Do you know where Tony is?
Published Date:
21 August 2008
By Staff Copy
SIR — In 1956 I joined the Sherwood Foresters Band and went first to Germany and then to Malaya and Singapore from 1958 to 1961.
With me in the band was Tony Wilde. Later, when we both came out of the Army, Tony had a local dance band called the Tony Weaver Quintet (he used his mother's maiden name because he didn't want people to confuse him with Marty Wilde) in which I played until moving to live in Devon in 1965.
Tony was also a percussionist in the Staveley Ironworks Brass Band and also Sheffield Symphony Orchestra.
His parents were the landlord and landly of the Welbeck Inn public house in the Market Place in Chesterfield. He was a carpenter by trade and had a workshop near Derby Road.
I have seen him once since 1965 and have tried unsuccessfully to find him in the Chesterfield area and wondered if anyone knew him, or his whereabouts, so that we could contact each other again.
ANDY ANDREWS,
18 Thameside Court,
Northmoor,
Witney, Oxon,
(tel. 07905170591)
The full article contains 180 words and appears in Derbyshire Times newspaper.
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Last Updated:
20 August 2008 4:15 PM
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Source:
Derbyshire Times
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Location:
Chesterfield
