Nightingale Terrace
I lived in Nightingale Terrace, off Hanbury Road, until I was eleven. I remember Chatham's shop, with the wooden bung in the cracked window - it was like that for many years. My sisters and I used to spend our sixpence pocket money in there every week. There were two families of Morgans in the row and I remember a little girl named Geraldine Jones who we used to play with. There was a row of 'privvies' at the top end, which we weren't allowed to use. In the summer we would go up 'The Tump' and slide down it on cardboard boxes. Those were the days!
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RE: RE: Nightingale Terrace
Hi Diane, I lived in Oakdale Square just behind Nightingale Terrace with our parents and grandfather Edwin Hart. We moved when I was twelve to Sebastopol - but I, like you, remember Chatham's shop (sweets of course) and also playing up 'the tump' as it was called - we used to pick winberries a little further up (everyone made tarts then!). Recently, after many years away, I took a walk down Gipsy Lane (starts near Pentropied) - just to try and find the old 'Robin' pub our parents occasionally walked us to in the summer months for a ginger beer!! The Robin was run by a gentleman named Arthur Alan and he had a daughter I believe named Kathleen Alan, who was in my class at the junior school above Oakdale Square, approx 1957 on. The Robin is a sad ruin now with the passage of time! Anyway, fond childhood memories of people and places!!
Comment from Philip Taylor on Wednesday, 30th November 2011.