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Date Posted: 05:58:18 03/06/15 Fri
Author: Robert Jones (Good)
Author Host/IP: 90.204.143.163
Subject: Ganworth Rd./ Little Heath Rd. 1950-1970

Hi Everybody , Just found this site by accident, very nostalgic.
I remember the Birdman, I was five then, moreover that was the day I had my first CHOC-ICE, off my dad, more memorable! I remember the Ford factory getting built , there seemed to be orange clay everywhere. There was a stream running through the millies', when it rained it was a very dangerous torrent, the big guys had put a wire rope across it and slid across using a wooden V-shaped fork, not for me.
Oggie shore was a great adventure then for all reasons, I had my first cigar walking past the 'Dove' and 'Firsties' woods, with two other lads ,( I was eight ) took one whiff and walked straight into a tree, honestly! Fell out of a huge tree on the demolished farm, Crichleys' I think , at the end of the runway, trying to shake a sparrow-hawks' nest out, (yeah, it was only a snackers')but I fell for it, ended up in an ambulance and Myrtle St. hospital and six stitches, thought I was gonna die !
I remember all the grocery vans and the 'cottage' Hale Rd, as we called it, all had that lovely smell of paraffin ,(always reminds me of Xmas somehow), they used for heat and light as they had no electricity. We used to go to the Pier Head on the bus for 1 old penny , and play on the all the busses in the terminus, ringing the bells, we knew where every bus number went , when we got home we cut out numbers and played busses on our bikes. Couldn't do that now! We used to go Garston baths, Woolton baths , Cornwallis St baths,in town, (only saltwater in city). Even Harrison Dv over the water and we were less than ten years old. Does anybody recall the 500 bus turning over on the corner of Eastern and Central, it was one of the old type with the freezing door at the back.
Remember the 'Dove' around 1960 if you were not in by 7.30.pm you wouldn't get in !I remember my mother coming back home with a right face-on because they were late, had nothing to do with how long it took to ready like ! I remember the fairs at Western Ave and the Fords end once, and trying to catch dragonflies at the ponds before some big bullies would always turn up and try to throw you in.
Bommy nights were amazingly atmospheric, it was total chaos, all different closes, greens', rds, dragging trees and bushes up from the woods , building the biggest bommy, and trying to light the others' dead early, but they were always guarded by the dads. Then back to your own garden for the fireworks, after that, chucking a spud in fire until black, pretending it was great, Vile! Then spending two or three days trying keep your fire still lit till your was last to go out. Making 'French Arrows', throwing arrows with a knotted string on Alderwood school field, they could go hundreds of yards if thrown properly. Got one in the head once , only from two yards like. All the houses then had immaculate gardens with neatly trimmed privets until our gang played The Grand National from one end of Little Heath to the other, near enough. Everybody wanted to be Nicholas Silver ,the white horse that won once. We'd go round on school hols' with shears asking people if the wanted their hedges cut for a few pence, or wash cars, there was only about six cars in Speke then I think. You could play in your road without worrying about cars then. Making 'Steeries', planks with wheels! forerunner to the skateboard! Breaking your mums' brush handle using it to push.
It was mentioned on QI by Stephen fry last week about the leprechaun mass hysteria in the '60's in Liverpool. Does anybody remember that ? We ,kids at Alderwood school , all went mad running down to the woods at dinnertime and after school for three days, I remember dozens of kids searching in the ferns and getting all excited when a rustle would cause a riot, only a rabbit legging it though !
I've got lot's more memories of my childhood in Little Heath rd, would love to share with you , maybe later.
Cheers for now.

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[> Re: Ganworth Rd./ Little Heath Rd. 1950-1970 -- alex maxwell (old but happy), 08:55:01 03/29/15 Sun (90.195.131.161)

Hi Robert I lived in in Damwood,behind the boys club,between Ganworth and Littleheath from 1949 and 1972.I remember doing all those things,especially jumping over the gardens,we must have been mad.Where did you live?

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[> Re: Ganworth Rd./ Little Heath Rd. 1950-1970 -- peter johnson (hap days), 03:49:20 05/12/16 Thu (101.177.197.139)

I lived at no 20 little heath rd from when it was first built,we moved there from bold place in the city went to st christophers then all hallo, fred Roberts was the headmaster mr m cabe he had a false leg

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