Mayfield

[PSL]

As it's May, I was wondering does anyone know when the houses were built on the Mayfield. I'm 32 and can remember we used to play a five-a-side tournament on the Mayfield on the May day bank holiday. Also how big was the Mayfield, as there are the houses on there now, but also some newer houses which are accessed from the Worden estate, which back onto the Mayfield ones. But as these seem to be separate were they not part of the Mayfield. I don't mean the really new ones which are built on what was the childrens home.

Anyway I was just wondering.[]

[anacortesdamp]

The Mayfield was built on after we emigrated in 1968. I would guess maybe 70 or 71. I remeber the surprise to us to see houses in Leyland priced at 100,000 pounds. Dread to think what they're worth now.

The field(s) stretched from the iron fence along the south side of Church Road all the way to the brook that ran from the south edge of Balshaw's out to Worden Lane and beyond. East to West, it went from the west edge of the big house on Church Road (Beechfields?) to the east edge of the houses on the east side of Beech Avenue (one of which was my family home in the late 1940's) and to the swing gate at the east end of Park Road.

I think the fields on the south side of the brook were part of "Vicar's Fields".


Frank

[William R]

I seem to recall that pre-war May Festivals finished up on the Mayfield on Church Road. Wasn`t there a large Grandstand with a wooden floor built outside for the Festivla dancers?

[noel]

I returned up north in 1988 and they were starting building houses then, priced at £120k or so which was a lot of money 20 years ago for a house.

[PSL]

Thanks for all of that.

1988 sounds about right. And the houses to the South of the brook do run next to Vicarsfield Road, which brings you out at the park gates, so that would make sense.

The smallest houses on Mayfield now go for a minimum of £250K. Goodness knows what the really big ones would fetch.

[Alan Marsden]

Must be lots of wealthy folk in Leyalnd !

[MjO]

PSL

Frank has described the situation of the Mayfield well, and as lads we used to go up Beech Ave, left at the top and on to the iron railings and through the iron-lock gate down the incline to the brook [1] and along the vicars fields hedge to join the lane which came out further down from Jim Pilkingtons Garage, and across from the R.O.F - now cut in half by the Motorway, we used to cross over, and over the style down to Atherton Clough and the river, which came out at the side of Pack-Saddle Bridge.

[1] This is a scraperboard of the style over the brook to the South of the Mayfield and was taken from a sketch I did I guess in the 50's, and a few years later copied it to scaperboard.



MjO ...

[Alan Marsden]

MjO, that is excellent !

[noel]

A budding Wainwright.

[bmann2007]

I was born in mayfield road in 1935.i had 4 sisters and 2 brothers we played in the pavilion on mayfield and the vicars fields as far as atherton clough my grandfather farmed packsadle farm (john crook) we also played n the tennis courts on mayfield.one day on the pavilion we saw a german airoplane fly over mayfield so low the pilot waved to us and we waved back he was brought down in warrington.we also played on the swing gate on park rd nr i knew the duckworths roger and thelma i remember one of the beach trees falling on fred finches bungalow.football was played on st andrews pitch now houses,used to play with trevor hemmings.mick o brian bernard longton edward crossley was a priest,peter snape many more.trevor hemmings was a brickie at marlands and derick edmeads willwrite again later if anyone remembers bernard mann please write