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Managed to track down this lot.. the unfound are in Remembered Names - also see Wally Pears' list

Ken Johnston

He's moved now (2006/2007)... to a small village (I think in Suffolk) - Laxfield - will get the details sometime (as at November 2007, he's still not provided....). All we really know for sure is his mobile phone number - 07788-671000 and the email above....

I've left the piccies below of his earlier "landlording days" - 'cos they're so nice (so English!!). The Sorrel Horse, Shottisham, Suffolk.

Photographs copyright 2002 Linn Barringer of www.WoodbridgeSuffolk.info

Paul Basson

2 Avenue Hector Otto, MC98000 Monaco Phone: +377 (0)607935165 Mobile: +377 607935165 Fax: +377 93504692

That's him at the wheel of his boat:

Home Phone: 011-787-2145 (Johannesburg - South Africa)1

1) 789-2377

Also see here...

Yes.  This is indeed me. Sitting in a game reserve watching beasts. I look forward to learning all your news for  the last thirty years.

I operate that well-known multinational software house Jack Curtis Computer Systems.  We mostly use a revolutionary new programming language - COBOL.

Could send you some inside information about COBOL if you are interested. Wheeeyaaaa !! Best regards,  Jack

jackcomp@iafrica.com

Yo! Pat!! Just received your email (August, 2004).....

http://www.britishairways.com/travel/home/public/en_gb

Pat.Taylor@britishairways.com

Len Gore

Cliff Luff

Brian Stoate

5 Eden Way, Kings Hill, West Malling, Kent ME19 4GY - Phone: +44 01732-870449 Mobile is: 44 07770-396672 or is it 44 377 0396672

Found and sort of lost again January 2009. But before all that....

Curley, You old reprobate - Haven't time to write loads now but I will later.

In the meantime great to hear from you and how is everything and bodies and such?

Regards for now- Dave Burchell

Dave.Burchell@meritec.co.uk

Jim Davis

Roger Fieldhouse

5 COPPICE AVENUE,
REDBROOK,
BARNSLEY,
S.YORKS, S75 1JW.

Phone: 44 01226 286290 Pager: 07720626208

I'm in almost daily contact with Rog!!

31, Glengariff Drive, Floreatt, Western Australia 6014 Phone: +61 893877031

Tony Hird

email me - to get Tony's details

More recently - January 2009....

Brian Lewis

13 Templars Close, Wheatley, Oxford OX33 1PA, UK  Mobile: 44 7802-233399 Work: 44 1865-873750 Fax: 44 1865-876599

WebSite: http://website.lineone.net/~brian.g.lewis/blchome.html

John Polatch

Are these current?? Work: 44 181 818 0221, Mobile: 44 836 217890

Moira Hayward

Mike Waller

25/12/2008 - Doug Barrie wrote:

Great to here from you, Mike. I have lost touch with most of the old crew from 1900 days, but recently was alarmed to hear an ex-ICL member of my golf club talking about proposing a certain Mr Polatch for membership.  I'll be meeting up with him in the New Year with some trepidation! Surely he must have mellowed with age, but somehow I doubt it. Have you heard from Brian Stoate or Cliff Luff. Alastair Donald's wife died a year ago but not sure what he is up to. Singapore is sounding good - the weather is freezing here.
 
Regards
 
Doug

doug_barrie@hotmail.com

wpears@plantrac.com also see http://www.pearsfamily.fsworld.co.uk/wallys.htm and  http://www.netshopcentre.co.uk and www.wanojope.co.uk.

Home: 44 01903 722074

17 Solway Close , Littlehampton, west Sussex, BN17 6QR

I visited "Spares" in Littlehampton around 2003

Staggered to hear from you.

Mailbox is only 5MB in size so I guess the Readers Digest version of MC's last 30 years would be best!

Look forward to hearing from you.

chiswell@intekom.co.za

17 Batterswood Drive, Scarborough, Ontario M1T 1S2   Canada

January 2009.........Bridlewood/Graeme wrote:

Hi Mike

 

Yes, I am still here although I had a scare in January 2008.  Ended up with a quintuple heart bypass.  I ma now okay and back into a fairly regular life.

