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Evacuation From Coventry
After the 'blitz' we , the young children were shipped of to Dosthill. My brother and I were to live with an elderly woman, a Mrs Pike. Mrs Pike had a married daughter named Dolly, a very kind woman. I remember the school, walking there daily, and all those chickens. The quarry, stay away from the quarry, which I did. Mrs Pike had trouble taking care of us due to her age, we were to be moved. You move me, it had better be home. My brother stayed and went to live in the 'buildings' is that right? I arrived home in Coventry in time for a couple more blitzes, off they sent me again. Never would you like to be evacuated, but you are going. I hated being an evacuee. I was eleven years old. Now I am 82 yrs old, and like an old watch, still ticking.
Swimming
I grew up in Fazeley along with my little brother Glenn. Some of my best memories would be of the good summers we used to have when we would spend most of the school holidays swimming and fishing in the brook at Brook End. We would dam up the shallow brook and spend many hours in the now 5ft deep water,(due to our dams). Then we would build swings across the brooks and have hours of fun. In the main summer months you would see whole families having picnics along the banks of the brook, it was like a beach atmosphere. Sadly I walk the local brook nowadays and it is all overgrown and no children play in the waters any more, even though they are probably cleaner now than in my day. I always remember my mum telling us off because we would come home with dyed swimming shorts as sometimes the brook would be blue or red depending on what colour the cotton mill upstream was dying the... Read more
Fazeley - in The 1970s
I remember the beach-like atmosphere at Bourne brook off Brook End, Fazeley in the summer months (early to mid 1970s). Whole families would sit and watch their children swim in the brook. I learned to swim and fish here. I also remember the dams to increase the water height. Favourite memories regarding Bourne brook include riding down the brook on truck tyre inner tubes from the canal viaduct at Millfield school to the turn at Brook End. Plus building rope swings across the two brooks to get to Farmer Heamus's fields. We used to walk for miles through the fields by the river. As I reached my teens the swimming activity moved to Dosthill quarry (50p per summer membership with one life guard). We had great fun diving and jumping from the cliffs and riding the pully across from top cliff. Great days spent outdoors.
Memories of Mile Oak And Fazeley
I remember those golden years as a youngster bathing in the mill at Fazeley and Bourne brook at Mile Oak. The weather always seem so warm. We had our own circle of friends, and as youngsters we did get into trouble, but there was always a friendly copper to put us on the right track. Life was idyllic and we were protected by our family and friends. I remember going over to Drayton Manor before the it became a pleasure park. It was occupied during war by Polish immigrants. My dad spent many hours fishing in and around Fazeley. Could tell a lot more.
Where I Grew up
Not many people have heard of Glascote, it's not even on the map. A lot of people get it confused with another area called Glascote Heath, but they are not the same at all. I have lived in Glascote all my life. At one time it was a lovely little village with shops dotted here and there, a grocers shop and convenience stores, and everyone knew each others families and asked about them. But now with changing times, there are fast food shops, hairdressers and a betting shop.
Glascote did used to have a pit, along with many other places in the Tamworth area, and my mum was telling me only yesterday, that when she used to sit in the living room of her house on the Main Road (also known as the B5000), with her ear to the floor and she could hear the miners working below. That was probably the major job for men in Glascote, and they also used to use pit ponies. My own... Read more
NAME SEARCH
I have no memories of Bangley as such but am very interested in the place (or rather the NAME) as I married into the Bangley family and because the name is so unusual, any references I find regarding the name Bangley gives me great interest
To date (after some 35 years research) I have still not been able to source the origins of the name "Bangley"
The Bangley family I married into all hail from the Cambridgeshire areas of Huntingdon and Ely
Should anyone read this message and know something of the name of Bangley I would be most grateful if you would care to drop me an E mail at:-
alan666@blueyonder.co.uk
My name is Alan Walker and I am currently living in Essex - - Thank You
GRANDMAS HOUSE
MY GRANDMA ANNIE MAYCOCK LIVED IN THE HOUSE AT THE BACK OF PEACOCKS IT WAS END OF TERRACE DOWN AN ENTRY AT THE BACK OF BUTLERS BUTCHERS WHEN I VISITED THE SMELLS WERE FANTASTIC AND ON SATURDAYS THE BELLS WOULD RING FROM THE CHURCH FOR WEDDINGS SHE USED TO GIVE ME 6PENCE TO GET SOME BLACK PUMPS FROM WOOLWORTHS ,THE BACK DOOR SQUEAKED WHEN YOU USED IT AND SHE USED TO GO DOWN THE CELLAR FOR COAL EVEN AT 70 YEARS OF AGE THE LOO WAS IN THE BACK YARD THERE WAS A PIANO IN THE FRONT ROOM BUT THEY WERE HAPPY DAYS GRANMA I STILL MISS YOU GOD BLESSXX
