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Aspull

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Aspull
Aspull
Photo: DTease
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Item #: 31062
Ken R will know these next two areas I reckon.

Comment by: Wiggin Lad on 16th March 2019 at 06:33

DTease, there was once a lodge in front of this house you'll remember, where we would swim as kids during the long summer holidays known locally as the 'Fiver' it was filthy, its a wonder we didn't catch some awful life threatening disease. In winter months when it was cold enough we would skate on the ice, back then kids weren't born with brains but never the less, myself and others now in our seventies are still around.

Comment by: DTease on 16th March 2019 at 12:36

I remember the ‘Fiver’ very well Wiggin Lad. It was our combined fishing, swimming and camping venue. I remember camping over there with my brothers at the age of eleven or twelve. Can you imagine any parent allowing that now?
I treasure my childhood around Aspull in the fifties. Sadly, I doubt if any future generation of kids will ever experience the kind of freedom to roam that we had back then. I feel for their loss.

Comment by: Alan Stott on 18th March 2019 at 09:08

HI.Just looking through 1881 census and I see my grandfather is listed as living at18, higher gullet. I would be grateful if anyone could tell me where in Aspull this would have been.thank you.

Comment by: Ken R on 21st March 2019 at 20:09

Thanks DTease, you are absolutely correct in thinking I would have an interest in these photos. They have conjured up memories that would fill a book, I was born in the left house, it was my Grandfathers, we lived with them. He bred chickens, thousands of them. He rented (from WC&ICo a large piece of land going down towards the second photo here, he had numerous hen cotes and collected thousands of eggs which were sold off to dealers and the gen public. I was taught some of the routine of looking after hens. But we also had a motley of slag heaps to play on and invent things like (as I called them) sledges ,one for each foot that I could use for sliding down the heaps, I thought I had invented skiing. Blackberry picking near that small pit shaft pond and all the newts etc. Summer days were full of a new adventure. We found a large area of what looked like black clay in one of the ruined buildings and we would grab a hand full squeeze it together and throw it at each other, we looked like black snowmen, my dad saw the state of our clothes and asked were it was, I showed him and he went crazy he said this stuff was called Dant the first coal briquettes, coal was at a premium at that time so we made merry and made hundreds of briquettes to help in keeping the house warm. There are so many memories.

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