Faith Ryan remembers her childhood

Yeah, yeah. And, erm, and also, erm, playing a lot in the grove, which is interesting; when I look at that grove now you couldn’t play in it because there are so many cars. There were no cars, no-one owned a car. And, er, so we’d do all sorts – we’d play, erm, rugby, cricket, races, kerbies, yeah, where you throw a ball and hit the… the kerb opposite. I was the champion kerb queen. Erm, and we would just… and then I can remember we, my family, we had to come in early and I can remember sitting in the bedroom window and talking to kids who were still out playing on the street. Erm, there were always loads of kids around, always loads of kids. And dogs, you used to get packs of dogs [chuckles].

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