Purston Featherstone
A Memory of Featherstone.
I can hardly believe this; I've just looked at this website for the first time, and see a comment from someone who lived at the police station from 1953. Would you believe, so did I! My father was based there and we lived in the police station house for a year or so; it must have been us who moved out to accommodate the family of your other correspondent! As I recall, we moved out a few days before the Coronation. I was only five then, and my recollections are a bit woolly, but I remember the gas holders over the back wall (gasometers, we called them). I seem to remember a covered coal shelter round the back of the house, and a sink and gas ring in a sort of cupboard in the kitchen. I'd started at nursery school when I was four, and I remember what seemed like a longish walk to get there; I think the route went past disused air-raid shelters that we used to try to get into. I can't see anything resembling the school now on street view.
My other main memories are of the Park, (with some disgusting public toilets) and a few swings on a large field, at the side of a road. Is that all built over now? Ah, memories, memories. Margaret
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