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Date Posted: 18:34:22 03/23/03 Sun
Author: Vinny Edwards
Author Host/IP: 213.122.121.23
Subject: Speke Memories

I read with great enjoyment the memories written by Ken Savage. Thanks Ken.
Oglet Shore also holds many fond memories for me ….it is unrecognisable today to the place I knew as a kid .

Does anybody remember the great big giant triangular concrete blocks that scattered the shoreline near the wall...? we used to believe that they were tank-traps left over from the war….does anyone know if this was true..? In fact does anyone know why the wall was there…was it an old wharf in days gone by..? I know Garston docks were not far away to the right as you used to walk down to the shoreline .

As kids we used to wander down Oglet lane and go egging along the pathway that used to run behind and under the runway lights up to the back of the Dove and Olive…we used to get Thrush , Blackbird , Linnets and Chaffinch eggs down there for our collections…we also used to wander up and down Bailey’s Lane …looking at the houses there and wondering what it’d be like to be so rich that you could afford to live there . I remember the farmers fields down the side of and behind the Dove and Olive…there was a big field and then there was a garden nursery on the far side of it . I remember getting caught egging in there once and the guys who worked there caught us and threatened to call the police…but then decided to let us go…it makes me laugh now when I remember how scared we were with the threat of the police being called …kids don’t seem fazed by that sort of threat these days do they .?

Remember the two little cottages where the road divided to go down towards the back of the airport runways ..? to the farm that lay down there…there was I think a dog kennels as we always used to hear lots of dogs barking down there…

The best fun we had down Oglet Shore though was riding our bikes down the hills from the top level down towards where the wall is…we used to get up to some speeds…it’s a sign of the times I guess but the last time I went there in 2001 there where kids of the same age riding motorbikes up and down those hills…when I told them we used to ride our “ Raleigh Choppers” down them same hills , they laughed and said we where mad…!!

I remember once my mum and Aunt taking us down to the Oglet beach one summer when we about six years old and us sitting on the ‘beach” it was a blazing hot day and I remember me mum rubbing suntan lotion into our backs….but she would’nt let us go in the water because it was so dirty.

Does anybody remember the marshland that used to run parallel to the runways..?…we would spend long summer days in the ponds with little fishing nets trying to catch newts and sticklebacks or egging for birds eggs . Even swimming in the deeper water holes when it was hot enough .

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[> Re: Speke Memories -- Angie Barton, 14:38:24 12/09/03 Tue (195.93.33.14)

Oh, the memories are flooding back agian! Oggy shore, blimey there was a huge tree down the shore to the left and there was a rope swing there and we would swing out even when the tide was in!

We took so many risks....I also remember those triangular concrete blocks as well my mam said it was to keep the germans out....I like you still don't know if that was true or not!

We used to get biscuits and pop and go down Oglet lane on our bikes and stop by the railings of the runway as the airoplanes flew over head to land on the runway, it was so loud we thaught it burst our eardrums, but we loved the whole experience...

Oh, and there where three, or four little cottages on the left hand side near the bottom of Oglet lane going down to the shore they were so pretty and nice....I wanted to live there when I got married!

Didn't though!

We used to go everywhere on our bikes we would go on the 'small' hills by the runway and go up and down them and in the little ditches we would get rotten dirty! And then get battered for it when we got home! Good times...

The best!!!

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[> [> Re: Speke Memories -- Stacey, 10:27:41 05/01/10 Sat (86.143.185.181)

Please could anyone try and help me locate a lad called Steven Sullivan, I lost touch with him about 10 years ago, He will be in his mid 20's, has a brother named Shaun and used to live in the flats oppisite a pub. I can't remember the name of the pub but i do remember I used to get the bus home from never the bus depot again this was 10 years ago and I don't know if everything is still in the same place. I think his mother's name was Jackie or something beginning with a 'J'. Please help.

Thanks Stacey

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[> Re: Speke Memories -- nichola mcdonagh (surprised), 14:57:41 04/16/10 Fri (94.168.59.66)

would you believe it but children in 2010 are doing exactly the same as you did all those years ago .

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