Rose View
1970 - 1984: As you look at this photo the last building on the right, the barn like cottage with the small window, is Rose View. My mum and dad bought it for £1,000 in 1970, and set to work modernising it as I was due 1971 and my brother 1975. When they purchased the cottage it was a 1 up and 1 down, no electric or inside running water and the toilet was up the far end of the garden. My Dad built the double extension that is still there today, and the car port (the circle pattern on the wall was made with one of the bases of my tea set!!). My dad died there in 1978, we lived there till 1984 when we moved to Sticker. My mates lived in Tyshute Lane and we all had a great time growing up playing up the pig sty that was up the end of the lane, and numerous other games in the lane. Many a time Pete Stafford had to allow us into his garden to get our BALL!!!!!!. My brother lives in Woodgrove Park looking over our old childhood house. It even has its own ghost!!!!!
Van Vean farm at the back was owned by the Hiskens. I can remember Pop sitting outside on the road to Five turnings, telling us about when he was a miner in the Polgooth mine at the top of the hill....great dilly races too.....
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RE: RE: Rose View
1959 - 1970: I also have many memories of Rose View having lived there from birth up to the age of eleven where I moved all the way to the other side of the village where I still live. Whilst I agree with the subsequent dweller concerning the outside toilet and water supply we definitely had electric as I'm not sure how the TV or fridge would have worked otherwise! Initially before the fridge we had a meat safe my father built and fixed to the outside wall. One morning there was a loud bang as the the milkman Sid Phillips walked into it in the dark not knowing it was now there. We weren't allowed planning permission at the time to park our car beside the house where we had the coal store where before our car came in 1965 my father kept his bicycle and it had to stay in Tyshute lane. Van Vean farm was owned by the Hitchens (Frank & Lorna). The farm beside Rose View by Cyril & Vera Fowler. The bracket my father made for the for sale sign in 1970 is still attached to the wall. I am glad to say I never came across any ghost.
Comment from Simon Sweet on Wednesday, 2nd March 2011.