"Billy Cotton coming to see us children..."
Mary Dechant nee Carr writes:
Hi I was a patient at QM for many years and remeber very well Billy Cotton coming to see us children regulaly (senoir) as he is now. Acually I dont know if he is still alive., I think his son Billy Cotton junior is now head of the BBC.
I also sang a Christmas carole on a show broadcast from there in 1952 on Christmas day and I still have the newspaper cutting from that. We would have lots of celebrities of that time come to visit us.
I remember a singing trio called Jhonny and the keynotes, also Donald Cambell who broke the world land speed record in a car of somesorts called "Bluebird" There was a boxer "Freddy" something! ( I believe he was found murdered in his car some years ago)!
One of the most memorable was a "cowboy" on a huge white horse called Call McCord and I have a picture of myself getting his autograph from my bed at one of our fetes. Not sure if this is the sort of thing that you are looking for. [Yes it is! Editor]
Regards Mary Dechant
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Call McCord
I too remember being at the fete when Cal McCord and Freddie Mills the boxer came and I also have their autographs. I was in ward D7 and I can remember one nurse whose surname was Wrigley and another nurse named Gemma Belgrade.