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Park Terrace
(Photo - © Kathryn J Ing)
Park Terrace, Leycett Lane.Looking over from Kents Lane,Finney Green.(Donated by Nick Chidlow - Park Terrace)
Park Terrace is the only remaining street in Leycett, and still looks the same now from the front as it did when my father was a lad. The miners that lived in the houses at Park Terrace were given the opportunity to purchase their homes by Lord Quentin Crewe, who was then the landowner. My Grandad, Selwyn Ing was one of those miners. He purchased number 120 Park terrace for £1000,which even in those days was quite a good price for a 3 bed roomed property.120 remained the Ing family home until sadly in July 1997 my much treasured and beloved Grandma Gladys Ing (Nee Viggars) passed away. She remains in my heart today. I always remember from my childhood that life at Leycett was great, you could run through the fields of the Ponderosa Farm picking mushrooms, build tree houses in the woods and make rope swings over the old railway lines behind the cricket pavilion – it was the best. There are 11 houses at Park Terrace, one of which is detached and at the end of the row, closest to the Ponderosa. The house was called "The White Cottage" in my fathers childhood days he tells me. At that time the family living there were the Colliery Mangers family. At the front of my Grandparents house when it was first built there was an acorn planted which when it grew was to be the border between Madeley Parish & Keele Parish.The tree still stands today and is a marvellous Giant Oak Tree which is now protected by the National Trust and cannot be pruned in any way or felled. The Oak divides the garden wall and grew in what was my Grandads rhubarb patch. At the rear of the houses in each yard were the toilet and of course the coal shed.
Some miners tended to either rear their own animals for meat (chickens / Pigs) or grow vegetables as the cost to buy them from the shop on a miners wage was quite a lot then. My Grandad had previously kept pigs before he moved the family to Park Terrace, which was when they lived at ‘The Old Offices’ at the other end of Leycett Lane just past where the Level Crossings used to be. Also on my Grandad’s land at park Terrace he built a shed and an asbestos topped lean-too, this is where he kept all his work tools and chopped the logs for the fires inside the house. Some houses had an air raid shelter at the backs.Each house shared a front garden path and gate with the adjoining property, my Grandparents neighbour was a lovely man called Lenny Broadhead, he had moved in with his wife Lizzy (nee Elliott) when my father was a child.
If you stand with your back to Park Terrace you can see the hilltops and farmhouses of Finney Green,You can cut across the field opposite to get to Finney Green in about 3-4 minutes.
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