Boyhood Days

A Memory of East Howle.

My aunts and uncles lived in East Howle and I was a regular visitor around and before 1950. The two families lived opposite one another in what I think may have been "railway cottages" and my cousins totalled 9. In those days you got off the ABC bus at the railway crossing and walked along a path towards the Jubilee Bridge. The track then carried on towards the Tar-beds and West Cornforth.

My relatives lived in a square and there was no electricity down there, just coal fires, paraffin lamps, candles and battery-powered radio. The atmosphere at night was fantastic and the boyhood adventures amongst the woods, streams and railway around the "Rocks" area are still magical!