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Happy Time

A Memory of Tottington.

I came to live in Tottington full time in 1959 to attend Laurel Street school. We used to live in Beryl Avenues close to St Johns football and cricket field where we played endless games of football.
We used to go to Island Lodge where one year we built a raft to go to the island out of railway sleepers. Another time when there was a drought we walked to it. Walks up to Castle Farm and exploring the countryside all happy times. Going to the cinema on Saturday afternoons for a few old pence and one winter the snow drifting so high it covered the cars on the avenue. No house built opposite those days. It all ended when we moved South in 1961.

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I came to live in Tottington in 1959 aged 10 as my father was the sergeant at the police station on Kirklees street and we lived next door. I also went to secondary school on laurel street and passed the tennis courts and bowling green on my way. Happy memories of the railway driver who waved at us, making dens and the fair which visited on the playing field. I can hear the music now. I'm now 66 and didn't realise at the time how happy my childhood was.
By j.swindlehurst on Sun Nov 22nd 2015, at 9:32 am
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