Best Four Years Of My Life As A Kid

A Memory of Bishop Monkton.

We moved here in 1978/9 when I was 4 to 8 - St John’s Crescent, and was heartbroken when my parents split 5 years later and we had to move with my mother back to Knaresborough. Lots of lovely memories. The old schoolhouse where we grew Hyacinths in the outside sheds in winter, the ponies in the field next to the path that led to the modern school building. The huge climbing frame that wouldn’t be allowed now! My friends Rowena Richardson, Paula? and Kirin Keighley. My lovely infants teacher Miss Roper and later the scary Mrs Hardacre 😂

The lovely old man who lived down the Lane who was involved with the school. The beck for paddling in. Harvest festival at the church, summer fetes with face painting and pony rides and the fancy dress competition we never won even though my brother and I went as a cowboy and Indian and took our rocking horse! Mrs Cusworth who ran the village shop, the pop man, the mobile library. Happy days.

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