hwareader.blogg.se - Enter The Dragon by Theo Paphitis

"You had to make your own entertainment, which was always going to go one of two ways," he said. Theo said there was certainly nothing like it in the area when he was a child.

Former Welsh international Robbie Savage has joined a non-league side who play at a Stockport leisure centre.

It's the end of the line for Virgin Trains from Manchester.

The £6 million centre has been made possible thanks to the donation of land by the local authority and a huge cash donation from Salford bookmaker Fred Done.Ī committee of local youngsters has been involved in its design and planning - from choosing the name and logo to even interviewing staff.Īnd it hopes to see 3,000 people, aged eight to 19 from across east Manchester, through its doors in the first year. Theo went to Peacock Street Primary School, pictured here in 1964 (Image: Manchester Local Image Collection) "It’s where I learnt to speak English, only speaking a couple of words when we arrived, but I made friends at school and I loved it."ĭespite leaving school at 16 with no qualifications due to his dyslexia, Theo began work as a filing clerk in a Lloyds of London brokerage.Īt another job - working in a Watches of Switzerland shop - the fledgling businessman discovered his passion for retail. "It definitely shaped me.", Theo went on.

'Deezy was a Gorton lad, how can no-one know what happened to him?' - The savage murder that's been unsolved for five years.'He’s got a gorgeous young child, a boy, who meant the world to him': Family pays tribute to young dad, 21, killed in Levenshulme motorbike crash."I was nine when we moved to London, eventually to the Finsbury Park area, and both Gorton and London were in my formative years, so I have many memories from both both full of character and a treat for the senses. I went to Peacock Street School juniors, apparently it’s now a council depot. "When we moved to Gorton it was like something straight out of Coronation Street and I have a special place in my heart for the area. "We rented a little two bedroom terraced house in Old Trafford, before my dad bought us a two up, two down in Gorton, when I was about seven. Theo spent eight years as a 'dragon' on the hit TV show (Image: bbc)