Growing Up In And Around Kirkthorpe

A Memory of Kirkthorpe.

I was born 1965 at Walton Hall and for the first few years of my life lived at Warmfield Lane opposite George Shaw's farm. We then moved to Woodland Ave in Kirkthorpe, a small house with a huge garden that backed on to the woods. For a small boy it was the most fantastic place to grow up, the summers seemed to last forever, the winters were just as good sliding down Marshall Hill on a sledge and blackberry picking down Willow Lane. I started school at Warmfield Camp, Mrs Clarke was my first teacher at the infants and Mr Harker in the junior school even though the school consisted of two rooms. I remember trips down Pineapple Hill into Red Lane and back.. great times. Walking home along Croft Edge past the pig sty, I can still smell it! Sunday school with Aunty Connie down Half Moon Lane, I even did the maypole on Beech House. I sang in the choir in the church for a time and I was taught to fish and to shoot. At harvest time everybody helped out; I came from a poor family but had a rich childhood that I would never have changed.

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