would have been Dad's 84th birthday. I was thinking this morning about his enjoyment of cricket and how he would be thrilled to see England retain the Ashes. Hope your spirit is slamming an off drive through the covers!

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  By STEPHEN CALDWELL on 4th Jan 2011

• Remembering

  

  I write this in advance of the 5th anniversary of Dad's passing. This year I particularly miss our conversations about sport and the rules of the games. RIP cricket fan.

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  By STEPHEN CALDWELL on 11th Sep 2010

• Whatever else we fail...

  Whatever else we fail to do,
  We never fail to think of you.

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  By STEPHEN CALDWELL on 3rd Jan 2010

• I am writing this...

  I am writing this in advance of what would have been Dad's 83rd birthday had he lived on to 4th January 2010. I am remembering the time in the Workingmens Club one Xmas in the 1970s when I was working as temporary bar staff. Dad was in the Lounge having a seasonal drink when I had news that he had been knocked off his seat. It turned out a brother and sister near him had a punch up and one fell over and knocked Dad off his chair. The Club Manager was so upset that one of his regulars was accidentally involved, he took action. The Club Manager had an old army bayonet oin the back which he used to drive the brother and sister out of the place. I checked on Dad and he was fine. I apologized for only being available to pour his beer that night and not to act as bodyguard. Rest in peace, Dad.

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  By STEPHEN CALDWELL on 3rd Jan 2010

• Thank's to Steve for...

  Thank's to Steve for sharing more memories. Four years since Dad's passing and he is still a strong guiding influence in my life.

  Every time I see sweet peas I think of Dad. Whenever I came home and they were in bloom he would go out to the garden, pick some, wrap them carefully in dampened newspaper for me to take back with me. Words weren't needed; a father's love for his daughter simply blossomed.

  Alison

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  By Alison Robb-Webb on 11th Sep 2009

• No matter how life...

  No matter how life changes,
  no matter what I do,
  A special place inside my heart,
  Is set aside for you.

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  By STEPHEN CALDWELL on 10th Sep 2009

• So, we now reach...

  So, we now reach the fourth anniversary of Dad's passing (on 12th September) and I still regularly think of him and some memories. I will share a couple with you, the reader, today.

  We used to play this dart game "cricket" where you hit the numbers to score runs and take wickets. The dart board was placed in the living room on the wall. I can tell you when all six of us played that game for a week and missed the board, the wallpaper had more holes in it than Swiss cheese!

  The 2nd story is an observation. When Dad was at a party, trying to buy your own drink was damn near impossible. He would race to the bar or shout over waving a note so he could buy the round. Try to do the opposite and you would be greeted with "put your money away, you need it for other things" and again the note would be waved at you. In the end, the only way I could buy him a drink was to leave money behind the bar with an employee, so when he tried to pay he got a full refund!

  R-I-P Dad

  Love,

  Stephen

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  By STEPHEN CALDWELL on 10th Sep 2009

• Charlie was a brother-in-law...

  Charlie was a brother-in-law I could really get along with, we had some good times joining-in his 'Trivia Quiz's. (I eventually came to the conclusion that he was probably more knowledgeable than was good for him! ) Yep - I always was a bad loser!
  Remember him often.
  Eric.

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  By Eric Simcox on 30th Jan 2009

• I have very fond...

  I have very fond memories of Charlie. As the kid sister of his wife, Thelma, they used to take me walking with them around Ettiley Heath with his black labrador dog. He also took me and my sister to our first visit to a circus and made sure we had ringside seats so the clowns could throw their buckets of water at us! Happy Memories!

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  By Margaret Morris on 30th Jan 2009

• Time may pass and...

  Time may pass and fade away,
  But silent thoughts and memories stay.

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  By STEPHEN CALDWELL on 2nd Jan 2009

• I am posting this...

  I am posting this message in advance of the 82nd anniversary of Dad's birth. I still think of him regularly. The other day I was reminding myself of how he used to walk the 2 miles to Trubshaw Cross in Tunstall on a Sunday morning in the 1970s to watch me play football with the Burslem United "Ladsndads" team.

  I played 2 seasons for them and in the first season I had Neville and Mark Chamberlain as teammates. Neville played for the Vale for several years and Mark played for Sheffield Wednesday and won a couple of England caps.

  Other regular members of the team as I recall were school mates Rob Faulkener, Neil Powell, David Ashworth, and Steven Lewis.

  Thanks Dad for the interest and support. I will have a pint in your honour on the 4th, even though it will be American ale!

  Your loving son,

  Stephen

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  By STEPHEN CALDWELL on 2nd Jan 2009

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