Mickeyr

Nice polite little boys, oh dear, can't have been Gary and myself ! Best wishes, Mick

Hi Joy, It's really nice to learn that your mum, Joyce(?) is still with us, your dad would be "Harry" then? If I remember correctly you would be Patricia? I think that your father's friend might have been my father Gordon Reaney, my brother and I lived with him at number 140 next to the Co-op where he worked for a time before becoming a roundsman. We had distant relatives, Jack and Lily Laycock next door at 142, they had two daughters. I think that Harry had a military bearing and a heck of a moustache and recall that he and Joyce were really nice folks. There seemed to be very few cars around in the fifties and the streets quite narrow so a bit village like and by today's standards "quiet", a sprog certainly wouldn't be able to ride on the running board of a big old Wolseley car down a modern street. It is some years since I visited the area but it was nice to see that the area was on the up and up and that some of the landmarks such as the church, the Goodyear building and what was Mudford's were still there and in use and that the Georgian houses in the surrounding streets were being looked after. When we moved away the area was in a bit of a decline ahead of the wholesale demolitions and the construction of the parkway. The name Pinder rings a bell but I don't recall the shops that you mention. I think that there was a newsagents and a fruit shop (run by Mr Glaze?) on Broomhall Road opposite the church and Hanover Square and that there was a nursery school in a big old house somewhere close by.

Hi, just discovered this site, probably off thread but I lived on Upper Hanover street next to the Co-op and opposite the Laxen's off licence and the post office in the mid /late fifties to about 1962 when, as an 8 year old I moved away. I remember it as almost village like, quiet and a bit faded and really nice people.