Early Memories of Brook Street
I lived in Brook Street with my family between about 1958 and 1967. We lived at the bottom of the road nearest the High Street and opposite a large pond, which was a source of great entertainmanet to me and my sister at times! We watched local firemen practice fire drill, unrolling huge hoses and aiming the water into the pond then rolling up the hoses again when they'd finished. We sometimes climbed the wall surrounding the pond and dared one another to walk along it, and even walked along a ledge on the inner side of the wall, just above the water line - we must have driven our poor mother mad! The house we lived in is long gone now, and so is the pond. I'd very much like to know what the pond was built for and when.
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RE: RE: Early Memories of Brook Street
I lived in Brook Street from 1955 to 1962 and went to St Michael's Primary School. Can anyone remind me what we use to call the pond at the bottom of Brook Street? Was it just "The Pond", or something else? I remember when I was about 6 years old, my mother gave me a shilling and sent me off with a friend to buy some peas. We stopped to throw stones in the pond and I threw in the shilling as well!
Comment from David Walker on Monday, 19th October 2009.