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Kays Houses/ Westwood Cottages/ Little Westwood
Kays Houses/ Westwood Cottages/ Little Westwood
Photo: Rev David Long
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Item #: 7813
The shorter, 'Top Row' of houses, which faced the 'cornfield', which will be covered by the Westwood Park 'Chinagate' development... maybe, given the financial climate. Another from Cliff Halliwell.

Comment by: Catherine on 30th October 2008 at 13:44

Thanks for putting that one on Cliff. My Grandad lived in Kays Houses when he was little.

Comment by: fred foster on 3rd November 2008 at 16:39

Does anyone have a pic of Ormandy's Houses. My father-in-law was born there.

Comment by: Margaret Burns on 24th January 2009 at 23:02

Hi Catherine, hope you dont mind me asking but who is your Granddad? Im doing a social history project on Kay's and would love to talk to any family who lived there and or relatives did. My mother, Lucy Kearsley's was born at Kay's. Please email me if you have any time to spare to chat mmburns.tutor@yahoo.co.uk

Comment by: michelle joned on 23rd April 2010 at 10:27

i lived here wen i was born i lived at no 40 wiv my father n grandma then moved to 45 wiv mum n dad then got 1 in big row bith a bathroom n my aunty got the end 1 in big row number 37.oh happy days.

Comment by: Emma on 28th April 2010 at 19:40

My Anutie Kath is in this picture, she the one with the blond hair. my anutie and my nan and grandad and my dad lived on this row, they said they still want to live there. It's Ashame that they were falling down x

Comment by: Philip Moseley on 13th January 2013 at 13:44

I had relations that lived down there named green but was I think my Grandmothers side her name was Agnes Moseley nie Green also My Dad had a friend that lived there Johnson, Paul Johnson was his son

Comment by: cliff draper on 21st February 2013 at 17:56

hi to all this picture brings back many flash backs, we live on the front row 3rd house in on the old brick in the mid 80s, family was draper, great old days

Comment by: joyce walsh on 19th May 2013 at 21:33

yes cliff,,we run wild in that field,,remember your mum making jam on the baby belling cooker in the kitchen and the truck your dad made, the one we used to sit in that was in the yard and mrs mcavoy in the big house,problem was no bathroom in the houses and having to go to the outside toilet in the dark,,

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