Who remembers "The Field"? We played there all the time as children (we lived on Durlstone Crescent) There was a big old house at the top, called The Warren I think, and accessed from Gleadless Common. We all thought a witch lived there. Honestly. There was a way through the field onto Ridgeway Crescent, if you were small enough you could squeeze through the hole in the fence, but I saw many a large lady climbing over, with the help of an old metal barrel. This cut short the walk up to Manor Top and our school by quite a distance.

Was that the farm house on the left, near the top?

No Crooksey, The Warren was about half way down, on the left, above Durlstone Crescent and just above the row of 3 or 4 bungalows where the Connup family lived