Grafton Rd gully

[cakemorebloke]

there is a little lane that backs onto grafton rd and kestrel rd dad used to say there wasa spring on there also little field off it who owns that
any one know owt

[Antie Em]

Don't think anyone owns it - if it's the one I'm thinking of, it's used by the people who's houses back onto it.

[cakemorebloke]

i heard the land was owned but the council could not trace them

[Antie Em]

i heard the land was owned but the council could not trace them

Well in that case then, someone should cultivate it and they can then claim it

[cakemorebloke]

found that they have found some medevil remains on wat was the site of the old barrel pub also there was some sand pits on what is now kestrel rd

[Antie Em]

found that they have found some medevil remains on wat was the site of the old barrel pub also there was some sand pits on what is now kestrel rd

I'm suprised they let them carry on building the houses. We're building a block of flats in Handsworth by St Mary's Church and they stopped the work for nearly a year, while they carried out a "dig". They gave us a report though and it was really interesting.

[snoopysue]

I thourght these days things had to be checked out properly - I remember being in York city centre as a kid and getting dragged round some dig or other, thourght it was dead boring!
I know better now, can be fascinating, especially if they've got time to talk to you!

[Antie Em]

I thourght these days things had to be checked out properly - I remember being in York city centre as a kid and getting dragged round some dig or other, thourght it was dead boring!
I know better now, can be fascinating, especially if they've got time to talk to you!

Some brilliant "digs" in York. It was when they were working on Marks and Spencer that they discovered what is now the Jorvic Centre. I love York - taking my grandson for a weekend there next month - he's 11 and really into ancient history.

[Rob]

What little lane's that then Cakemore Lad?
At the top of Grafton Road ? In the middle? Where?

[Rob]

"The Gulley!!!
It ran at the side of The Barrel!!
Haven't they built houses on that little field?
I was a paper boy at Barclays and i delivered papers to those houses 1960/61.
The lads from Brook Road and the private houses in Grafton road had a football pitch on that little field end of the 50's.
There was a spring up that gulley.Just before the footpath into Ferndale Road-Kestrel Road.Just below my mate Tony's garden.Water was always trickling down.In fact on the 1902 OD map a spring is mentioned.
I think everyone on the Cakemore Estate walked up that gulley!!

[cakemorebloke]

never found the spring they must have buried it wen i was a kid the feild was just over grown great for playing army in there was a little path to it from kestrel rd too
did u say you knew our janet pm me your surname and il tell her wen i go to see her
used to nip to the barrel beeroff to fetch me dads park drive wasnt half dark on that last bit i used to sprint up there lol

[cakemorebloke]

just had a gander on an olddddddd map that gulley has been there since at least 1890

[linell]

Please don't put people's names on here, that may still be alive, thankyou from Linell.