 

How's Singapore?

 

Cheers

January 2009......

Graeme!!

Wow!! Take it easy - I guess you didn't wish for the right things back in New Year of 2008...??

Glad to hear things are getting back to normal (a bit), something like that must affect your whole life (everything you want to do) for a year or more...??

Things here  are fine.... Janet and I are just back from Hong Kong and Manila  - we go every year to visit her family in and around Manila... Big success of this trip was getting a plot of land that Janet had bought a few years ago - swapped for a much, much better plot - Janet will want to start building a house there during the next year or so.... meanwhile she's just taken delivery of a newly built 2 bedroomed apartment (37th floor) in Central Manila - which she will rent out... so.... we're progressing well...

Just had a quickie email from Fred Boulton - are you in touch with any of the 1900's people...?? - Jack, Chissie etc...??

That'll do for now - don't want to excite you too much,

All the best,

Mike C

bridlewood@sympatico.ca

Nov/2007 - This may be more correct... Sei@Myguides.com

He's currently Chairman of Marlborough Sterling - http://www.marlborough-stirling.com/channels/uk/homepage.htm - and this is a piccie from their web-site have emailed him - but no reply. well done Huw!!

john.greenfield@absa.co.uk

tommulligan@hotmail.com

Update!! Update!! 10/01/2007 - Ron and I met up in Singapore for a few drinks etc... Good to see you Ron after 35/37 years..

He's still working for ICL/Fujitsu/Dataskil, out of Hong Kong.

rongould@yahoo.com

January 2009

Mike,
Skiing in Niseko is not too bad, very good snow conditions, but not on a par with better european resorts in terms of ambiance etc. 

I have skiied in Zermatt, St Anton, Kitzbuel, Tignes, Val D'isere, Miribel, Davos, Les Arcs and Verbier all of which I rate more 

highly than Niseko! But overall given proximity and if you like Japanese food and hot spring baths after the slopes, 

Niseko is pretty good. Lots of foreigners speaking english and much of organisation is by the aussies so this also make things easy. 

It is a quite young resort as the excelent powder snow conditions attract quite a few young skii "bums" who cruise around the 

world looking for good snow and someone to pay their way around as a ski instructor or barman!

Apres ski was available but a bit limited - maybe in part because visitor numbers were down from usual. 

At the end of the day it is difficult to beat Europe so a trip to japan is a bit of a compromise.

Keep in touch
Ron

2005.....

Nice to hear from you.... This Friends Reunited website is proving interesting in contacting old mates (also some that you don't want to contact...  - and one or two old girl friends...).

Glad to hear you're in Singapore - I do business with Singapore companies on a day-by-day basis, and often visit.  I run a small company here involved in computer parts, and also exporting cars to Singapore (Eden Autos in Sin Ming Road are my customers).

Still married to the same girl as when I was at 1900 - now nearly 37 years.....  4 kids, and 9 grandchildren....

Still living in Essex, although had spells in USA, Germany and Belgium.

What's your news? Best wishes,            G.
george@acs-europe.com

And we have a picture...
chennessy@onet.co.uk

1999 - I remember Mike Curley - Elan BRM, a riotous journey in a Fiat 500 from London to Hitchin with Paul Basson after a drunken 'do' at a Medieval Banquet. Do you remember me? My photo & details can be found under NCC listed under the International division. I have probably been to HK & Singapore about 90 times over the past 17 years - it's a wonder that our paths never crossed! Unfortunately, I cannot afford to retire having lost a great deal of money on an ill-fated software venture in 1993/4. Anyway, it's great to see you looking so well (though a bit like a startled deer in some car headlights) Hope you do remember me! Cheers Dave Fishwick

d.fishwick@btopenworld.com - this may be old - try tiscali below - works as at 2009

d.fishwick@tiscali.co.uk

21/01/2009 - Hi Mike

Just a quick one, I have worked for the past 4 days in the Exchange Bureau, and now I have 2 days off. I am full of a bloody cold, have a chesty cough and am going away on Saturday for a week - I personally think that I need it!

The 350Z I bought in May/June last year and it is great, it sounds exactly what  a sports car should sound like yet is really civilised in terms of the standard features on it. I bought the roadster with the "sports" package (Bose sound system, black leather, electric seats etc etc..) The roof is not a metal type roof, and you can't get that sort of system on a 350. It converts from closed to open in about 18 seconds and it really is a neat party trick! I am going to the introduction of the new 370Z in April and will be curious to see how much better it is. Fuel consumption is not good because in the main I am spending most time on short trips with a lot of stop start within - I see from my computer in the car that I seem to be averaging 21.5 on local trips. You are supposed to be able to get 28/29 mpg on longer trips with a steady speed but I can't help just enjoying the whole experience which invariably means I am going faster that I should be! The cabin is again what I would expect from a decent sports car in that the driver & passenger are separated by the transmission tunnel, you have a good view of the front and where you are going, but with the top up you might have a bit of difficulty slotting it in to a parking spot so one thing to go for are parking sensors which are absolutely bloody invaluable. Mine is in metallic silver and as you'll gather - I love it! If you get the chance then my advice is - go for it!

As for Alaska, Mexico etc - I just feel that life is too short (part of the reason for buying the 350Z!) I enjoy going somewhere nice & hot and fairly luxurious so that I can just forget all that is going on in the rest of the world and get a great tan too! Sounds good to me.

Anyway, that's it for today, if you are interested I'll send you a photo of 8567 DF.

Cheers

Dave

Aubretay@btinternet.com

20/01/2009 - Mike
Pam (nee Buffin, ex-wife) contacted me and said you were still in the land of the living and that Ken Johnston is still around to be insulted. 

What a wonderful New Year gift. I have been many places since we last met and now reside in Houston, Texas.

I hear you are attempting to make contact with as many of us as you can find and are prepared to be found.

Regards

William (Bill)

From: "mike curley" 
To: williamscougal@clanhenderson.org
Subject: Re: Reporting In
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:27:43 +0800

Willie!!!!!!! Or should it be William/Bill??????

Fantastic!! Many thanks for getting in touch!! You have no idea how long I've been looking for you!! 

From at least 2001...... the search started out with me saying "William Skoogal Henderson the Third" must be easy to find.... 

and nothing came up... and only now do I realise...... wrong spelling... silly me!!

You're in Houston!!!.........Why???? Funnily enough I was supposed to be in Houston some time during end Feb and 1st May - 

but currently its all been changed and I'll be in Florida for those weeks - but if things change - or a meet is arrangeable - 

I'll keep you posted....

Good old Pam (less of the old!!) has passed on lots of news (she's been in a bad way - shame) - and she tells me - you're in a bad way too......

 nothing more than that - what's up??

As to finding 1900 people - it all started out as a bit of fun.... I had retired in Hong Kong 1st April, 2000 - having just completed a Y2K project 

(that earned me more money than any previous contract) - and I did so love the idea - that for years I/we'd been paid to create the Y2K 

problem - and here I was being paid even more - to fix the (non) problem!! Anyway - my 2 daughters (both living in England currently - 

Taunton & Cheltenham) often said I should write a book - instead, I started putting stuff up on the Interweb.. which attracted others - 

and all of a sudden I was a bit central - and others were coming via me - to old/lost friends of their own.

Most notable/prolific - was Johnston - and we did have so much fun (I had to censor so much of what we sent each other, to make it palatable) 

recollecting... I'll give you this link to me working at 1900P - and maybe you can follow it through the various links and pages...

http://mikecurley.simoncjwalker.net/mjc/Papsy-Worked/1900Prog.htm

A couple of things......

1. Anything you send me - may I put it up on my web-site?? Or would you like it sanitised before publishing??
2. I think you went to South Africa - and left before I got there - true??

I'm in contact with lots of ex-1900'ers - let me know if you want to contact someone who is not plastered on my web-site - I fail to update it sometimes...

I shall tell you some of my news/history...

