Lecky drain (Barmy drain by Scully Power Station) Sandy Bottom - Barmy Drain where it crosses Ferry Lane in Woodmansey.
Pot Black in black and white. Also slightly O/T but I still LMAO when I hear Peter Kay say; He never forgave his dad for telling him the ice-cream van only played that music when it had run out of ice cream.
used to live on wenlock street opposite hick's-first thing every saturday round to geralds newsagents for me comics. going round to blacks for coal when miners were on strike and it was rationed. You could play out on the streets or on the bombed buildings at bottom of wenlock street all day and your mam wouldnt have to worry about some perv gettin you. shining up those lamposts that had the cross bars , trying to get a bike tyre over them. milk monitor at Thomas Stratton on londesbrough Street at a time when the government gave you free school milk so we all didnt get ricketts! ah halcyion days!!
There's been some great posts on this,thread. The big thing is mates you don't see anymore. I look back and some mates we lived and died for each other. The laughs we had were the best times of my life. The football matches turning up pissed on a Sunday morning and often on a Saturday afternoon. The holidays with ten lads, messing about having fun. The pub full on a Monday night for a darts match. Bali hai on a Thursday!!!50p a short and 50p to get in, if it was **** you'd go to Romeos. Playing snooker in grapes. Anyone remember hri club? Think it was called centre club. Used to go to loads of nurses parties and end up in the digs next door. Just the fun of winding each other up. I don't see any of the lads I I grew up with or went round town with in my twenties anymore.
There were indeed Carlisle! I also went to Thomas Stratton, played in derelict Co-op at the top of Wenlock Street and played in the wood yards on little Londesborough Street, slid down the feeder pipes on the oil storage tanks at the bottom of the same street, and went newting in Gloomy Wood (Hymers) Those certainly were the days!
