Lewis Road Rec

by | Jan 29, 2023 |

Behind Glebe Avenue, backing onto the Standard Estate and Fox`s Path was Lewis Road Recreation Ground. Our local playground and football field, it even had a toilet block. Jack the Keeper It was a proper municipal park run by a lovely old chap called Jack (Ellisson?),...

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Glebe Avenue, the shops.

by | Jan 26, 2023 |

Remembering the local shops around Glebe Avenue I’ve been living in Glebe Avenue since 1963, there were shops on nearly all the corners and only three cars in the street when we moved in. At one end of the road was a telephone box outside a sweet shop called Jennerways …

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