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I was born in Bramley, Leeds in 1932, wrote Derek Hindle, and lived near the Daisy Inn at 172 Stanningley Road. We used to play 'kick can and ook it' on Back Lane with a group of children during the war and often would hang on the back of carts returning to the stables with their horses at night.
They were being used during WWII due to petrol rationing, by greengrocers and other merchandisers, instead of motor transport. The drivers didn't seem to mind as they knew many of the kids' parents were serving in the war or on munitions.
I remember Thomas Maidens, as my Uncle Joseph Hindle, who lived at 14, Browns Terrace was married to Helen (Molly) Maidens, and her brother Gerald Maidens was Thomas's father and his mother's name was Eileen' and they also lived in Browns Terrace, though I forget the number.
I remember too Brian Beesting vaguely, as his parents had the greengrocers shop at the end of Browns Terrace next door to Coopers Confectioners; and they both faced Stanningley Road.
I remember Rodney Rhodes too, though I guess he was a bit younger than myself. I also remember Mrs Alderson and her son Charlie living at No 3 Daisy Row.
My mother's brother's wife was called Mary Thompson before she married my uncle, Victor Coe, and she was born in the house at No 1 Daisy Row, when her father and mother had a grocers shop there in the early 1900's.
I left Bramley in 1950 to do National Service in the R.A.F. and never returned to Bramley, having met my wife in the south of England. We lived in Folkestone, Kent, for 11 years prior to emigrating to Tasmania in 1966 with our five children.
They are all now married and we have seventeen grandchildren, so we are now quite a large family, even though there was only my sister and myself as children.
My sister Margaret continued to live at 172, Stanningley Road until 1987 when she came out to Tasmania to live with us and she died here in 1996.
Derek Hindle, Tasmania, 2002
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