Childhood
Walmersley Road Recreation ground was later renamed Clarence Park. This is the bandstand where on summer Sunday afternoons there would be a band concert and deck chairs (strictly for the older generation of course). The house in the distance was the park keeper's residence, and woe betide any child who was caught walking on the flower beds. There was a large rock near the park entrance which carried a metal plaque. The plaque said that the rock had been carried down by glaciers from the ice age. Was that true? As children, we used the rock as a miniature slide. The park was our playground throughout the 1940s and 50s.
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I used to live straight across the road from the park house, and we used to use that rock as a little slide too! I'm only 21 so it wasn't that long ago but I remember me and all my brothers and sisters used to run straight to the rock to slide down it even though there were plenty of slides/swings etc a few yards away! My parents used to take us all the time! It's a bit rough now though, I wouldn't walk through it on my own - and the lido is covered with blue algae!! But it's cool to see all the old photos and it's a bit of a shame that Bury isn't the same today
Comment from Lucy Whitton on Friday, 18th April 2008.