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The Big Climb

The Steps, Lickey Hills c1960
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During the 1950s many children from Birmingham and surrounding areas suffered with TB and chest complaints.  I can remember the doctor prescribed that I should have sun ray treatment twice a week and climb the Lickey Steps once a week.  Climbing these steps was really hard going, coughing and feeling breathless and with legs like jelly, but as the months went by the climb became easier, my health returned.  As a teenager I would gladly climb the Lickeys and the Malvern hills.
I loved the view from the top of the Lickeys. I left the area when I got married over 40 years ago but often think of the Lickeys.

Written by Ruth Harris. To send Ruth Harris a private message, click here.

A memory of Lickey in West Midlands shared on Sunday, 25th January 2009.

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