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Mick Strong
Coventry
76 of 83  Wed 20th Jan 2021 9:17pm  

Going down Hearsall Golf Course snowy slopes on mum's tea tray.
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Slim
Another Coventry kid
77 of 83  Wed 20th Jan 2021 10:28pm  

Yes, although the golf course was private, so normally out of bounds, when golf was snowed off, they unlocked the gates to let everyone in. I suppose everyone would have got in even if they hadn't unlocked the gates! Nothing kept me and my mates out, not even barbed wire, high walls with broken glass on top, or signs telling us to keep out. It was red rag to a bull - a challenge.
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Mick Strong
Coventry
78 of 83  Thu 21st Jan 2021 9:25am  

We used to get in by the picket gate at the Milk Bar end
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Mick Strong
Coventry
79 of 83  Sat 27th Feb 2021 6:48pm  

Anyone else ever go newting? We used to go to the pond in the field at the back of Ten Shilling Wood. It would have been near where WMG and Westwood Business Park are now.
Mick Strong

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Gas Centre
Perth Scotland
80 of 83  Sun 28th Feb 2021 5:28pm  

Mick I also went newting. My father had an allotment which was on the opposite side of the signal box by the bridge in Lythalls Lane. There was a pond adjacent to the allotment which was full of newts. I notice you referred to Hey Engineering in a previous post, I would think the pond was at the side of these premises. The allotments were accessed from a gate on the bridge. I wonder if it is still there.
Alan H

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gangan
Stockton, Southam
81 of 83  Wed 3rd Mar 2021 8:30pm  

Used to go newting and taddying in Caludon Park just on the left as you entered.
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Mick Strong
Coventry
82 of 83  Thu 4th Mar 2021 10:58am  

My mum used to go mad when I bought frog spawn home.
Mick Strong

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Mick Strong
Coventry
83 of 83  Wed 10th Mar 2021 5:50pm  

Did anyone else make long arrows out of their dad's garden canes? We used headless nails as the point, split the other end with a cross, made flights out of stiff card and then used knotted string to throw them with!
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