Old Shard End
A Memory of Shard End.
My family moved to Shard End in 1951 to 11 Freasley Road. The estate was in its first stages then, no shops and no bus service, it was a walk to Lea village for the bus across the old bailey bridge. There was a lot of open ground in those days, I was still at school and an old bus used to collect us and take us to Pype Hayes Sec Mod school. When I left school I worked on Castle Bromwich airfield until I was called up for Nat Service. I was posted to Manston in Kent and after demob I remained in Kent. I do go to Shard End still to see my sister, she lives in Gorsefield Road, the old Shard End has gone. I look at the park and remember it as an old sand pit that was surrounded by a steel fence; it brings back happy memories but that, as they say, is progress.
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I remember a lovely blond haired girl in our class who also lived in Freasley Road up towards Pithall Road, her name was Margaret Jukes and I really fancied her. Further down the Hill I knew Alan Cross. Two doors from me lived Micky Howkins my mate, and next to him Mickey Gillbert. Across the road from us lived the Smith family, Tony was in my class and his elder brother Paul who was in the Alderlea Boy's school drama group went on to play Benny in Crossroads. I'm wondering what happened to all the other kids I knew in the area that went to Hillstone, Alderlea Boys' and Long Meadow Girls' school. Tom McCauley