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The sports ground was very close to St. Bernards Grange almost next door. When I was a child it was Wilmot Breedon's but it may have been owned by another firm before or after. There were big white gates to it and it was just at the end of the central island that ran (I think it is still...

I lived in Barrows Lane for the first 20 years of my life from 1947 until I got married. We had a lane alongside our house that led into Wilclare Road. Down this lane used to be the village post office. When it closed it was possible to get into the Willmott Breedon sports ground at the...

It was possible to see the pond from the classrooms at Lyndon Green School. I was always gazing out of the window and watching the two swans swimming on it.

Hello Hugh, we were in the same class at one point in our school life.

I started at Lyndon Green on the first day it opened - I was four and a half so it was probably the beginning of 1952. There was tape on the windows, it was so new. I missed most of the first days as I had tonsilitis and had to have them out. But my infant teacher was lovely. Her name was...

Mrs Coombs took me for Maths and for some reason she hated me. Mind you she once sent me out of class to remove some makeup she thought I was wearing - I came back with it still on and she did not notice; presumably she thought I wouldn't dare. Her daughter Miss Coombs took us for Geography...

I left Sheldon Heath in 1963 to go to the Technical College up the road. I remember Miss Roberts - she always wore a mortar board and cape for assemblies and measured the girls skirt lengths if she thought they were too short. She made two of us go to her office to tell us off for not closing...