Clearly not from Sandal.

Must have been real tough only having 2 en suite bathrooms in your 6 bedroom house. My heart bleeds for you

Exactly - can you imagine having to keep that lot clean ! And that was in the days when you cleaned with soap, water and newspaper - none of your new fangled detergents and all purpose cleaning cloths.

Good to know that you at least had some empathy for the hired help below stairs.

Popular misconception that!

Street house lads used to wander round in large gangs but on their own, man for man couldn't mix it with Lupset during the 70s.

My family grew up on the cross roads of Whinney Moor and Townley, just recently when all four brothers were out on the Town someone from Spa Grove came up and thanked us.

He said the fact that we lived on the crossroads stopped the gangs from the Dewsbury Rd end of the estate from getting past and offered them protection.
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I remember you well - we were at the bottom of Broadway, just across from the beer garden of the Lupset Hotel.

For me, the Lupset experience went sour when they built the Aysgarth estate - it ruined the 'everyone knows everyone' culture and changed the complexion of the estate; it was never the same again.

When i was a nipper playing for the Manor there was always a brawl playing against Sharlston, some real epics, i had just been subbed once with about 10 mins of a game left when it kicked off and it was ferocious or so it seemed at the time, i think i was about 10 or 11 so it was probably slapsies, but Mick Riley ordered me back on the field to crack some heads even though at this point i had my jeans halfway across my boots as i was getting ready to get off home. Great days. I lived just down the rd from your parents at no. 87 i think it was if memory serves me right but not until much later and remember seeing Andy visiting and me getting a right giddy on over it on more than one occasion.

Very true, some real nasty pieces of work down there. Sister moved in there with her boyfriend at the time, only lived there a couple of years and managed to get burgled twice.

Aysgarth popularly known ad 'Happy Valley' for obvious reasons.

I kind of agree with you about it changing the character of the area.

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We lived there as a family for more than 50 years, it was a sad day when our mum sold it and moved on, almost like a bereavement. I don't live far from there now and it's still a little sad to drive by and think that someone else now lives there.

We were a family of eight and all big lads, we played every sport you can imagine in which left no blade of grass in any of the three gardens we had, it looked more like a post nuclear wasteland than a garden.

Good memories born out of hard times!