Long Walks For Little Boys

A Memory of Melton Mowbray.

I remember we used to walk from my grandma's house in Nottingham Road opposite the Fire Station down through the park, cut through to Burton Street and about halfway up Burton Hill. I was never quite sure why we went there - probably some place my grandmother had stayed or someone she used to know. She said it was exactly a mile, but I only remember it was a very long way on my seven-year-old little legs.