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Foxhill bank nature reserve should be made into a giant kids play area. When i was a kid there was always rope swings to play on trees to climb etc etc

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I think you'll find that those kids with matches play there already.

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That was my stamping ground 50 years ago, it wasn't a kids play area then, neither does it need to be now

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It might not have a kids play area, but plenty of us kids played there.

I had a mate who lived on Spring Terrace.

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where was the location of the "Swanee" exactly?:confused: seem to think it was just higher up ossy than Foxhill Bank, but memorys not the best, used to go catching newts at dinner time in the first 2 years at the tech. after that graduated to the "Prince Of Wales.":D

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The Swanee was the other side of White Ash playing fields down the hill as it was in those days, between White Ash and Thwaites Road, there was a lodge which was deemed to be very dangerous at the time, think it was the site of an old mill or something

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I had a few mates lived on there, Jack Johnson, Alan Turner, Fred Shaw, Patricia Stains, who actually sill lives in the same house today

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Alan Turner was the mate i mentioned.

Also PAULINE & BILLY JOHNSON
RONNIE SHAW

Mr STAINS was our insurance man.

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I remember Pat Staines - her dad was a agent/collecter for the Prudential

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Billy was Down Syndrome, he lived to Nealy 50, he was a real character, was always with Mal Warden Jackie and Pauline's Uncle, Pauline lives in a house at the far end of Badge Brow, she married Vinnie Whitehead. Some one else I've remembered who live there as well Elaine Carter, lived in the far end house from Alan

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I always remember Billy going to the Harry Smiths corner shop in Cross Street ,very well dressed and very well spoken.
Every one knew him and looked out for him

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Ya he always had a little shopping bag with him and a big smile whenever he saw somebody he knew

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It should be a flipping Kid Free Zone .... unless with a parent or other adult: There are enought play areas for kids in Ossy:

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Peter e mail our John i think he knows where Alan Turner is hes not on Accy web so you
cant get in touch with him on here .
Put it on the forum if you want to find him.
The snow had landed to us now very cold.

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There was an adventure playground somewhere around there wasn't there?? I seem to recall a giant slice with shet metal riveted to a set of sleepers going down a hill...

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When was that E and C

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Yes there was an adventure playground there about 72/73.

Some gypsies moved on and spoiled it, using the hut that used to be a shop/cafe as a toilet.

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Was the shop/cafe at the top of the hill where the house used to be Rindi?

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It looked like a Nissan hut, with a tin roof, and fairly near to where one of the houses stood,

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Rindy's right it was sometime in the 70's though I would have visited probably a bit later than 73. I remember it being covered in mud and the sheet metal being a bitdangerously loose(a bit like a giant cheese grater for buttocks)

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I'm almost certain it was before '75.
In the spring of 1975 we did a nature project there, lasting a couple of months, we being Mr. Ryan's class at Moor End, and the adventure playground had gone by then, and so had the gypsies.

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yeh but they didn't go far.:rolleyes:

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Thankfully these lot did. They weren't any of the gypsy families who've been in Ossy for years.

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Who were the last people to live in the big house in the [Plantation]

before it became a nature reserve?

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I can't remember the name, but I can remember someone living there, because they used to chase us when we were flogging Apples from their orchard:D, When they moved out it was vandalised, but can remember having a look round the place, there was a majestic stair case leading from the massive hall way running up both sides to the first floor, it was a real shame it went the way it did

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They also need to sort out the litter problem there.

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Who are they:confused:

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Went for a walk up Foxhill Bank last week on my way to say 'ow do to Jaysay. Spent a bit of time round there in my teenage years, as I had mates who lived nearby, but it's the first time I've been back there for nigh on 45 years. Got to say what a beautiful, tranquil place it is - a real oasis of calm in a busy urban area. Reckon I may make a return visit soon. :)

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Well do feel welcome to pop in for a brew.

If I'm not sat in bed, watching the heron.

:D

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Didn't know you had a tamed pet heron who fished for your tea Rindi :D

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Right, cheers, mate. Will bear that in mind! :)

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I had to read that twice Wyn though you said Beer at first:D

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Yes, I thought I might have been struck down by malapropitis after coming round to see you last week, but fortunately I don't seem to be displaying any symptoms at the moment. ;)

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Keep checking mate, sometimes it takes week for the symptoms to show:thankya: