by Silver surfer » Sun Jun 28, 2009 9:11 pm
The memory dims about the basin but I remember the area which is now the site of Saltwells estate being developed. Some of the houses in Copse Road where I moved to as a teenager have suffered from subsidence. Hardly surprising as it was all mined. When the old boat house was demolished it was a source of free bricks which went into building garden walls and path edgings for my future in laws who also lived on the estate, which along with The Priory was where many of the ex residents of Woodside/Holly Hall went to live after the slum clearance. It must have seemed liked heaven on earth to have an indoor toilet and bathroom as my husband and his brothers were bathed in a tin bath in the kitchen on cold days and in the yard in the summer months.
Researching Foley, Burley, Dean, Danks, Smith, Pugh, Hughes, Shakespeare.