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[jinx]

can anyone remember the clay hole on the mushroom field area,? many times us lads on our way home from the council school use to watch the little wagons being pulled up the steep slope filled with clay on its way to the brickyard.

on the weekends during the war the home guard use to practice throwing hand grenades down at the bottom of the
clayhole.

[Harry]

I can, very well. It was at the end of Dorothy Street and could be reached that way. Alternatively, you could walk over 'The Mush' past the council school and then along behind Dorothy St. It was enormous and, in the 50's seemed to be very active. Around the top there was a pretty flimsy wire fence. It you walked along the track which ran around the rim of the quarry, for a few hundred yards and then turned right into the grass you reached a disused quarry which was by the 50's grassed over but still quite steep. I played there and my father before me and we knew it as 'The Downey'

[x4man]

Pilkingtons used to dump rubbish fibreglass down there. We used to go looking for stoneys (marbles)
There where dolly tracks from top to the bottom and we used to ride in said dolly into the water at the bottom
I remember falling down into the fibreglass (we called it itche-coo) right up to my neck!!
Boy did I itch...

[Dicky D]

x4man, on 22 January 2012 - 07:07 PM, said:

Pilkingtons used to dump rubbish fibreglass down there. We used to go looking for stoneys (marbles)
There where dolly tracks from top to the bottom and we used to ride in said dolly into the water at the bottom
I remember falling down into the fibreglass (we called it itche-coo) right up to my neck!!
Boy did I itch...

I remember it very well x4man. I grew up playing in it then ended up working in it, so yes I know it and you describe it very well.
It was infested with rats and the common belief in those days was that rats wouldn't cross over glass. well believe me they would and they did.

Tommy, do you remember the footy game we used to play in Royal Grove: '3 pops in'?
One of the gang would go in goal while the rest used to try and score 3 goals then the scorer of three would go in goals. Kept us busy for hours on a Sturday afternoon and most of Sunday too.

[leschip]

DD,
I have not heard 3 pops in since playing out on Brown's Field, Prescot in the 60's. I'm sure it will also ring a bell with JVY. Thanks for the memory

[gypsygeoff]

Three pops in was a main stay of our football history,as was ''spot''.

[Honey]

I remember the quarry and the fibreglass, we used to play around there, one time we found some old gas masks!

[leschip]

"Spot"??? Don't know that one Geoff, give us a clue, cock