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'No child in the village owned a bike only one girl who happened to be a Protestant'
Dances were held in the village hall and the girls and boys would come from the countryside to attend and they would leave their bicycles in our yard for safety. Of course they would no sooner be gone to the dance than we would borrow the bicycles. …
Tags: bicycles, Protestants, village dances
'If you hit the ball over the neighbour's wall you were 'out''
Holiday times were greatly looked forward to but strangely little remains in my memory other than the tennis club, cycling around the place for no apparent reason and cricket on the lawn. Memory suggests a time of indolence. Cricket on the lawn was…