My House, My Street

I was born on the 10th March 1937 at our house on Studley Road, a house owned by my Nan, a three-bed roomed semi. We lived there, me, Mam and Dad with Nan and my cousin Geoff. Geoff was a son of my Aunt Lou who had a very big family in one of the first Batchley houses. Granddad Wright, according to Nan a ne’er-do-well, died when I was very young. Again according to Nan, by falling down the Parade toilet steps while drunk and breaking his neck. (There were underground toilets on the Parade, between the top of Unicorn Hill and the Smallwood Hospital, in those days.) I used to sleep with my Nan, in the back room, Mam and Dad in the front bedroom and Geoff in the box room..

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