Anybody from Hackenthorpe?

[chrisgreen]

Anyone here lived on Carter Lodge Avenue from the mid 50's? I'm sure my dad (Robert Green) lived there from birth in 1950, of not his family moved there soon after as my uncle (Richard Green) was born in the house. There was also a sister (Wendy)

 

Not sure of the number (though 14 rings a bell) but it was at the opposite end to the junction with the main road (one with the shops on).

 

Sure they all would have attended Rainbow Forge too, I also remember my dad talking about a friend called Brian Humyard (think he lived on the main road on the left, down the hill from the shops just as it turns right).

Edited June 12, 2010 by chrisgreen

[deedar]

Anybody know if Pigs Lane is still there? It was a dirt track that ran from Birley Spa Lane up to Main Street, it went past the old Rainbow Forge Junior School playing fields.

[sandie]

Anybody know if Pigs Lane is still there? It was a dirt track that ran from Birley Spa Lane up to Main Street, it went past the old Rainbow Forge Junior School playing fields.

 

Pigs Lane brings back so many memories it is funny to think as a young child we could walk up and down there with no fear, oh how times have changed.

I think when Ranbow Forge was replaced with houses Pigs Lane was lost.

[nannan]

Oh, I certainly do remember playing on the roof of Cotleigh Hall. PC Disney caught me one day and threatened to tell my parents. Boy, were we scared in those days!? I too went to Hackenthorpe Village school about 1953. Then moved to Rainbow Forge Infant School, then Rainbow Forge Junior Annexe (in Carter Lodge building) because there wasn't enough room for us at Rainbow Forge School. I lived on Rainbow Avenue.

[Lostrider]

Anybody know if Pigs Lane is still there? It was a dirt track that ran from Birley Spa Lane up to Main Street, it went past the old Rainbow Forge Junior School playing fields.

 

It most certainly is still there. You can just see it on Google Earth.

 

In the old days it was used for carrying blades on wagons pulled by donkeys, from the grinding wheels at shirebrook to the factories on Main Street.

[nannan]

I know the lane that you are talking about and I can see the top of it from Main Street and the bottom of it from Birley Spa on Google Street View, but I never knew they called it Pigs Lane. Street View and Streetmap certainly don't recognise the name.

[tracysimpson]

I remember Pig's Lane, we used to walk up and down it to and from school. I left Rainbow Forge in about 1980 to go to Carter Lodge. I loved Rainbow Forge and was in Mr Vernon's class. He used to inflate pig's bladders and display them on the wall like they were a work of art. The school would be closed down today on health and safety grounds. Pig's lane was so magical. It had a little stream of water running down it from what I can remember. Oh sweet memories.

[Lostrider]

I remember Pig's Lane, we used to walk up and down it to and from school. I left Rainbow Forge in about 1980 to go to Carter Lodge. I loved Rainbow Forge and was in Mr Vernon's class. He used to inflate pig's bladders and display them on the wall like they were a work of art. The school would be closed down today on health and safety grounds. Pig's lane was so magical. It had a little stream of water running down it from what I can remember. Oh sweet memories.

 

I was at rainbow in the 1960's and I remember that little stream that ran down the middle of the lane. We used to make little dams. I remember a hut at the bottom that was used by the Hackenthorpe Gardening Club. There was a house just after it on Birley Spa Lane where a Builder called Grey lived.

[Le Baron]

We used to play up Pigs Lane in the 60's, there was a bank on the left hand side that gave us acces to Rainbow Forge school fields, we'd get thru the fence and then scrump a few pears from the back of the school, then sit at the top of the bank, seem to remember running down it and up the opposite bank. My mother was a cleaner at Rainbow and after work one evening came up Pigs Lane to bring me home, we were with a couple of lasses on the bank and fields and for some reason thought we were "manking" as she put it, maybe we were but they were fun days back then.

[Lostrider]

We used to play up Pigs Lane in the 60's, there was a bank on the left hand side that gave us acces to Rainbow Forge school fields, we'd get thru the fence and then scrump a few pears from the back of the school, then sit at the top of the bank, seem to remember running down it and up the opposite bank. My mother was a cleaner at Rainbow and after work one evening came up Pigs Lane to bring me home, we were with a couple of lasses on the bank and fields and for some reason thought we were "manking" as she put it, maybe we were but they were fun days back then.

 

I remember the hole in the fence too. We used to go up there, a big gang of us. It was very private a kind of bolt hole away from "the grown up's.

 

No one could see you on the school field. Great for a crafty fag or "manking about". I remember some of the names that used to gather. I'll not use there first names but they were: Driver, Watson, Norton ,Payne, Pixley, Whitey, Darcy, Townsends E & R, Ago, Jacko and many more I can't remember oh and me Burky. Only one to watch out for was the caretaker & the "big lads" who would rob you you of your "fags and "money" and give you good kicking. You know who you are! B**O, C*****E M***N, S******D, S****S.