elsie
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Post by elsie on May 9, 2007 5:34:47 GMT -5
Ken,
Thank you so much for responding so quickly with such information!!!I would love to see the photograph please, so I will send you my email address. I have since spoken with my mum and she believes that it was her great grandmothers uncle who had the connection with Lee Hall but as my great great grandmother was the last surviving relative at the time, thats perhaps why she was contacted?! Im even more intrigued now!!!
Wonderful!
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Post by ingrid on May 13, 2007 11:34:47 GMT -5
wow have just found this site its brilliant I moved in 1959 to cranleigh road cats whiskas on the corner fields under the railway bridge and gateacre comp just starting to be built, went to belle vale favourtie teacher miss Rose I spoke broken english and german I was the german girl I remember the farm and also the nursery opposite Bridge inn and buying flowers for my mother on mothers day.
My husband moved to Lee Park in 1957 in the masonettes we both went to belle vale and the comp but we both dont remember each other from these schools we met after we both left.
Been looking at the website called bellevaleprefabs.com again that brings memories had a friend who lived in the prefab I always remember them being tinny but tidy little places always gardens with flowers if my memory serves me well.
It all looks so different now especially lee park is it for the better? will go for now but keep these memories going I am always looking for information to pass to my children and evetually grandchildren
Ingrid
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dave
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Post by dave on Jun 2, 2007 3:27:59 GMT -5
hi i used to go to the comp in the middle sixties and the head was called mr hughes, and my mates where eddie downey, john mccubbin,paddy burke(paddy was from ringway road) his mum always said "his name is patrick lol), good memories of the comp i used to live at the bottom of the field that was right in front of the comp and one dinner time walking down the field we lit up a stump and had 3 drags each and when we got back to school we all got the stick cos Mr Owen had seen us through the window lol, we used to walk to the playing fields on barnam drive every week to play football or rugby by the time we finished playing we where knackerd and had to walk back to school. good memories
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jimbo
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Post by jimbo on Jun 6, 2007 12:21:09 GMT -5
Dear Ken, I still live on Lee Park and enjoyed all the things you`ved been saying about Gateacre & Lee Park I live on Churchfield road and remember the Building of the estate when I was a kid, Before i lived there i lived in the Belle Vale Prefabs on Breahurst road and went to Joseph Williams school and then to the comp. We had to get a bus to school as the new Building had not yet been built so we where shipede off to Lister Drive school for two years i remember Guys shop on belle vale road and scrumping for apples in the orched at the back of the shop and one time got court by Mrs guys son i think his name was Arthur. Did you go to the belle vale beat club it was in the old comunity centre down by Westbrook road on a saturday night? I remember going to the Co-op for my mum & gran and my mums sister worked there for a while & her brother allso used to deliver the groserys on a big black push bike before he joined the merchant navey. I watched the Lee Park hights Being blowned down and somewere have a video of it that i took from my bedroom window. Well thats it for now catch you again some time later. JIMBO
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jimbo
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Post by jimbo on Jun 6, 2007 12:43:49 GMT -5
Hi Jim Hughes, I remember you & Charlie and the group Chalie was in called the Cave Men with Barry Woods before they became ABBEY ROAD. Do you remember when we went to Norwich for the BEATLES convention and also at the ALLY PALLY in london i was the roadie and you had the filrst BEATLES musium in Liverpool on Mathew sreet . I see Barry now and then but not seen Charlie since Tracie got maried her husband is a cousin of mine do you remember me? All the best for now JIMBO.
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ken
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Post by ken on Jun 6, 2007 18:50:53 GMT -5
Hiya Jimbo, Great stuff! those days of adventure. It's starting to sound like one big happy family here! I went to Craighurst Annexe School in 1960 waiting for the new Comp to be built. I remember our class took a trip up Grange Lane to see the new school being built before we started our new term there in 1961. The headmaster Mr. Hughes was nicknamed "Yosser", but not to his face!
Interesting to hear about the vid of the Lee Park maisonettes being blown up. I've got an "Echo" cutting of it, and I went over there afterwards and saw the huge piles of rubble.
If you live in Churchfield Road you might know my cousins, George & Mary Carson. I haven't seen them for a few years but we still try to keep in touch,
Regards, Ken
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jimbo
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Post by jimbo on Jun 7, 2007 7:25:00 GMT -5
Greatings Ken, Do you remember Mr Addams, nicknamed "SETH", Mr Lewis the metalwork teacher, nicknamed " ABERDEEN ANGUS" there must be lots more i cant remember. What number is your cousins house? I live at the Jones farm road end, must go now lots more to tell T.T.F.N. JIMBO
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ken
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Post by ken on Jun 7, 2007 13:56:20 GMT -5
Hi Jimbo, They live at 45 Churchfield, is that the other end? I mentioned my dim memories of a mad Mr.Adams in the other topic where you asked about him - nuff said!!
Cheers, Ken
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Post by ingrid on Jun 7, 2007 15:44:32 GMT -5
Hi everyone I was there when the heights were blown up we were visiting my father in law who lived in lee park ave . I have photos of the masionettes being demolished it all looks so different now I have spoke on the other thread about Mr adams and others so wont gon on here . I had a friend who used to live in the heights on the top floor have just been in touch through friends reunited brings back such memories
speak again
regards Ingrid
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ken
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Post by ken on Jun 8, 2007 11:45:32 GMT -5
Hi Ingrid, Yep, sounds like the Mr. Adams I knew! Those pics of the Lee Park "blow up" sound great. If I give you my e-mail address would it be possible for you send them to me?
Thanks, Ken
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Post by ingrid on Jun 8, 2007 12:49:37 GMT -5
Hi Ken The photos I have are the demolition of the masionettes not the blow up of the heights if you want these you can certaintly have them no probs
regards Ingrid
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ken
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Post by ken on Jun 9, 2007 5:59:44 GMT -5
Hello again Ingrid, Sorry about the confusion. I always remember those ugly great 14-storey maisonettes just across the road from where we were living! But I'd certainly like to see the demolition of those others, as I haven't been there since, Thanks, Ken
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Post by ingrid on Jun 12, 2007 5:49:35 GMT -5
Hi Ken
Get mysanner back tommorow it broke so hopefully will send you the said photos Talking to my Husband this morning about all the groups that lived in lee park as Bill moved to Lee Park in 1957 moved when we got married 1971 he also has many memories I am going to write them down as he tells me and then post on this site will speak again soon
regards Ingrid
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tony
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Post by tony on Jun 16, 2007 9:09:39 GMT -5
Hi to all the members of this site, i have just read the three pages and it has brought back memories of Gateacre and Lee Park, i wasn't from there myself but i married a girl from Widmore Rd, She worked with her sister and brother in the Coop for a short time, her brother was the order boy. My wife went to Blessed Johns School in Garston. after we were married she worked in Prendergast Chemist in the villiage, until 1972 when we then left Liverpool for Australia. We return there every couple of years to visit her family who still live in Widmore and Churchfield Rd. We will certainly keep in touch with this site, bye for now Tony
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ken
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Post by ken on Jun 19, 2007 16:33:06 GMT -5
Hi Tony, Nice to hear from you. Wow, how amazing is that! you come all the way from Oz to visit the family in Lee Park every couple of years. I was over there the other week to take some pics of the Comp, and once again I was dismayed at the endless traffic pouring along all the main roads through the village. Not at all like I remember it. Thanks for the family background; if you have any more stories to tell, then please do,
Ken
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