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Date Posted: 23:11:36 02/12/12 Sun
Author: Lillian Savage (happy)
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Re: Speke in the early days
In reply to: Ken Savage 's message, "Re: Speke in the early days" on 13:28:30 03/20/06 Mon

I remember Saint Christopher's school in the 1950's my teacher was Miss Oakley, my brother Peter was a prefect and sent me to her for the cane. Growing up in Speke was great, I lived in Upton Close till 1959 when we left to live in Australia, Peter used to take a gang of us to the Dam Woods were we would collect the broken branches off of the trees to build our bonfire, all the neighbors would keep the broken furniture and we used to compete with Upton Green to see who had the biggest, he also made a Guy Fork and made us go around knocking on doors asking a penny for the Guy he then wouls buy fireworks and sparkler's and share the around, it was a great time to be a kid we were hardly ever in side there was always something to do, playing cricket using the telegraph pole as the stumps, us girls used to whip our spinning tops along the pavement and the best was making a slide around the close when it snowed, my mum was always putting ashes from the fire on it. Does anybody remember the tent church in Upton Close. Some of the peopke I remember where Irene Margret and Ann Simpson, Tommy Lyons, Wally Jones, Charley Jaego, there where more boys than girls. I remember Lonnie Donegan arriving to visit his mum in Little Heath Road he was in a beautiful covertable car we had never seen anything like it. I went to All Hallows and got a big shock when I started school in Melbourne Australia they handed me a brown paper bag with a sandwich in it the bread was stale and then we had to go outside to eat in the cold, I was very upset and decided I was going back to Speke on the next boat, I have been home several times and have been back to Speke each time.

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Re: Speke in the early days -- Angela Thompson (nee Barton) (Everitt) (St Christophers church), 22:00:10 11/23/12 Fri (86.142.115.240)

I am now an Ex-pat and upon returning to Liverpool Speke we went to Stapleton Ave my mum and her brother & sister lived at 24 Stapleton Avenue across the way from St Christophers it was our haunt especially the social club.

My Mum told me that when they where building the foundations for the then new St Christophers church (not the new small one there now) But the big old one then the family dog died and my nan & brother took the dog over and buried her in the foundations of the church they would laugh about it.... they would say well, it's one way to get into heaven and she was consecrated as well as the ground she was buried in....I still remember this story to this day. Hope it brings a smile to your faces..it did to mine and I had to explain to my hubby why upon seeing the new small newly built St Christophers was I giggling away...Cripes, he said, do you think they would have come across her...Naaa, I said she would of been long gone, but they must have been flamin puzzled by the coat in the footings (they wrapped the dog in an old coat)if it survived which I doubt....

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