I've just read the book 'Radford' by Chris Richards and feel sure I'm in the Forster Street school photo taken in 1957 ( on the page facing the contents page if anyone has the book ) my sister says it isn't me but I think I recognise other kids in the picture. I'd appreciate anyone reading this to check and see if they are in the picture.
I was born on Croydon Road in 1952 and lived there until getting married in 1973. Great memories of Radford in the hard days. Nine of us lived in a mid terraced house on Croydon Road, two beds and an attic, outside toilet and a yard where the tin bath and outside mangle lived.
So many happy memories growing up there; playing marbles on the cobbled street, playing games with all the other kids on the road including; British bulldog, hide and seek, knock a door run in summer and making ice skids down the street in winter, jumping the tankies down the river Leene and scrumping on the allotments there ( once getting caught by the allotment owner and getting a good telling off )
Money making ventures included bejng dressed up up as Guy Fawkes by my sisters and sitting in a push chair to ask for money when Players and Raleigh workers passed the hoouse, taking the rags down to the rag place on Peters Street, and earning a few pence by working for the wood man, putting sticks into a tin can and securing them with metal twine, ready to sell as kinder wood to start the open fires everyone had those days.
Well enough nostalgia for now. If anyone does recognise the self or others in the book I mentioned above, please reply and help to solve the mystery.
A trip down memory lane - Radford
in Old Radford
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I've just read the book 'Radford' by Chris Richards and feel sure I'm in the Forster Street school photo taken in 1957 ( on the page facing the contents page if anyone has the book ) my sister says it isn't me but I think I recognise other kids in the picture. I'd appreciate anyone reading this to check and see if they are in the picture.
I was born on Croydon Road in 1952 and lived there until getting married in 1973. Great memories of Radford in the hard days. Nine of us lived in a mid terraced house on Croydon Road, two beds and an attic, outside toilet and a yard where the tin bath and outside mangle lived.
So many happy memories growing up there; playing marbles on the cobbled street, playing games with all the other kids on the road including; British bulldog, hide and seek, knock a door run in summer and making ice skids down the street in winter, jumping the tankies down the river Leene and scrumping on the allotments there ( once getting caught by the allotment owner and getting a good telling off )
Money making ventures included bejng dressed up up as Guy Fawkes by my sisters and sitting in a push chair to ask for money when Players and Raleigh workers passed the hoouse, taking the rags down to the rag place on Peters Street, and earning a few pence by working for the wood man, putting sticks into a tin can and securing them with metal twine, ready to sell as kinder wood to start the open fires everyone had those days.
Well enough nostalgia for now. If anyone does recognise the self or others in the book I mentioned above, please reply and help to solve the mystery.