[westendlass]

Sounds like we had a similar childhood, Bluebell wood, the lodge, dairy fields (the dairy was still going when I was little), taking a fishing net and bucket down to the canal to catch sticklebacks. Oh, and the roundabout really was vicious when the older kids started pushing it really fast. The slide seemed enormous in those days. I also remember Ted the butcher ( he retired a couple of years ago), Harry Hazely's paper shop that later became Clarey's, and the little Methodist church where our street had its Silver Jubilee party in 77 because it was raining on the day! Happy days indeed.