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Good to see the photos of the woodlands. When I was growing up the area was all grass right over to Bell lane and there were four football pitches and a cricket pitch, when we played on them we were in the Accy combination it cost us eleven shillings a game paid to the council. There was also a large pond down in the field with large trees all around.
Before the council owned it I think it belonged to the miners and there was a very large wooden building which was later used for players changing. I would have been about six when my Mother and Dad went there every Saturday night for dancing and drinking and a good social evening out. Three full size snooker tables and at the back of the building two bowling greens. That was when people new how to enjoy there selves, Happy Days still remembered.