Wired to play
Lewis grew up hanging out at his dad’s shop on Mill Road with his siblings and friends. He remembers playing football with five sons of another business owner ‘in the insurance carpark, off Mill Road. We found that space. It was rarely used as a carpark, though sometimes we did get in to trouble. We […]
Biking on bomb sites
By: Robin Pippa: Were there other kids that lived on your street – did you ever play out with them? Robin: Oh yeah, because St. Matthews Piece was just 50 yards away. And we’d have football matches. In the summer cricket matches. We’d ride our bikes there I was taught to ride my bike. And […]
Dobblers Hole
By: Robin Robin: Parallel with Sturton Street and Abbey Walk. And it was a slope, so kids used to ride their bikes down there and play all sorts of games. It wasn’t, I mean, Cambridgeshire is flat, but there was a little bit of a slope there yer know. Pippa: What did you do then? […]
Playing on tractors
By: Robin Robin: Oh, yes, the old cattle market or the cattle market when I was a kid, we used to go there. And they used to be all the sorts of animals you can imagine from cows, pigs, sheep, lambs, rabbits, poultry and it would be a lovely outing out just to walk around […]
Punch and Judy shows
By: Robin Robin: During the summer holidays, where I lived was St Matthew’s Pieces, which was a huge recreation ground and during the summer holidays, we used to have Punch and Judy shows. The man would set up his Punch and Judy thing on the grassy area and the kids would be most excited because […]
Brunswick School
By: Robin Robin: When I was a kid that the school was overlooking the river. It was on the side of Elizabeth Way called the Brunswick and, and that was a lovely environment because there was no busy road going past it as there was later on. And it overlooks the river. And there were […]
Bottle tops and Dales Brewery
By: Robin Robin: Oh there’s Dales Brewery. Sometimes we’d leave the ABC matinee on Saturday morning, the ABC Minors, and we’d either go through the cemetery and play cowboys or whatever around the gravestones, or we’d go via Dales Brewery. And they had a dump of bottle tops and we’d go and collect the bottle […]
Playing basketball
By: Diana Being a teenager and playing there.
Trainspotting
By: Robin Trainspotting Pippa: You also mentioned before about trainspotting. Did you do a bit of trainspotting as well? Robin: No, my brother did and I often used to go with him. And then there was like an access bridge for the railway staff, train drivers and things. And if you went to the top […]
Arthur Morgan and Parker’s Piece
By: Robin Emma: Did you ever play on Parker’s Piece? Robin: Oh Parker’s Piece! Oh you had to be very careful going on Parker’s Piece because groundsman was Arthur Morgan and he ruled Parker’s Piece with a rod of iron. You couldn’t cycle across Parker’s Piece because you’d have Arthur Morgan come and tell you […]
