Growing up near Milford Street

This old house

was pulled to

make way for

Milford Bridge.

‘Take a trip down Memory Lane,

Where I am a child again,

And terraced houses can be found,

Instead of tarred and concrete ground’

Rita Lynn Jacob wrote

the poem

‘Ode to Rampart Road’

Rita, three years old, walking along

Rampart RoadA three-year-old today

There were a lot of children in the area. Listen to the

memories of some people who lived there.

Sue Morrissey

Children played outside

more in those days.

Phyllis Maple

Les Hayter

Bag a swing,

whizz down the slide,

The carousel dips

as it spins around,

Visit the Greencroftor Riverside,

Sweeping your feet

High off the

ground.

‘Whiz down the slide’

Pete Chapan

Charles Humby

Remembers playing

in the street too!

Charles Humby

Charles Humby and his

friends played marbles.

Michael Winterman

Played go-carts

with his friends

Michael Winterman

Jeremy Moody rode his bike down the hill

Jeremy

Moody

‘But if you have no wish to roam,

Toys and games await at home,

Create a theatre on the stairs,

A princess’s palace

Beneath the chairs’

‘Or find

a rope

and twirl

in time,

To a

traditional

skipping

rhyme.’

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/studentssite/playgroundrhymes.html

But life wasn’t all

fun and games!

Running a home

was hard work

and children had

to help too.

Iris Evans

Bath nightIris Evans

Margery Bodger

Credit: Stivulya

There were

always jobs

to do at home

and errands

to run.

Iris Evans

Iris Evans

© IWM (MH 26395)

And of course, there was school …

We have used oral history as evidence to

find out how different it was to grow up

50 or 60 years ago.

In another 50 years it will be different again.

What do you think you will remember best?