Mere Memories
My memory is not so much of the Wheatsheaf although I did visit a few times during my youth, a nice place to take a new girlfriend for a drive.
But nearby is the mere, a huge lake in the middle of an agricultural area.When I was a kid there were rowing boats that could be hired for a trip up the river. I can remember there was a small penny arcade near an old garage with flip ball machines and even a "what the butler saw" for a penny. The area was always clean and the air smelled of freshly cut hay except maybe when one of the local farmers was "muck spreading", the process of enriching the soil by spreading pig or cow manure across the paddock by tractor and machine.
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RE: RE: Mere Memories
You have got a bit mixed up the Wheatchief (the thatch) is not at Raby Mere it is in Raby, Raby Mere is about 2 miles away, I also remember the boating lake and the swing boats and the penny arcade, but that was Raby Mere.
Raby comes under Neston Borough Council,and I know it very well as my Uncle Stan and Auntie Lucy Bowcock, lived on Upper Raby Road.
Rosemary Abraham
Comment from Rosemary Abraham on Saturday, 13th November 2010.
RE: RE: Mere Memories
Thankyou Rosemary, but if you had read my comment properly you would have seen that I did not say the 'Thatch' was in Raby Mere !!!
Comment from Pete B on Saturday, 13th November 2010.
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I remember Raby Mere, the arcade and the swinging boats, my dad used to row us up the lake and put us on the little island there, saying he would leave us there if we were naughty. The lake still remains, the memories do too.
Comment from Eileen Neil on Wednesday, 26th January 2011.