Still scarred from those happy days!
REFERENCE the sculpture of stone to be placed at Ham Woods. Can others remember the concrete round table and seat situated along the path towards the park? We used to call it a 'fairy's table'. Also the park had a tall slide with a brass slide down, which wouldn't be left alone today!
We used to swing high on the swings and jump, hopefully to land in the woods. I recall missing it once and landing on the concrete – the scars are on my chin still! We spent many hours catching tadpoles in the ponds below the library, which is now residential.
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The new sculpture installed in Ham Woods, designed by Peter Randall-Page
Our school, Trelawney Secondary Modern, was adjacent to Ham Woods. I, and many others I'm sure, spent longer in the woods or over the cemetery wall towards Weston Mill when we should have been in school!
Happy days.
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Comments
by CharlieDodd
Wednesday, October 03 2012, 5:55PM
“Is that a nuclear blast on the sculpture?”
by Grinder
Wednesday, October 03 2012, 5:46PM
“I remember Fairy's table and was sad to see it gone after going through Ham woods last year though it's no surprise to me. Hey pogle063! OK bro' ? Give me call soon eh?”
by pogle063
Wednesday, October 03 2012, 9:05AM
“I remember well the park with its big slide, way to high for todays health and safety nerks.
Newts and tadpoles from the pond by the library - way too dangerous for todays generation might drown in 3 inches of water. There used to be a small house too back in the 1960`s at the end of the lower path down from the library leading down to the road that used to run through the middle but all traces of it are gone now it was derelict when we used to play in it.
Yep good times, spent many happy hours in the woods making dens, swings and having fun.
Pleased to see a lot of good work is going on to make the woods a pleasant place to be a lot of new paths etc, which is great.
It is a pity though that there are a few ******s who respect none of that hard work and use the place as a dirt bike track, wrecking the work that has been done.
I look forward to seeing the sclupture and to any thing else that is done to keep this little patch of England a greenand pleasant place to be.”
by mesler
Wednesday, October 03 2012, 7:28AM
“I was raised in Ham, and the the woods provided countless hours of fun. The fairy's table and the brass slide - now there's some memories, the park was always fully used, then one day it just seem to disappear. Newts and tadpoles provided an endless mess in mum's kitchen; one of the fondest memories I have is the old polish guy that used to clear up and make fires - he also made us wooden whistles. Come November 5th, we'd all be up the trees cutting off the largest branches we could find, somehow mindful that felling a tree was self defeating. The bonfire in the quarry annually brilliant, that was unless it was getting bigger than the Swilly [Cookworthy Road] one, in such an even they'd come and purloin our wood. I see the swing is still on the quarrt tree. Hey happy days, I took my 15 year old there earlier this year - it still had the same old creek / wood smell. Our sport's field [from South Trelawney School] was adjacent to Old Trelawney, that was our opportunity to look at the bigger people.
Michael Fesler [Jakarta] ex 58 Jedburgh Crescent”