St George's Road

A Memory of New Mills.

Carol Jakes used to take me to school! The cinder path to St George's school (now tarmac and very steep) collecting wild flowers in the fields, swinging on the tarzan and making dams! New Mills Grammar School with bottled green uniforms and the dreadful velvet green jockey hats we had to wear the first two years. Local delivery vans brought weekly groceries, rag and bone man swapped soap or goldfish, pop man with stone jugs and the scissor grinder - excitement when Barrett's delivered pop in glass bottles, and Lyon's ice cream van! Even though the sign said 'keep off the grass' we played cricket, football, rounders and tennis unless the ball went in a certain garden when we knew we wouldn't get it back! Very fond memories of a wonderful safe childhood ( Janis Edwards)