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I lived there in the 1960s till 1990 our house had 3 bedrooms there was me my twin sister and my brother then my sister 10 years later wew had loads of room

I lived in Rodney St at 164, from 1940s till 1960s, the waste land at the bottom of the hill i can remember as being a bombed site which included the Main Pool of the baths in Argyle St, my aunt lived at the bottom, Bessie Balcolme my mothers sister, can remember the bonfires in the road for VJ night, they were large, we collected bushes to keep them going but the fire service kept trying to douse them, using home built sleds was very scarry, but as there were no cars fairly safe, the local Milk Man, a Mr Braun used a pony and trap to deliver, the horse knew when to stop pulling and turned the float across the Street, and that was very nearly up to our house, I too went to the Woodlands School, and learnt to swim there, then in 1949 on to Park High, worst memory was the freeze in 1946 forever down at the Gasworks trying to get Coke, had to hire a handcart near Helena St to carry it, 6d a time, hard work as a child, think the coke was 6d a sack.

Boy do I remember the Gasworks and getting coke. Not sure how old I was(very young) but I have this memory of walking up Borough Rd with Mum pushing a pram with a bag of coke in and one on her back. A very long walk from the Gasworks up past the Central Library.

Indeed, a long way, but we were tough in those days.

Yep I remember the gas works .must have been 1959/60 my dad would push me in the pram from Eldon st get the bag of coke then sit me on top of it and push me back again good old days.......also remember the rag and bone man on his cart pulled by the old horse I gave him my dads best suit (his one and only) ang got a goldfish for it the I can still remember the look on my dads face when I ran in with the goldfish he got his suit back