Re The Buffs

Composite c1955
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The Royal order of Buffalos..... Next door but one to the nurses home (as was), now a nursing home. I was born in Highfield hospital, Mill Lane, lived in Wallasey until I was 62 and now live in the north of Scotland. When I was a child we would go to Central Park, opposite The Buffs, and when I had my first child I lived in a flat next door to The Buffs so I remember it well. I lived along Poulton Road, and can remember The Chandlers, The Florists, Brertons the butchers, The Co-op and even my mum's divi no 41226. Those were the days when kids could play safely in the park, and I would go out for bike rides in the summer hols with my mates to Raby Mere and be gone all day without my mum worrying, we would also go to Bidston Hill via biddy footpath as we called it, some days we would go to New Brighton Baths or the Derby Pool, they were good times and the weather always seemed to be sunny. My gran lived in Belle Vue Road in Seacombe, and I used to love going to look in the window of the dolls' hopital in Borough Road, then go for Gran's messages to The Maypole, pats of butter, sugar in blue bags, then Mrs Crow's corner shop which was also her house, for Uncle Joe's mint balls and bulls eyes, what great days they were...