Summer School Holidays
A Memory of Wellington.
Those balmy hot summer days on school holidays in the early to mid. 50's. Walking down the lane at the side of Haygate Cemetery, across the Holyhead Road, up Earcall Lane (picking ripe blackberries) to the Forest Glen, stop off for an ice cream. Then to tackle the Wrekin. As kids full of energy we ignored the official path and took a shortcut - straight up the side to the Halfway House then up to the top, challenged the 'needles eye' and made a wish at the cuckoo's cup. I presume those are still the local names. Then the slow weary trek back to my home In Foundry Road, we had eaten all the blackberries by then and ended up with a sick stomach.
Close by in Foundry Road lived Elaine and Clive Smallman, Heather and Judy Dabbs, Morton Hughes, and my dear Aunty Dot.
I am a Downes
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