Yes absolutely I think a lot of us used do similar things like that, do you remember when ever there roadworks in your road. They used to have a night watch man there all night to make sure the lanterns stayed lit, and for safely to the public he'd have a nice coke fire going and we used chat to him. Tell me did you used be a naughty boy like me and play knock down ginger, when you nicked a reel of you mums cotton and tied it to the knockers on people doors and zig zag back wards and forwards across the road. The idea was to knock on the first door they'd open up and it would snap the cotton and knock the door opposite, and if all worked properly it would go backwards and forwards across the road.
Eileen Penn
Hi Richard. I actually know you from Halstead. What a small world this is!! I am part of the working group dealing with the Riverside footbridge :)
Sep 13, 2022
Eileen Penn
My mum was born in North Grove and we lived in the same house until I was about 4 in 1964.
Sep 13, 2022
Reginald summers
Yes absolutely I think a lot of us used do similar things like that, do you remember when ever there roadworks in your road. They used to have a night watch man there all night to make sure the lanterns stayed lit, and for safely to the public he'd have a nice coke fire going and we used chat to him. Tell me did you used be a naughty boy like me and play knock down ginger, when you nicked a reel of you mums cotton and tied it to the knockers on people doors and zig zag back wards and forwards across the road. The idea was to knock on the first door they'd open up and it would snap the cotton and knock the door opposite, and if all worked properly it would go backwards and forwards across the road.
Oct 4