Poets Corner

Hello Patricia, I share your memories of that area, I lived in Wycliffe Close and there were quite a few of us that used to go to the fields to play, the boys had their camp and the girls had their camp, we also used to go scrumping from the garden of the last house in Blenheim Drive, the garden used to run along Chaucer, there was an electricity sub station by the alley way and the fence panel was loose, we used to push it to one side and slip in and get the apples and we made sure we put the panel back so it didn't get repaired, we also used to do the bottle trick at the Glenmore and also the Green Man, I was only talking about it last week with family members and also one of the neighbour's lads who kindly attended my mothers funeral, she still lived in Wycliffe, most of the neighbours of that time have now gone, the reason I came on this site is because I was searching for an old map showing the Shoulder of Mutton, there used to be a circular concrete sort of building there and us kids used to play in there, I asked my older sister if she remembered it but she said she didn't, not sure what it had been used for, but I think it was possibly an old war time building, it was probably demolished by the time you were old enough to play over the green as I am a bit older than you, I was born in 1950, we used to have such good times and it is nice to find someone who remembers the good old days.

Hello Patricia, I was one of the 20+ kids that you mention. I lived in Milton Road with my parents and sister. In fact I think that we lived nearly opposite you. I remember playing football in the street and annoying the neighbours along with building camps in the Keats road fields. Life seemed so simple then! I eventually moved from Welling and now live in America but fondly remember my time at Poets Corner.