[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by JoanR

Thanks for the information about Field House Farm, Retlaw. We used to see a woman outside the house sometimes. She could have been the mother of the boys you knew.
The college on Sandy Lane wasn't built when we first lived in the area. There was a field where it stands now, and we watched haymaking in late summer. I don't know who the field belonged to.

That field was rented out to Bulloughs, they used to bring the Shire horses from the stables on Scaitcliffe St, to that field every Friday evening till early Monday Morning, we used to wait for them at the bottom of Adelaide St and the drivers would pick us up and put us on their backs till we got to the field. The horses really looked forward to it, they charged round like mad once they were untethered.