Best years of my life
Hi All, who ever you may be, i do hope this Webb site takes off and there are more people out there who want to remember there time living in Kennet house flats, my name Anita Juniper, i lived at 36, on the top floor! no lifts in them days, even though my brother Kevin Juniper had asthma and my mother Joyce could hardly walk after a road accident, you might remember my dear mother who sadly died this year, she was a lovely woman very friendly always talking, she was also very loud you could here her shouting me my brother and sister Karen Juniper in at 10pm every night off the top balcony, she just could not get us in we loved to play out, never moving out of the flats, we were safe, all the children were safe unlike today! on my landing there lived my best friend Julie Winfield, her brother Malcolm fell from the top floor just missing the railings he was only about 9 or 10, it was terrible, he was not the boy Billy was talking about he was called Ian Wallbank he lived in Maybank flats, ( Hi Billy if you read this ) anyway under my flat there lived the Blacks i know they live in Cheetham hill still because my two daughters know there children, there where Jackie who was my friend and her brothers Raymond Kevin and Michael, under them there where the Lapalanskies, Bazel ,Steve, Nicky and mike, they where always playing instruments on there balcony there mother was very good to my mother and would borrow her 10pence to put in our electric meater when our electric had ran out, times were very hard for everyone then but we were all such good neighbors, you could leave your front door open all day and now one would go in unless invited, some one was always short of something be it sugar, milk, bread, coal, but you know you could just go down stairs and someone had whatever was needed and vise verse, when i first found this sight it made me very happy looking at the photos of the flats and reading about the shops but it also maid me feel very sad because they were very good times, i remember Sam the barber he was a lovely man and his wife was to, i now he died some years ago because i bumped into his wife a few years ago, i also remember the shops in the oval, the butchers, mikes shop, also Marie's mini market, there were also a shop to the right of the flats that my mother used to get tick from which was great until people ruined it by not paying, then we had to starve most weekends till my mother got paid again on the Monday's, the summers seem to last forever and all the children used to play out all day, i think most of us lived on bread and jam and diluted orange, during the day, i remember Mrs Quin or Quinny to all of us children, she used to organise day trips to Blackpool in the 6 weeks hols and she ran the youth disco in the flats called pips, she used to arrange trips to other discos it was fantastic, i will never forget her, ice skating and roller skating, dancing 3 nights a week, some of us used to go to Noel Timpsons youth club up Cheetham hill road when we got a bit older, do you remember my friends, Gina minogue, Lesley Rose, June Crawford, Annabell Muttar, Angela and Melony Maynard, (Buggies sisters,) Melvin!!!!! Maynard the bully remember him! he`s not that bad, I'm not scared of him anymore and see him around, but i used to be terrified of him he used to throw stones at me and my friends and pinch all our sweets, we used to run a mile when ever we saw him, do you remember (Felle )Angela and Christine Osna, and there sister Marion, Ann Gaffney and Scotte, ( please forgive me if i spell any of your names wrong) its just what i remember, the beautiful Kim Farnell, and Christine, my best friends Madelyn Kavanagh, Debbie and Veronica Frances, we had some good times, i remember getting on the bus to school one day and two little boys got on they was about 8 and 10, they were very cute, i was 11 and very prim as prim as always, starring over at the older boy i thought he was very nice and saw him around on his chopper bike, we ended up living together years later and have a daughter Jasmine but after being together for 13 years we split 9 years ago, funny how things turn out, his name is Anthony longdon, anyway the boys!! do you remember Billy Gaffney, Ian and Gerrald Wallbank, Ged Kavanagh who sadly died also Sammy Mcdougle Who was murdered, Ged Molloland my brothers friend also Brian Turner, Leslie Stubbs, Tony Danny and Ian Ford, Obe, Kiethley Slaven, Conney with the beautiful blue eyes, Steve Crawford who used to bully my brother and anyone else who was smaller them him and that was all of Kennett house!!! he had a nice looking brother called Jimmy, his sister June was my friend so i was OK, there were Danny and Jakie Bates, Sonny, Gary Muttar, his sister my friend died young, Annabell she was lovely, the days seemed to be long, the summers hot and long, it was 1974 when i first got a small radio and used to fall asleep listening to luxemburg radio, we had 2 televisions lucky! no one had sound and one had the picture we covered the one with sound and watched the one with the picture until the lines kept coming on and my brother would kick it, if we wee lucky my Mother gave us some spends to go to bellview, it was great, a circus, a fair ,a zoo, a fairground, roller skating all rolled into one, my sister Karen used to like bringing Little children into our house to play in the bath, she used to bring 2 little girls in that always seems to be left on there own, one was called Linda and the other Diane, i don't remember there second names but i remember one summer walking down to my friend Annabell`s house when Linda who was only 3 years old came running into the flats and she was crying i asked her what happened and she told me Diane had bean knocked down and was on the road, i ran out of the flats and there she was just lying there still with blood dripping from her nose, she was died she was only 5 years old, she was beautiful, her mother was in town drinking! there was another little boy who died outside the flats on the road he was called Charlie he was my little friend i looked after him, one night his Dad took him to the shops and did not cross at the crossing he crossed further down and got hit by a car, he died in hospital his Dad lived but was very drunk when took to the hospital, he has a sister called Angela, it was tragic, most of the time we all looked out for each other, in the winter we would go and hang out in one of the ovals the stair wells, and in the summer we were on the roofs, its true what someone said they would of made a construction company millions today, Kennett house was unique.
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21/12/07, 12:04 AM
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