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Perry Hall Park

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Carolann Taylor said:
This is a very old post now I'm replying to. My Nan lived next door to the Saywells In Derrydown Road overlooking Perry Hall Park and they did have a cycle shop. Their son was called Brian. Mrs Saywell was very ladylike and dressed beautifully.
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Nikcc101 is still around, he was on BHF yesterday so he probably will see your post.
 
Carolann Taylor said:
This is a very old post now I'm replying to. My Nan lived next door to the Saywells In Derrydown Road overlooking Perry Hall Park and they did have a cycle shop. Their son was called Brian. Mrs Saywell was very ladylike and dressed beautifully.
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Hello Carolann must have mixed Brian up with someone else I knew. I remember now that you mention it was Brian. Not sure when your Nan lived there but I was born in Dewsbury grove in 45 and left in 70 but my Mother was still there for a number of years. Do you remember the Kearneys who lived on the other side of Derrydown, probably about eight or ten houses up from the entrance to the right of way.
 
i remember mowing the grass there. and under a tree.was someone sleeping when i was done the person was still asleep so I went up to them he was not asleep. he was .
 
nickcc101 said:
Hello Carolann must have mixed Brian up with someone else I knew. I remember now that you mention it was Brian. Not sure when your Nan lived there but I was born in Dewsbury grove in 45 and left in 70 but my Mother was still there for a number of years. Do you remember the Kearneys who lived on the other side of Derrydown, probably about eight or ten houses up from the entrance to the right of way.
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Hello there, so sorry I didn't reply I had totally missed your response! My Nan & Granddad moved to Derrydown road in 1936/7. Granddad died in 1955 and Nan in 1975. The names Nan used to mention as neighbours were (all known as "Mrs", as it was more formal then): Saywell, Craddock, Breeze, Nongreave, Legge, but one only known by her first name, Louise (Louie) Burford. Mr Craddock next door was a manager at Tucker Eyelet. They had a hexagonal, white dovecote on a stand in their back garden with white doves! They also had a white rabbit, which used to pop through to see us! Lovely views of Perry Hall Park from those houses as they backed on to it.
 
I think I remember the name Mr Craddock, my father worked at Tuckers in the R&D department. We lived in Glendower Road.
 
Nearby then! Happy days in the park?! Ice cream in the pavilion, boating lake of course and tadpole and sticklebacks in the stream! Always sunny it seemed! :cool: . Just reading an excellent book about the history of the park, "Perry Hall Yesterdays" by Gerald Stunt. Really interesting.
 
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