Leslie Eric RIPPINGTON

5th Feb 1929 -

Motor Mechanic

Life History

5th Feb 1929	Born in Reach, Cambridgeshire
between 1945 and 1962	Occupation Crisswells
between 1947 and 1949	Military in Royal Signals - Driver Instructor - Service No.19162273
between 1955 and 1957	Resident in 41 High Street, Woodditton, Newmarket, Suffolk
5th Mar 1955	Married Rita Violet SMITH in Woodditton, Cambridgeshire Name: Leslie E Rippington to Rita V Smith Spouse Surname: Smith Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1955 Registration district: Cambridge Registration county (inferred): Cambridgeshire Volume Number: 4a Page Number: 665 Find Spouse: Find Spouse
between 1957 and 1960	Resident in The Chestnuts, Woodditton, Newmarket, Suffolk
4th Jun 1957	Birth of son David Eric RIPPINGTON in White Lodge Hospital, Newmarket
between 1960 and 1965	Resident in Rose Cottage, Woodditton, Newmarket, Suffolk
between 1962 and 1963	Occupation Dullingham Motors
between 1963 and 1974	Occupation Turner & Hores (Heath Garage), Newmarket
between 1965 and 1969	Resident in 37 All Saints Road, Newmarket, Suffolk
between 1969 and 1978	Resident in 78 New Cheveley Road, Newmarket, Suffolk
between 1974 and 1976	Occupation Wallis & Sons (was Chriswells), Newmarket
between 1976 and 1978	Occupation All Saints Service Station, Newmarket
between 1978 and 1979	Occupation Depot Road, Newmarket
between 1978 and 1983	Resident in 5 Strollers Way, Stetchworth, Newmarket, Suffolk
between 1979 and 1983	Occupation Drummonds, Newmarket
between 1983 and 1984	Occupation Ely Service Station
between 1983 and 1988	Resident in 21 Hasse Road, Soham
between 1984 and 1985	Occupation Greys of Ely
between 1985 and 1986	Occupation Lucas Auto Centre, Cambridge
between 1986 and 1988	Occupation Carter Street Garage, Fordham (laterly Soham bypass)
between 1988 and 1993	Resident in 423 Auriole Walk, Studlands Park, Newmarket
between 1993 and 1998	Resident in 140 Tulyar Walk, Studlands Park, Newmarket
between 1998 and 3003	Resident in 19 Norfolk Avenue, Newmarket
between 2003 and 2006	Resident in 33 Moulton Avenue, Kentford
2006 onwards	Resident in 18 Vincent Close, Studlands Park, Newmarket

Other facts

Occupation Motor Mechanic

Notes

His Mum paid £100 in 1943 (now worth £1250 in 2010) for him to become an apprentice motor mechanic at Crisswells Garage, even though (in his own words) she didn't think he was good at anything.
He started work when he was 16, sometime around the end of 1945, just after the end of the war and before his 17th birthday in February.
He remembers it being very cold and they had coal braziers alight in the workshop to keep them warm.
Fairstead House, Fordham Road, Newmarket - once home to the Crisswell family, owners of Crisswells Garage ... became Fairstead House School in 1950 (and now about to be sold for private investment in 2012).
Name: L E Rippington
Address: 78 New Cheveley Road, Newmarket
Phone Book Publication Year: 1974 - 1977
Name: L E Rippington
Address: 5 Strollers Way, Stetchworth
Phone Book Publication Year: 1979
Name: Leslie E Rippington
Mother's Maiden Surname: Allan
Date of Registration: Jan Feb Mar 1929
Registration district: Newmarket
Registration county: Cambridgeshire/Bedfordshire, Huntingtonshire, Northhamptonshire
Volume Number: 3b
Page Number: 650