My Dad is a Frechevillean, and I was born (1966), bred and is still there, and I also call myself a Frechevillean when people ask where I live. Does anyone remember the little shop where the garages used to be at the top of thornbridge drive? a lot of people seem to forget that it was there. My grandad used to tell me when I was young that they was a giant plug in the middle of the pond! I always thought he was pulling me leg, until recently I was watching a documentry about this lake, the council was clearing it out and was searching for the plug, and they found it too! My dad used to tell me that a small part of the pond was made as a paddling pool. Remember the millstones which originally built the pond up? We used to skate on the pond in the winter..then get chased off by the cops, I remember a old relation to a friend of mine walked across the pond while visiting without realising she was walking across a pond! seeing it was covered with ice and snow!
