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YOUR LETTERS The Wrekin’s most read pages! email the Editor: dave.gregory@ppmedia.co.uk send your letters to: Wrekin News Bridge Road, Wellington, Telford Shropshire TF1 1RY Ken flirts with brass! EVENTUALLY I sold the Whaley Bridge insurance round for a profit and bought another one in a wealthier area named Disley in Cheshire. I paid my debts off and managed to buy a new motor-bike; a 197cc James. I had also joined Thornsett Brass band and learned to play tenor horn, just to keep reading music. But alas, the band-leader, a Harry Sharkit, a nice chap, asked me if I would take the learners and help bring them on. I accepted this challenge and we fixed a convenient night. He also told me about my Uncle Tommy who used to play cornet in the pit orchestras for silent films in the 1930’s. The tuition night got so popular that the senior members started to turn up till I had more people than the proper band rehearsal. So the treasurer, who didn’t seem to like this ‘young know-all’, changed the night which was not suitable to me so my brass band career ended. It was fortunate because shortly after that, Jack Cooper from the Delphians Band came to see me to inform me he was packing in the big band to take a trio into a local hotel and would I like to take over the Delphians? Immediately the lure of the big band came back to me and I accepted. Jack took the drummer and the bass player with him, which meant that I had to look for at least a drummer and a pianist. In the meantime I had to tell Jimmy Fox I would be leaving him, and he said: “I knew you would be going back one day, good luck.” The first thing I did was to call a rehearsal and told 16 / www.wrekinnews.co.uk Ken Nelson has a flirtation with a brass band before going back into dance bands. the chaps the style we had to start playing. No more nanny-goat vibrato, we needed precise tonguing and much more attention to dynamics, this sorted the men out from the boys. After the first rehearsal they all handed in their notices, except a pianist that Jack Cooper had recommended. He was called Evan Harrop, a quiet unassuming guy who only seemed to be playing right hand melody and not the black cords I wanted. Consequently it meant me going into Manchester to the different jazz and big band clubs and I was very lucky because I came across a chap called John Coleman who worked in the Yorkshire Bank. He said he played piano but wanted to change and The original Ron’s rantings were about concerns for A&E writes Vic Tonks but then politics took over. I have never said that we should lose that service and I believe that you and the editor are wrong to use the NHS as a political football. The NHS should be taken out of the political arena and should be run by people who are dedicated to successfully running it for the benefit of British people. Political ramblings have no place in such an important matter as NHS hospital services. Ron Munt is deceiving himself and the public play trumpet. While I was talking with him he introduced me to a tenor sax player called Gilly Monks and I asked both to come to an audition. The band was slowly coming along and I decided I had to have a car so I sold the motor-bike and bought a 1937 Ford for £50 – it was one of the famous £100 prewar Fords. We had taken on many musicians by this time but now I had to find the band some work. I rang an agent I knew, he was a bit of a wide-boy but beggars can’t be choosers; his name was Charlie Clarke. He came to a rehearsal and immediately gave us about a dozen jobs but they were all over the north-west which would mean transport. Tony, the Politics takes over says Vic in claiming the people of Shropshire are undeserving of a new acute hospital equipped with innovative critical care facilities. Ron has no justification for dumbing down Telford & Wrekin in denying people the best medical attention. Patients travel on a regular basis to get the best treatment to places such as Oswestry, Stoke, QE and New Cross and do not complain about it being too far. Having such services localised would be a massive step forward. The statement that Shrewsbury is smaller than Telford does not hold water as Shrewsbury caters for near 200,000 people as the largest inland county and the service extends to Powys. Ron and the editor appear to accept that population growth in Shropshire including Telford & Wrekin is a factor in the overwhelming of hospital services yet neither wants a solution. Their parochial stance of no change keep things as they are is alarming especially, when readily praising the care given from RSH and PRH. No one can dispute a new super hospital is the way forward, the NHS has already undergone great changes things have to change to accommodate an evolving universe many tried and tested regimes are now seen to be unworkable in a modern age, and hospitals seem to be specialising more and more. Ron and the editor have displayed an ignorance of reality and just how out of touch they are with society. Pouring scorn on unconventional ideas is to destroy any hope of a thriving future for our NHS. Instead of burying heads in the sand and defiling a national treasure it is time to embrace the notion of a brand new hospital serving the whole of Shropshire and welcome the opportunities of more jobs, drummer, had a van so I traded my car for a Bedford Dormobile with the firm I worked for. It had six seats and room for the kit, Tony took the rest of the band. It was suggested we dropped the flower name (Delphians) so from then on the band was called the Ken Nelson Band. At about this time Linda and I became eligible for a council house, and although her parents had been very good to us since I was demobbed, it was wonderful to at last have a place of our own. At this time I also changed my place of work to Horns of Stockport, much more convenient and a lovely family garage to work for. They also provided a car which meant I was not using my petrol except for the band work. This was just as well due to the long distance work Charlie was giving us such as Pontefract, Coleville, Fleetwood, Crewe and most towns in between! specialist consultants and staff with experience and skills to operate state of the art equipment. Ed. Thanks, Vic, you put an eloquent argument for Telford people once again having to get into their cars and drive many miles for the treatment that has been established in their own borough. I am not convinced and to be perfectly honest, Telford became a unitary authority many years ago and has prospered ever since. We are big enough to stand on our own two feet without having to be concerned about people living on the Welsh border.
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