I grew up in this area,it was my playground! and my first memories go back to early 70's..
St Lukes church was derelict then, and we used to go up to look at it an play in it, even though it was dangerous,and we were told not too, an there was talk of it being haunted,
and you could get 'the plague' just by goin in there- it fascinated me!
There were rows of desks bolted to the floor in one part, an slidey blackboards on the walls-it was just like goin back in time! Ive recently had this confirmed by a lovely little old lady i was talking to, who also grew up there,that it was a school room.
Also, our doctors was along there, on the same side as the garage a little further up,it was just a big terraced house that i remember, you walked into the first room and in there was a great big wooden polished table that dominated the middle of the room,and around the walls of the room were lots of wooden chairs.
You took the nearest empty chair and sat and waited....you
would hear a door go,then a buzzer, then the person nearest the door would get up,and go into the doctor in the next room!-no receptionist in them days! worked well though everyone got seen an he was a lovely doctor, Dr Mcauley his name was, i never used to mind goin cos he would give me a sweet!
