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Date Posted: 13:28:30 03/20/06 Mon
Author: Ken Savage
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Re: Speke in the early days
In reply to: Gillian 's message, "Speke in the early days" on 12:17:45 02/24/06 Fri

Hi Gillian
Great to read your email. My family lived in Linner Road from 1939 so remember
St Christopher's from when it was a tent, through the wooden hut to the large Church
and then the new small one. It is true, every one bought a brick & no we didn't get it back,
but we did get one of the pews. We didn't even get a brick from our family house in Linner
Road when they knocked it down. The parishioners paid a lot of money to help build the
Church and were not even consulted about knocking it down. Thou I suppose it was cold
and draftee. I remember going to the first Midnight Mass when it was built, It was freezing
cold with braziers to keep us warm.

The Time Capsule was not disturbed, it is still there and the Statue is in the grounds of
the new church but the weather as got at it and the face as fallen off.

Dose anyone remember the bomb that fell outside the front of the old wooden Church
and didn't break anything not even the Statue.

Ken Savage

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[> Re: Speke in the early days -- Brian Reynolds, 07:41:48 03/21/06 Tue (84.64.255.1)

Hi Gillian

Good to read your memories of Speke. I moved there in 1939 when I was three months old and Speke really was a kid's paradise to gow up in then, even during the war. My cousins from the Dingle used to come to Speke on their holidays! I have written a few mempries about those days and will dig them out and psot them. Meanwhile, I think the area you are referring to was what we called The Laburnum Woods. There were lots of low-level bushes and a few ponds. A bit further on was Bluebell Wood, which had a moat around it and then the there was Mill Wood. There used to ne a railway station at Speke and the famous Table Bridge. near here there were also lots of large concrete triangles designed to stop tanks. Towards the airport was the Old Lane and on the other side of Speke Boulevard was Wiggy's Orchard, which we often raided and just as often got chased by Wiggy. The whole area was full of wildlife, particularly birds. I first lived in 127 Rycot Road, right opposite the entrance to what used to be B,B & G. where I did my apprenticeship/ later we moved to 37 Bray Road and then to 83 Hale Drive; my parents must have had something of the gypsy in them. I now live near Oxford and Banbury.

Regarads

Brian Reynolds

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Re: Speke in the early days -- robert connor, 05:51:13 05/11/06 Thu (81.152.92.192)

hi brian i am wiggys grand son i was only 3yrs old wen my grandad wiggy died. my mum is his daughter. the wiggys are all beried in the church opposite the cottages where they lived. i cannot remember my gradparents mutch only little memories of what he was like or if you would like to no anything more about wiggy and speke i could talk to my mum for more info. wiggys grandson

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[> [> [> Re: Speke in the early days -- Ted Carew (Happy), 14:32:24 09/30/09 Wed (86.5.151.251)

Hi Rob , tell me if i'm right is your Mum named Rose and lived at 82 LINNER ROAD b4 she got wed?and was her name Wignall?. cheers ..

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[> [> Re: Speke in the early days -- Colin Pattison, 04:05:01 09/10/07 Mon (84.70.136.68)

With mention of St. Christophers church, does anyone remember going to the pictures there in the church hall (hut)? I, with our "gang", used to go on Saturday afternoons and watch the "films" usually cowboy ones and then come out afterwards and pretend we were "cowies" slapping our backsides as if we were riding horses. Don't see any kids doing that now!
We also used to go up to table bridge and the woods nearby.
all where Fords is was fields in those days we could walk for miles without any trouble.
An other memory was of football matches lasting about 3 hours where everyone joined in being played on the field in Blackrod Avenue usually 20 a side, great fun.

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