Sinton Green c.1960's

A Memory of Sinton Green.

I am nearly 61 years old, and my memories are from when I was aged about 5 6,7...My father was a 'Sparky' at the time, and we lived in Birmingham..He was working in Worcester at the then called South Staffordshire and Worcester Electricity Generating Company, or something like that, opposite the racecourse...

He was commuting on a motor cycle, and petrol rationing was on. The chap he was working with said he had 'digs' in Sinton Green at the Post Office, there's still a post box in the hedge, just to the left of the gate, where the Postmistress Gladys JENNIVER and her husband Jack, who kept some pigs, rented 1 or 2 rooms on a B&B sort of basis..It was very clean and good food..

Dad struck up a good rapport with them, and it came to pass that, as a family, we would holiday there, particularly my elder sister and me, during the summer holidays from school. I remember a couple taking me to Shelsley Walsh Hill climb for the very first time. I remember it was so cold one day, obviously winter time, I was skating on the small pool opposite The Hunters Lodge Pub, now void the last time I was there, and spinning round on the tubular fencing that's still there.!!

I remember a girl called Pat Bates who lived in the middle of the 3 bungalows just to the east..My Mom remembers even more..and she's 93..Oh, and I particularly remember pork dripping sandwiches Aunty Glad used to make...Paul CARTER

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