[mobertol]

Sounds like you lived near where i did Flashy -that was our haunt as kids for playing out!

Sunday mornings were "our time" with dad while mum got Sunday lunch ready. Usually we'd pop round to his mum and dad's on Haywood Rd and if we were lucky there'd be something left over from Saturday in the bakery. Then we'd go round to the side of the Coppice -can't remember the road name and then set off up the Lane through Spire's Farm which was still a working farm and on up to the cottages beyond. Sometimes we'd stop here and play with some other children who lived there -their father was a colleague of Dad's. I remember being told how Spire's Farm and the cottages had bells which had been used as an alarm to warn the town's people of attacks (from the Scottish? possibly) hundreds of years before.
Then we'd go right over the top of Hambledon Hill - I remember it always being windy but never remember getting wet. We'd sometimes come right back over the Coppice and down to Avenue Parade, there were some sort of trenches up there which we used to be in and out of. Me and my sister probably walked twice as far as dad with all the toing and froing. Unfortunately there are no photos of these walks but we did them throughout the year in all seasons.