Manc Schoolkids On The Prowl!

A Memory of Delamere.

Remember being at a school in South Manchester called, Egerton, (where kids from Moss Side, Rusholme etc hailed from) and often, we'd be packed off, and taken to various parts of Cheshire to sniff with awe at freshly cut grass, look at the endless blue skies and walk through various parks - with Delamere Forest frequently being visited; and don't forget, the M56 was not yet built, and so it took a while for the blue City of Manchester minicoach to get there. Can still remember the packed lunches (cheese & egg - yuck), with apples and oranges. There would be a teacher telling us of the forests history, but we were more interested in horsing about and scaring the more younger children. I suspect it must have been heaven for hippies of nearby Liverpool, Manchester and Chester who wanted to spend a weekend away with Mother Nature in their funky Volkswagen vans - Irwin Rose, Mandeville, Jamaica.

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