Chance meetings
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My wife and I travelled some 50 miles to visit a garden in Yorkshire. Afterwards we went to a pub in Appleetreewick for a drink. Next to us were a family with whom we started talking. Upon discovering that I was from Bristol, the man asked if I knew Harveys of Bristol. I said yes and I worked for them in their warehouse at Whitchurch for 3 months after I left school before going to University. The man enquired when that was and I told him it was 1965. Apparently he was a wine buyer For Harveys at Whitchurch in 1965, but our paths never crossed as I worked in the bottling plant. Later in the day we went for a meal at a pub near Clitheroe. As we were having a pre-prandial drink, a cyclist came for a drink. We got talking and discovered he'd been at Clifton College in Bristol between 1958 and 1965 while I was at Bristol Grammar 1 Mile down the road at exactly the same time
Date submitted:Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:41:19 +0000Coincidence ID:6963
