Does anyone remember the archway to Holborn Square on the Queen Street and Old Chester Road Junction in Tranmere? It used to lead through into some old cottages that nestled in the shadow of the sandstone walls of the quarry. What a dreary dingy, dark, dismal place that was. They knocked the lot down and for a while it became Charlie Lane's scrap yard.
I don't remember Charlie Lane but I remember his son. I think he went Bebo High. Hime and his mates used to come around Temple Rd and causing trouble. Then later I went to a dance at a hall on Woodchurch Rd with Charles (as we called him). We thought there was going to be a fight so we reached down for the chair legs but they were all screwed to the floor. Those where the days early 60's wasn't just about the Beatles, it was about growing up and finding your way.
I remember the father Charlie Lane, had a few engines off him over the years, I also remember the Dances in the Scout Hut off Home Farm Rd on the Woodchurch,in the late 50s early 60s, better hadn't say too much about them, it wasn't really dancing it was more like a free for all, Oh Happy Days.
Used to live close by, they used to have the metal bin fires there on cold days, similar to the ones the roadworks people used to have outside their metal huts.
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