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that looks like the spare land of margaret street,the big building in background is t`hen ole.

I think the garages to the left of Kathleen's right shoulder belonged to Mr Boylan, coal dealer. And the far wall was the back of the old workhouse grounds and had a small "river" running at it's base.When I was a littleun this was the reputed haunt of the dreaded "Digglers". Rumour has it that developers want to pull down "Th'en ole" and build appartments etc.

Ahhh, i'm with you now - it's the "little park" area i used to go to as a kid!

We used to call it the 'back field'. Rememb er bein g dragged across it by my Dad every Saturday afternoon, when he went to put his bets on at Corcoran's bookies.

my children and their friends always called it the tyre park.

we used to live at 121 woodhouse lane me my brothers
used to play there it was known as keck

That is defiantly the spare land now a children play area in Margaret Street the kek was behind 115 to 180odd woodhouse lane now a small housing developement

I thought id made up that open space. Were there horses on it now and again? . My Nan lived at 171 in the 70s.