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I’ve always been a Lager drinker over the years, but have recently become accustomed to Guinness. A lovely drink if you get it from the right places
With pubs/beer as the topic, it got me thinking. I feel quite lucky to have lived in the years that I have. Great memories and times with fellow Downall Greeners over them years. We all mostly knew everyone on the estate. Knew where they all lived. Mixed with nearly all of them. Fantastic times, club trips, Christmas treats from the club as a kid, walking day/ jelly Sunday, pram race, boozing and chatting, in The Bell, Village Club and S and S, on a mini Downall Green pub crawl.
Now, imagine how it’s going to be in the future, and it’s started already. Both Clubs gone! Walking Day gone! No trips or Christmas treats for the kids. All the shops closed and gone, that we used to shop and chat in! One drinking hole left that is balancing on a cliff edge!…Talk of Church closing!
Where will people get to know each other? It’ll be that you’ll only know your immediate neighbours! All living life indoors! All strangers in the same village!
All the great things we had all wiped away! So so sad!
They’ll only get to know anyone who lives in their mobile phone, where everyone spends their lives every day!
So happy I lived through the great Downall Green times!