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apples that we picked off the trees and then put the maggoty ones on the top - no one ever twigged it and mums and dads were very pleased because you'd got all these nice apples. It was much better than scrumping. Besides if you got caught by PC Hyams, you'd get a cuff on the ear and he had a hand like a side of beef; if he hit you your ears were ringing for days after! He wouldn't go and tell your parents but tell you straight that if he caught you again, you'd get another cuff and be up in court. But if he caught you once you didn't do it again."" From the bottom of Coldean Lane to the beginning of Wild Park was Woolards Orchards which was easy to get into. But you had to keep an eye out for Slimey Joe who I think was a special constable. There was a code of honour that you wouldn't thieve off anybody's allotment, because they were all people in the same boat as you - you'd only scrump off the big orchards, and then you'd only do it until you got a smack round the head by PC Hyams. We never used to stay in - what entertainment was there when you stopped in? You had an old coalfire to sit round on a winter's night and a radio to listen to. There was no television. We used to play football and cricket on the Wild Park - the pavilion doesn't seem to have altered at all. | |||||
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