joiner andy Posted October 12, 2011 Share Posted October 12, 2011 did you ever go apple scromping? i did as a kid:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackey Posted October 12, 2011 Share Posted October 12, 2011 Is that not stealing apples...... As i was brought up on the kelvin Flats and i can assure you there was no such things like that happened around where i lived.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joiner andy Posted October 12, 2011 Author Share Posted October 12, 2011 Is that not stealing apples...... As i was brought up on the kelvin Flats and i can assure you there was no such things like that happened around where i lived.... no apple trees? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Cocker Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 We did all the time as kids in the 70s. Used to live at Basegreen and on the back field behind Jaunty Road every other house seemed to have fruit trees. Unfortunately alot of them also seemed to have Alsatians! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0742Sheff Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 I grew up at a time where you left the house at 8 in the morning and didn't get home until tea time. If you didn't scromp, you went hungry. It was part and parcel of everyday life for us. We knew where every apple, pear and plum tree was on the estate. We knew who had grapes growing in their greenhouses and who had the best strawberries, gooseberries, raspberries and rhubarb patches. We even ate those berries off the trees in City Rd cemetery when they were ripe. Happy days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soft ayperth Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 When the Stradbroke estate was first built in 1951, there was an apple orchard where the Stradbroke school was later built. We'd climb up the trees and fill our sweaters with apples. We suffered for it because we didn't wait until they were ripe and I don't think they were eating apples anyway. Plenty of trips to the bog afterwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40summat Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 There was a great orchard at Aston with apples and pears. We used to tuck our jumpers into the top of our trousers and fill our jumpers up, it did make climbing back over the 6' wall a bit difficult but it was worth the effort. The pears were huge and juicy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old tup Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 As kids it was one of our main pastimes in the summer,many,s the time i,ve been caught up a tree by an angry old sod who didn,t see the funny side,after a 20minute standoff I would make my break for freedom with varying degrees of success.To put the shoe on the other foot we had a small orchard at home which my little bro and I patrolled to keep the thieving little scroats out of,bloody scrumping little pests!.:hihi: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legs 49 Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 I used to go scrumping on the Shiregreen estate in the late 50's early 60's, there were orchards at the bottom of Sicey Avenue on the left hand side, got caught a few times but still went back for more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joiner andy Posted October 13, 2011 Author Share Posted October 13, 2011 great replies!. reckon my main scromp was behind the dr's on herries rd, was a bit scarey:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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