Growing up
North Somercotes played a large part in my growing up, I lived with my parents, sister and brother on the Lakeside Lido in St Annes Avenue, next to my friend Cherry Mayfield. I particularly remember when we both had chickenpox and our mothers ran a line through our bedroom windows so we could play noughts and crosses back and forth.
I went to the local primary school, and The John Birkbeck Secondry Modern School as it was called back then. Mr Aegeter was the headmaster at the time. I also remember Miss Vickers the PE teacher.
I have fond memories of our weekend bike rides through the countryside of North and South Somercotes, there would be a group of us, myself, Cherry, Jill, and Andrew Humberstone to mention a few, we would leave in the mornings with a picnic lunch and ride around untill late afternoon when it would be time to return home.
Since leaving the village and emigrating to Australia with my family I have often wondered what happened to all the people I knew back then. I see from the maps of the area that the village has grown considerably in comparison to the size it used to be.
Thank you North Somercotes for some very fond childhood memories
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Linda - we must have been at Birkbeck at a similar time as Bott (Andrew) was in the same class as me, obviously Butler must be your married name. I now live in Somercotes and occasionally see Cherry who lives nearby and is married to Clem Connolly. I remember biking from my home in Marshchapel to see Betty Wragg who also lived on St Annes Avenue. I remember Miss Vickers very well too - as either she or Mrs Mallet had me standing in the front entrance hall most days. I think they would both be amazed that after eventually going to University as a mature student, I qualified as a Chartered Surveyor. The village has changed quite a bit since the 1960's and like everything else not necessarily for the better - bigger, fewer local people and of course we are all looking back through those rose tinted glasses now. If there is anyone you would would like to contact let me know, if I don't know where they are I'm sure my work colleague Steve Waller will, his mother is 90ish and the oldest WI member in the village, together with Kath Humberstone who used to be at the surgery - in the good old days when everyone queued in the same waiting room to see the Doctor (Parker or Powell). Hope you find Oz to your liking - it's mid 20's C. here today and that's too hot for me. Regards.
Comment from Maurice Berry on Sunday, 23rd May 2010.