Sheriff Hill

A Memory of Sheriff Hill.

I lived in Southend Road from 1940 till 1947 then moved to Kent. My grandparents lived at 16 Charnwood Gardens. I lived with my mother and older brother Byron, my father was away at war and I never saw him until 1945. I went to Glynwood Infants School and remember that I kept running home at lunch times as I hated it. I used to play up what we called 'the cut', off the top of Southend Road and I played in the gardens with Johnny Glasgow. I remember the farmer used to bring his cows down Southend Road to the fields at the bottom, this was before Beacon Lough estaste was built. I also remember the coalman with the stump leg. I lived next door to George Parkinson, his father was a joiner. We played on what was called the first and second fields. I returned back to the north east in 1957 and now live in Durham.
Dereck Hobson.

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