My Younger Days up Redwood Lane.
i can remember menia cottage from a very early age.its not there anymore knocked down to make way for modern and bigger houses.to me that little tinned roof bungalow was heaven i lived there with mum and dad and my 5 brothers and 3 sisters until i was 23.now we have lost another brother (andy) i wish we could go back to how it was then,you could trust anybody leave doors and windows unlocked day and night not worry about where our next meal was coming from.we never had a lot of money because you did not need it then, but we never went without we were always happy.
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Do you remember Homestead Road? My aunt and uncle, Mr and Mrs Butt lived in a corrugated bungalow there and we spent all our summer holidays there. I loved the bungalow, it was so cosy and had a lovely smell to it - I think it must have been the wooden walls! There was no running water - that came from a pump from a well in the garden and the toilet was a wooden seat with a bucket underneath and the contnents were emptied on to a large heap in the field at the top of the garden and thence on to the garden as manure! We never suffered any ill-effects from it. Next door lived two elderly ladies, the Miss Beasleys. They always waore long black clothes and black hats and I thought they were witches. I was terrified of them and always ran past the bungalow as fast as I could. My aunt used to visit them and they always locked the door when she went in! I have so many happy happy memories of my holidays there.
Comment from Maggie Alexander on Saturday, 7th May 2011.