Find A Friend

[potiche]

Here's a challenge, just for fun! Looking for John, from Middlesborough, parents had a fish & chip shop. He lived in London in the late 1970's, living in Kew, working as a chemical engineer. I'm not holding my breath on this one!

[Zacs-Master]

Helluva challenge with no surname.

[kvalidir]

Give us a surname and we'll try to find him as Zacs says, men are usually not that hard to trace unless they want to disappear.

[Old_Geezer]

Aye, they're usually at the pub, or down the dog track.

[gulliver1]

O/G LOL .

[237SJ]

Where did he work?

[douglas9401]

"men are usually not that hard to trace unless they want to disappear"

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[potiche]

C'mon... lol......lets try harder guys......1976... how many fish & chip shops were there in Middlesborough? Probably not as many as there were pubs Im guessing.

[Eve]

Is there a local Facebook group you could put a post on for Middlesbrough. More likely on there that someone might remember something, or know someone who does.

[237SJ]

Could he be the son mentioned in this article? https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/local-news/tributes-linthorpe-chip-shop-stalwart-3676186

[potiche]

Brill, grateful for that SJ .... dates all tie in, only difference is that was Mum's rather than parent's business. It's a definate start & I'll take it from here. Thanks

[scooping]

Tried linked-in. As a 'professional' could well be on that (and Facebook). Local papers are usually happy to carry appeals in their editorial pages as some of these turn out to be happy stories.

[atalanta]

I lost touch with a friend when my address book was stolen, so I wrote to the local paper where I thought she might be living. I found her ! She had married and changed her name, but we kept in touch thereafter until she died.