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Now that the wonderful new website is up and running, it’s great to be able to report that it’s wasting no time in finding new members! At last Thursday night’s meeting in Lee Valley Millennium Centre on 26 August, the Harrison family … Continue reading →

I lived in the prefabs, derogatory term tin town for 16 years.  It was a peaceful environment, open doors, loads of kids.  When they built Lee Park it all changed and the inner city moved in.  As a child growing … Continue reading →

I remember that in the Prefabs we had a coal hole.We used to climb  up on the railway line behind the Co-Op and using a bucket collect coal.Sometimes when no one was about ,we would visit a  train bunker,  and … Continue reading →

I remember we used to play football in the Taylor’s back garden in Lineside Road   (Bernard and Brian) with Ronnie and Leanard McDiarmid and several more boys whose names I can’t remember  and the game would be over when … Continue reading →

I remember gypsies pushing a hand cart down Birkside Road selling birds eggs for egg  collectors .It was one of our hobbies in the late 50′s and we used to go looking for nests in Arrow Park, Birkenhead and on … Continue reading →