Things I remember about the Prefabs.
1.There was a pond on the other side of Belle Vale Road called Jackson’s pond where we used to go fishing and actually catch fish, mostly roach and carp.
2. Georgie Moon , I think he lived at the bottom of Hedgefield Road was the first boy to get a proper bow and arrow (a Black Mamba) and an air rifle.
3.The families who lived there were all young and strangers to the area.
4. All the gardens were neat and tidy and many people, for the first time in their lives, grew vegetables and flowers.
5.People used to clean and paint their front steps.
6.For weeks before Bonfire night we used to collect all the wood we could and also nick wood from other people’s bonfires.
7. The local park keeper was called “Billy Tin Whistle” whom we used to tease and he if he saw you doing something wrong he used to blow a whistle at you.
8.There was a sort of small holding/farm owned by Ma Guy. We used to go in and ask for a 1d ice lolly and when out the back we would nick ciggies.
9.I remember seeing a guy just outside Belle Vale school crying his eyes out having just learnt that his young wife had just died. His name was Sammy Richards and he used to cut my hair.
10. I remember that at friends birthday parties we would always play “Postman’s knock” and I must have kissed 50 different girls from the age of about 10 till 11.
