Michael Ian Harper

Posted on October 2, 2010 by admin

Michael Harper, Shrewsbury

You are in the right place if you are trying to contact the above person, born in 1963 in Lancashire, now living in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, brought up in Chester, educated at the King’s School Chester and UWCC Cardiff University, previously living in Hereford, Chester, Mold, Wem, having worked at the TSB, NWS, Oaklands Hotel, Appropriate, HS Administrative Services, Bingo Smart’s and connected to these people:

  • Colin
  • Kath, Norman, Graham & Christine
  • Linda (Lord) Jackson and family
  • L Tobias and family
  • The Nicholls family, Whittington
  • Det Johnsrud familien, Sokna, Norge

To get in touch, please use the contact page and I will reply as soon as I can, typically within 24 hours.

This web site is my permanent point of contact and any messages sent via the contact page will ALWAYS be forwarded to me directly at my current, in-use email address.

So, please get in touch!

Michael Harper

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TSB Chester

Posted on October 9, 2010 by admin

The TSB Grosvenor Road Chester branch is where Michael Harper first worked after leaving school.

The TSB, or Trustee Savings Bank as it used to be known, was undergoing rapid change at the time from a traditional savings bank to the modern PLC that is pretty much the same and now equally as bad as all the other modern banks.  Looking back, what an opportunity was missed.  The savings banks were unique and could have retained their “bank of the people” status while still modernising.  It was all thrown away in the race for cash that has recently led to the kind of financial risk-taking and ruin that the banks have for decades been patronisingly warning the little man about.  Not that I am bitter or anything.

Anyway, here is a photo of theTSB in Grosvenor Road, Chester, taken by me one foggy night in about 1978, actually two years before I joined the bank and when I was into photography in a big way:

TSB Grosvenor Road Chester, by Michael Harper

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Miss Bingo Smarts Hereford

Posted on October 6, 2010 by admin

Well, here is a picture of one of the places where Michael Harper once worked.  It is Bingo Smart’s Eating House, in Hereford.  It had a short life, from 1992 to 1993, but while it lasted it was pretty much unique.

Bingo Smarts in Hereford

The menu at Miss Bingo Smarts included such rarities as these:

  • Red Hot Rooster
  • Nuts about Pork
  • Kernel Smart
  • Prawns and Mushrooms Mozambique
  • What a Pitta
  • Bacon and Eggstacy
  • Chocolate Fudge Loveliness
  • Blonde Bombeshell
  • Apricot Lil

Well, you had to be there I guess!

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