The Best Of Childhoods

A Memory of Hunt's Cross.

I moved to Hunts Cross in 1948 when I was two. I lived in Laxton Road and went to Kingsthorne School from 1951 to 1957 when I, like virtually everyone else, passed the eleven plus. I went to Hillfoot Hey, now sadly demolished when it was only thirty years old!

Hunts Cross was a fantastic place to be a child in the 1950s. We were allowed to wander all day by our parents who never seemed to worry or care that we were trespassing on farmland, nicking apples, colecting birds' eggs, climbing trees etc. Camp Hill, Woolton Woods and even Oglet shore and Hale Lighthouse were regular haunts.

There was one bus an hour into Liverpool! Many lazy days were spent sunning ourselves on the roundabout which used to be at the cross-road of Woodend, Hillfoot and Speke Roads. No traffic lights then.

Hunts Cross was a beautiful place, now sadly it is a dump! When I drive through now it saddens me to see how noisy and dirty the place has become and I think of all the old neighbours who have now passed on who would be turning in their graves if they knew what 'progress' has done to what was such a peaceful community.

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