Open Spaces Bottom Of Mill Road

A Memory of Three Bridges.

I moved to Three Bridges when I was 4 years old, in 1958, with my parents and twin brother Andrew. We lived in Mill Road.
Heavens how it’s all changed. Gone are the open spaces at the bottom of the road, where we used to play cricket by the main road! Yes, it was safe to then. If we heard a car in the distance we stopped playing.
Played football on the ice of Crabbett Road too in the winter of 1963. Hardly any traffic. I can’t remenber cars parking on the roads then, there were so few of the,
Across the road was the River Mole tributary, which flowed along open land and a large field where we walked our dog. At the corner of the field was the scout hut, a wooden shack affair set amongst trees.
Alas, we moved away in 1970, our childhood friends taken from us. Places seldom stand still