Happy Memories From The 50s Early 60s

A Memory of Colden Common.

My great-aunts, Selena (who died when I was very young) and Daisy Young (nee Francis, and died 1962?), lived in Lower Moors Road. I forget the name of the house, but my brother and I used to play in the orchard behind the house. I will always remember the two monkey puzzle trees in the front garden. The house was lit by gas, with an outside toilet, and only one tap inside. Bert Stratton was a family friend, and a real nice man, who, to a young kid, knew everything about gardening, cricket, and anything else I ever wanted to know. Years later, my father had a book about the village in which it mentioned that my great grandparents lived in the Black Horse in the late 1800s/early 1900s. I also remember visiting my mother's cousin, Jack Francis, on a few occasions.