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    Cowdall Rd. Braunstone ,Leicester.
    Memories.
    VE day May 1945.

    O youth those tender years have gone
    I’m ageing now it seems so long
    since kids played hop scotch in the street
    ran to Mr’s Moore’s for sweets

    When building dens was all the rage
    bonfires set the green ablaze
    winter warmers whirl, crash
    hurled by kids who’d watch them smash

    In gardens street or anywhere
    not a thought nary a care
    then Glad Ashley’s strident voice
    “Sorry Glad it’s Hobson’s choice”

    Winters cold begins to clear
    I feel the warmth of summers cheer
    Marlene Bishop sets her stall
    selling things to one and all

    Its party time, what a treat!
    tables stretching down the street
    Hitlers lost that awful war
    I wonder what he started for?

    Some days the street was quiet, bare,
    I guess the’ve gone the summer fair
    Braunny spinney I then would roam
    birds nesting for an hour alone

    Just a glimpse of days gone by
    when skylarks twittered in the sky
    those youthful days I sadly miss
    occasionally when I reminisce.
    JB -clik
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUx3MU9iM6c

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