The Village And The Church c1955, Pott Shrigley
The Village And The Church c1955, Pott Shrigley Ref: P395025
Memories of The Village And The Church c1955, Pott Shrigley
Nostalgia
Our family lived at Jackson Brow in Pott Shrigley. We were living in No. 2 when the war was declared in 1939 and we listened to this on an old Lissen radio which required two dry batteries and one wet accumulator to run. A year later we moved to No. 1 which was the house at the front. (It has been modernized from our days when it was a 2up/2down with no running water, no electricity and the 'petty', a good old northern word, was at the end of the garden.) My Dad at that time worked down the pit at Hammond's brick works. In 1940 I won a scholarship to go to Kings School, Macclesfield where this village lad mixed with the more fortunate.
Being wartime we had to work and my younger brother and I worked at Pott Hall Farm where we picked potatoes, thinned and fashed turnips, milked cows and went hay making. The farmer was a fiery tempered, red haired man of Irish descent by... Read more
All at Sea - my Boyhood Poem
The ship had struck an iceberg a hole yawned in its side. In came the water racing fast - a swirling rushing tide. Then up came Jack the captain, He cried "put fear to rout - I've blown a hole in the other side to let the water out".
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