Got sent to Jo'burg with Johnston around May 1970 - failed to keep the company afloat - started to lose contact with the likes of Fred Boulton, 

Graeme Wallace, KPJ, Dave Lewis, Jenny Morkel - got married to a German lady - Almuth - we returned to England - had the 2 daughters, 

lived around Bucks - same road as Paul Basson (worked a lot with him over the years) - got separated, she went to Hamburg, one daughter 

went with her - the other stayed with me in Denham - 1993 I get a phone call from Mike Waller - "want to do a 6 month contract in Hong Kong 

for DHL??" - I was there within 2 weeks - fabulous place - met Janet (a Filipina), moved in with her, we came to Singapore 2001, will retire to Manila in a couple of years.

Have recently heard from Graeme Wallace, Fred Boulton, Jenny Morkel - am in daily contact with Brian Stoate and Roger Fieldhouse (don't know 

if you knew them)...

Reply immediately/quickly and I'll pass on more gossip, details...

Stay well,

Mike C

6th February, 2009.......

williamscougal@clanhenderson.org

She found us....

michaeldhill@btinternet.com

2009.....

Hello Mike, and Fred (do remember you too!)
Well it's been a while! that was a different life.... 

I've had no contact with anyone from then, Dave I was once told drank himself to death, but maybe not if Fred had been in contact with him -
I found your web site by googling myself. Don't mind if you publish this. 

My life  -  I was married for 17 years and have two lovely daughters, both married and living abroad, as most of our kids are these days. 

One is a barrister, the other a project manager. I went back to writing software when I got divorced. 

Three years ago I quit my job and joined a sail boat going to Brazil as crew/cook, then crewed on yachts in the Caribbean - 

the focus of my life lately has been scuba diving!  I've been back and forward since then and am now trying to settle down in Cape Town. 

jennym@fastmail.fm

Fred Boulton wrote:

Dear Jenny

How really good to hear from you. Are you in Cape Town or have I
misread your message? I hope not. I occasionaly get down there.
My two sons! Live in CT. One (James -24+) been working for an Ad
agency and the other (Matthew - 22+) completing his honors
degree. So already two males I can introduce you to!

Anyway, as you said, a long time ago. Memories of these days a
bit hazy. The 1900 historian (Mike) will recall more about those
days. I can recall when you arrived in SA. When I introduced you
to Dave he was gobsmacked! For a change he could not speak!

Not too sure of events after that. Do remember that I was very
fond of Dave. Last time I saw Dave was about 10 years ago (+-).
Jack Curtis asked me to meet for a drink. Arrived at the pub and
there was Dave. Did not seem much interested in catching up with
the past but still able to put on the charm. But he kept
reminding me of when he let me take his British Racing Green
Spitfire whenever I had a new date (including Sue) who I stole
away from Willie Henderson. Was that the Spitfire or my good
looks?

Perhaps Mike and you can jolt my memory a bit (a lot!). Wasn't
Dave my best man when I married Jean, or was that a different
planet? Sad when memories fade. We did have a lot of fun in the
early days of 1900 SA.

Looking forward. Fred XXX

Mike/Fred
It is sad when memories fade - I don't even remember the Spitfire!! or the Chrysler for that matter.
And you are right about men being useless.
I am in Cape Town Fred, would love to see you when you are here. Are you
in Joburg? and maybe I'll get to Singapore some day.
Jenny
021 7133399

From: "mike curley" <djmikecurley@gmail.com>
To: "Fred Boulton" <qaresearch3@mweb.co.za>
Cc: "Jenny" <jennym@fastmail.fm>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:34:19 +0800
Subject: Re: Hazy memories

Jenny/Fred,
What an old match-maker you are Fred!! I still am unsure what
benefit Jenny will derive from having a man around....
And now - we have Fred - the young-matchmaker - introducing Dave
and Jenny all those years ago...
That's all before my time - never knew about Triumph Spitfire
etc...
But that's interesting Fred - you stole Sue from Willie - never
knew that... but I'd guess it was the Spitfire - she always did
like racy cars!!
Fred - I cannot remember being around when you married Jean....
think I'd bolted back to UK - early Feb 1973... or was I pissed??
Can remember being out with you and Sue (for example) at lunch
time - and arranging to go to the movies or dinner later in the
evening - and you'd turn up with Jean... we never knew who you'd
be with - you old tart!!
Got to go drinking.... more soon...
mc

Me - Mike Curley