Marianos Photos

Well, Happy New Year to everyone, here we have the first lot of photos of the new year and these feature some friends of Mariano's - a lovely photo of Harry & Sandra! Can anyone remember Ernie & his wife Lynn?....(sorry its taken so long for me to use your photos Mariano!)

Can we help Ross?

 
Ross has sent in this email wanting any info about his uncle Roy Jennings who worked in Lloret in the 80s. He has come across a photo of him on the site, which you can see by scrolling back to 17th December.
If anyone out there can give any information about Roy please leave a comment under this post....it would be nice to fill in a few gaps for Ross's family at this time of year.

I have just stumbled across your 'Lloret De Mar Old Stuff' site by accident tonight whilst trying to research the area in the 80's.
My uncle used to live and work in Lloret in the mid to late 70's through to the mid 80's.
Sadly he died in Lloret in 1986 and I'm trying to find people that may of known him well and may have information about his life and death.?

Weirdly by a unbelievable coincidence he is in a photo that was posted earlier this month by a Brian!!!!
I have commented to ask about him on the photos comments.

I wanted to contact you to see if you may be able to help me please?
I've never used blogging style sites but I was wondering if you could do a general announcement to call to anybody that uses your site for information on my uncle.?

Sorry if this is asking too much but I really want to find more about him and his life.
My grandparents were too hurt and didn't handle losing him very well so they played ignorant as their way of dealing with it, leaving us knowing very little.
Even my father his brother doesn't seem too informed about his Spanish life and it being so many years later his memory isn't helping!

Hope you can help me.

Happy new year.

Regards,
Ross.

Para Alan update

I've been asked to put out a brief statement about what we know so far about Alan's death. As most of us know he had been unwell for quite a long time now, but just recently had not been coming out of his home. People have been nipping up there to make sure he was ok on a daily basis.
On the 27th there was no reply at the door the police were called and they found him in his bed. He had been dead for 24hours or less. The case has now been passed over to the British Consulate, and it's up to them to find any relatives. He did have sisters but no body knows of their whereabouts. It is hoped that they can be traced as we all hope he can have a proper service with his ashes scattered out at sea.

Sad news at Christmas

'Para' Alan on the right in the photo above

 Sorry to be breaking more bad news... but we have just heard the terrible news that Alan (para) has died today at his home in Lloret after a long illness. I'll give more details later when I hear any thing.
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Old Lloret Scenes

I hope you all had a great day yesterday and your not all suffering too much this morning!

I'vestill got several photos from the exhibition of old pics that was in Lloret a few weeks ago, so just a bit of a guessing game today with these street scenes.....it shouldn't be too hard.

How many of you remember staggering up and down
these steps?

The bar on this street is called ??

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Photos from ??

Thanks to (l wont say who) for passing on these not so old photos, they show 3 people having a fantastic time meeting up for the first time in 30 years ... but can anyone name them?

A special message

I've had an email from Pat Murphy asking if l could pass on some information about Peter Piper, so here's a copy of his message....

Hi Jackie,
Pat Murphy here, hope you and yours are well, I didn't make the re-union this year but hopefully 2012 fingers crossed. Could you do me a favour could you let anyone or everyone who knew him that Graham Heywood aka THE PUFF aka Peter Piper who sang with Jeff Fartuncle in the Duke of York amongst other things is alive and well and appearing alongside Shane Ritchie in Aladdin at the Cliffs Pavillion in Southend on Sea. He said he's lost touch with a lot of people but sends everyone his regards and wishes them well and hopefully I can talk him into going to the next re-union. He has been on the website but doesn't quite know how to use it. Anyone going on a cruise this year look out for Peter Piper.
 
Many thanks Jackie have a very merry christmas and a happy new year same applies to anyone who knows me.
 
Cheers Pat

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