Thanks Willow. It was a lovely place (probably still is - I don't know) and I was very happy there. I often used to walk home from school through the fields between White Ash and West End, along part of the "coach road", but I saw that it is all built on now. My brothers tell me that my old school, Paddock House, has also become a housing estate.
We have the same thing here in the village where I now live. This is a rural area but a lot of green-belt land gets "acquired" by developers and every open bit of the village gets a couple of houses sooner or later. You can't stop progress but it's a shame when the countryside starts to disappear.
I'll just keep my memories of West End and the rest of Ossy the way it was, along with all the lovely people I knew and grew up with.
