Cargo Fleet

A Memory of Cargo Fleet.

When I look back, they were probably the best years of my life though I didn't think so at the time, my mam had parted from my dad, I was 12, had never heard of Cargo Fleet, had lost my dad and was taken to this place Id never heard of. I rebelled and hated every minute, but it wasn't the place, it was the circumstance. I ran away as my mam had another bloke but somehow Cargo Fleet always drew me back. I made great friends there, I met my first hubby while there and had my daughter. I got my first house there, 3.75 per week, no running hot water and a tin bath on the yard wall, yes it was 1978 and I had a tin bath on the yard wall. I live in Harrogate now, nothing grand, and have 4 beautiful grandchildren, and a gorgeous second hubby, but I would go back now, give me two hours to pack, no hot water, tin bath, heaven. I dont know what my neighbours are called, I have been here 10 years in this house, in Cargo Fleet my door was left open, it was and is the worst thing that could have happened when they pulled it down and for what - a road. I don't have many pics, mostly of my daughter in the street, but oh how I long for the Fleet xxx.
I was Alison Duce then, I lived on Cambridge Road but then had lived in Prospect Place, South View and Bedford Street, they had proper baths on Bedford Street, that was with mam, Cambridge Road was mine.