Good memories of my childhood playing along the canal where all us kids used to play

Hope you dont mind me asking Jill but i just noticed your maiden name and i use to go to school with girl called Linda Ayres she lived in Harwoods Road we went to Victoria i used to call for her dont know if shes any relation.

As a boy my adventure playground was Cassiobury Park. Looking at the picture of the lock keepers cottage, all I remember of it was a derelict house beside the lock. In the summer we would swim here and occasionally jump from the bridge, we used to draw quite a crowd maybe this is why we were so foolhardy. As for the sacrilege of the Park Gates. Vandalism by the then Council, it beggars believe it was pulled down.The Council should totally rebuild down to the last brick Wooden gates an all..