Colinsfoot

If you walk across the road to the corner of Barkers Pool there's still visible shrapnel damage on the low wall surrounding the small garden.

I was a regular from about 1967, twice a week regular as clockwork. It was always rammed and as others have said some proper crumpet got in there. Initially the DJ was Alan Dale who played mostly top twenty pop music and they used to have candles in bottles on the tables to give it ambience. He was replaced with a DJ who called himself Sexy Rexy....I don't know what his real name was...but he played wall to wall prog rock and I loved it. Great memories of headbanging in front of his speakers to Deep Purple etc and I've still got a ringing in my ears 50 years later.😎 I was mortified to see it's been turned into a convenience shop now.😠 Just a word about the beer...it was from the old Tennants Brewery and the landlord, George? kept it very well, and if I could have a quid for every pint I had there I'd be a rich man now.

Rowlinson Technical School demolished June 2017 RIP

I was there 63 to 65....nobody has mentioned Mr Gomm, known as Mogg, a chemistry teacher who's experiments always failed. "well take my word for it, it does happen, now write it up"

People I remember from the area include Roger Mills who I went to school with and lived at the bottom of Cartmel and a lad called Paul ? who lived opposite in the yard at the gennel into the backfield. I also remember someone called Ken, quite a bit older than me, who was called up into the army who also lived on Cartmel facing the backfields. I also had a friend called David Cranswick who lived higher up on Cartmel.

I actualy lived in Crabtree Farm from about late 1953 to about 1960. It was a wonderfull playground with the warren of paths and hidey holes all around. I went to Woodseats School and used to walk there and back twice daily coming home for lunch. Other memories are of Harrisons shop on the corner of Carmell and Smithywood, they were about the only people round there to have a car, and Blands off licence on Woodseats Road. Their youngest lad Mick was in my class at school. I remember sledging down Smithywood Cres from the Chesterfield Road end and coming a cropper once or twice on the bend. I used to play in Barbers Fields and on a Saturday I would go to Woodseats Picture Palace for the afternoon matinee. All in all very happy memories of childhood.