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40the <strong>Old</strong> <strong>Scarborians</strong> website on the noticeboard section. Thereʹs quite a few commentsabout ʺMaulerʺ, aka ʺMickeyʺ, following aquery I popped in a few months ago.Also I had no idea that you had musical talents!Did Mr Costain (the school musicteacher, if I recall correctly) know ?I think Arthur followed the same format asmost of the staff. Forget individual leanings.Treat ʹem all the same. I had done a lot ofstage drama work in junior school and wasthe teacherʹs pet in all acting productions.None of this surfaced at SBHS under SamRockinghorse. Not until College did I becomeinvolved in acting, stage management, directing,producing, eventually finishing up at theBirmingham Repertory Theatre in 1983 for theCitizensʹ Theatre Group in a two handercalled ʺAlas Poor Fredʺ.The list of people you worked with is veryimpressive and you must have some greatmemories and stories to tell. What was thename of your band ?We started off at City of Birmingham Collegeof Education just for a laugh playing rubbishat the college hops. Free entry was offered tothe student who came up with a catchy nameand for years we were ʺThe Vacant Lot BeatBandʺ. As the group became more adept weaccepted a residency at ʹThe Rum Runnerʹnightclub in Broad Street Birmingham, thesame venue from which Duran Duran sprangabout a decade later. Here we became ʺTheRum Runner Katzʺ or just ʺKatzʺ. Tentativeearly records were made under this name includingEP ʺKatz Live at the Rum Runnerʺ.Did you ever appear on TV?We passed the audition for the Hughie GreenShow but for some unknown reason it wasaxed.or were any of your your bands records everplayed on the radio?Some air time was given on Radio One butThe Palm Court is a 3 Star Hotel with a superb central location and guaranteed free covered parking,minutes to the beach, town centre, theatres, Spa.All 47 bedrooms en-suite with colour television, tea / coffee facilities, telephone. Ideal for the discerningconference delegate offering in-house conference facilities in the hotel's purpose builtconference suite.The elegant Rosedale Restaurant offers full traditional English breakfast, Table D'Hote and A laCarte evening dinner. Adjacent is the Troutsdale Ballroom which is available for private functionsor a conference suite seating up to 200 guests.Other facilities include Indoor heated Swimming Pool, Cocktail Bar, Lift to all floors, Weekend,midweek, weekly breaks all year, Saturday Dinner Dances, Christmas and New Year breaks.Rates: B & B £28.00 - £46.00
41mainly the group were known on the hospitalradio circuits. Sales were always disappointing.Do you still have any of your records?Records were made under the name of CinnamonQuill and are still available as specialcollections on the Morgan Label. By the timethe name was Cinnamon Quill, I had left. Myrecords have gradually been ʺborrowedʺ overthe years without trace except for reel to reeltapings.Your attainment of a B.Phil is also impressive!I never even took the professional quantitysurveying qualifications. It never seemednecessary as I never had to look for work.Once I got started in Bournemouth I was alwaysable to move from job to job throughpersonal contact or recommendation. Theonly job I actually had to apply for was towork for John Laing Construction on the M1.I had since I was very tiny had an interest inhypnosis when I first read up about Freudʹsattempts to use it followed by my mum takingme to a stage hypnotism show at an oldchurch on Longwestgate about 1948.The B.Phil was an educational psychologybased degree without the rigors of an EdPsych proper. Not only did this open up possibilitiesof school based advancement but itoffered the chance to follow up with a furtherqualification in clinical hypnosis and psychotherapy.I opened the Dudley HypnotherapyCentre in 1984 working from time to timein Midland hospitals and even having a surgeryin the Helios Health and Leisure Centrewhich was the site of the Health Club in theold TV series of ʺCrossroadsʺ.Iʹm surprised you ever imagined that I was abrain box! I did start off doing very well forthe first couple of years but went down hillrapidly after that due to being absent throughillness and injury quite frequently. I can notaccurately remember when the various eventsoccurred but the first was because I had tohave an operation to remove my appendix. Afew months after that I managed to fracturemy skull by riding, head first, into the back ofa lorry whilst cycling back to school after thelunch break.Perhaps it was your early academic effortsthat I remember. I do vaguely recall yourencounter with the lorry and your scarredand shaven head in the aftermath. Iʹm impressedby your overcoming the set backs ofsuch a difficult period. My failure to striveand thrive at school was simply a case ofchip on shoulder bad attitude.I then had meningitis on two occasions, a fewmonths apart, and following tests and x-raysit was discovered that when my scull wasfractured a membrane in my scull was puncturedwhich was causing the meningitis. Thecure for my problems was not available atScarborough Hospital so I was sent to a hospitalin Newcastle-on-Tyne. The first operationthey performed was unsuccessful and Iwas re-admitted for a second attempt. Fortunatelythat was a success ! I think that all theforgoing occurred during the second andthird years. Immediately after the final operationI had to go to Scarborough Hospital fortreatment three times a week, first thing inthe morning. As I was late for school on theseoccasions my mother always provided mewith a note which I dutifully handed in toJoey Marsden. After receiving a substantialnumber of notes he told me not to botherbringing any more! As my number of visits tothe hospital decreased I had, and used, theopportunity to stay away from school for thefirst period many times when there wassomething I wanted to avoid. I had missed somuch school time that it was impossible tocatch up in some subjects and Joey gave methe opportunity to opt out of some subjects toenable me to try to catch up in others. I gaveup chemistry and physics and biology to concentrateon geography and history. I was allowedto study in the hall on my own.Enough of my school life.My self imposed experience was similar yet
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