The Avenue Of Trees

A Memory of Denton.

I remember The Avenue from when I was young in Circular Road (born there in 1948,) the trees always looked huge when walking down to the farm, I now know was Hyde Hall. My older brother helped on the milk round from there - the horse knew where to stop! We used to go sledging in the fields to the left just before here. The country track I knew down to the river is now just a footpath between houses. My family left Denton for Bury in early 1956 and I still miss it although when I took my daughter there a few years ago it had changed so much. I remember acting in pantomimes at Hope Congregational as my parents had done back in the thirties and even the church building has gone.