By The Cut

A Memory of Tipton.

born in 1948 in a place called Cappenfield near Bilston, just off Dudley street, just four houses in a row surrounded by fields,, the canal, or cut, as we all called it ran alongside, and it narrowed down to what we called the stop,it was where the barges pulled up to wait to get into the basin so they could load up and start their journey back, i remember the railway branch line that ran past the bottom of the garden,,very sad when we had to leave, i was about five then, but the houses were so old, we had to go, I went to St Martins school, fond memories of that, then Stonefield school, (not so fond ) Walking down Dudley street to our aunties who lived in Sankey street and then up to field street in bradley to our other aunties,, and who remembers the Sankeys hooter, called the Bull, you could hear it for miles, The Police houses on the corner of bankfield, the park on the other corner and across the road, the place we called the flea pit, the Forum, St Martins church in bradley , is where my two sisters were married, nearly sixty two years ago, such a beautiful place, I remember the old blasting factory on Highfields road , and Perry,s then over the bridges down to Ladymoor school, sadley, along with Cappenfield, St Martins church and most other places all gone,,

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