22-Oct-2010, 12:08 PM
We lived in Stockport when I was about 3 - I'm told I learn't to count in the shelter; hearing the bombs landing on Manchester.
I remember there was a glider carcase on the roadside just down from the infants school in Fox lane - or am i dreaming?
Anyone else have sugar wrapped in muslin as a sweet substitute? Granny Threlfall used to do it for us.
There were rectangular concrete shelters in Deighton Ave (the one I tried flying off with a parachute made out of an old blackout curtain - it didn't work but I didn't break anything either) and Balcarres Place - dogleg entrances both ends. The Balcarres Place one was our gang's "roll your own dogends in newspaper and try to smoke place" - that didn't work too well either!
Jerry
PS I gave up smokes for 3months last year but have started again - about 7 a day - I blame my habits for coffee and tobacco on the shop in Towngate; under the big oak counter were big bottom drawers - one had pipe tobacco in rolls/coils, to be sold by the ounce, and in the next drawer, coffee!. The best aromas in the world.
I remember there was a glider carcase on the roadside just down from the infants school in Fox lane - or am i dreaming?
Anyone else have sugar wrapped in muslin as a sweet substitute? Granny Threlfall used to do it for us.
There were rectangular concrete shelters in Deighton Ave (the one I tried flying off with a parachute made out of an old blackout curtain - it didn't work but I didn't break anything either) and Balcarres Place - dogleg entrances both ends. The Balcarres Place one was our gang's "roll your own dogends in newspaper and try to smoke place" - that didn't work too well either!
Jerry
PS I gave up smokes for 3months last year but have started again - about 7 a day - I blame my habits for coffee and tobacco on the shop in Towngate; under the big oak counter were big bottom drawers - one had pipe tobacco in rolls/coils, to be sold by the ounce, and in the next drawer, coffee!. The best aromas in the world.
Jerry Threlfall