Dorothy's Memories

A Memory of Sedgley.

l was born in the High st Sedgley a small house next to the old The Old Crown pub, in 1936, my father Samuel Britton was born in Sedgley (as was his mother and father and others going back to the start of the records of Sedgley once held in the All Saints Church)

we moved to a new council estate in 1939 just below the beacon tower,

l have been up that tower more times than most people,

in the war we would collect silver/black paper for Christmas decorations from the Beacon dropped from planes,

l now live just 5 minutes walk away from the beacon in a ex council house built in 1919/20,

the Beacon is nothing like it was 60 years ago,

my father Samuel Britton kept a allotment there on the Beacon in the first world war he was about 14yrs old,

a old man lived on the Beacon in a hut before the 1WW his surname was Whorton,

my father used to give him 3pence (three pence old money) to buy tobacco,

his daughter Ginny gave him some food,

my Aunt Omy (Naomi) was given a Council house in Beacon lane when they were first built she was 16yrs old and was just Married.

l have been as child with my friends run off the Beacon fields by the Farmer,

for pinching a swede,

we played in a valley behind the houses and below the Beacon which Dudley council filled with refuse.