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"WATERMANS PARK" |
there was no more dirt in our eye's and the old gas works had long gone and in it place is
a nice park called Waterman's with swings and shrubs that are coming into bloom we took
some bread to fed the ducks but did not see many duck's but we did see a Heron. I looked
across the water and I could remember so well of my late dad working on the barges he
was a barge builder and some evening's when he was working late my mum would take a
few meat sandwiches and a flask of hot tea and we would go and sit on the banks of the
river while my dad would eat his sandwiches. It was so lovely in the summer evenings
looking across the river at the barges and steamer's going along the water (The colour
painted on the barges and steamers reminded me of the colour's in our kitchen and dineing
room at home and then the penny dropped it was the paint that was left over from panting
the barges that my dad had brought home to paint our house as we did not have much
money to spend it on paint). The late sun of the day would shine on the water and the
water would gleam some nights you could see the red sun set in the sky just like a glow
in the fire grate on a winter night Mum always said that it was going to be a fine sunny
day tomorrow and she was always right. Some Saturday's I would meet my dad when he
had finished work and he would take me to the old Ice cream shop called Jafrate in Albany
Road where he would buy myself my mum and Pearl a nice big vanilla ice cream cornet
that was light and creamy that tasted so nice and a taste that I am sorry to say I haven't
tasted a ice cream so nice ever since how I often wish that I had got that recipe from Mr
Jafrate. Looking back I really did have a happy childhood it was a simple life but I was
very happy living in Brentford at that time a lot of my spare time in my summer school
holidays was spent as well as Carville Hall Park was in the old orchard at the bottom
of Somerset road picking the fruit trees in there with my friend's if only my mother had
known then what I was up to she would have had a fit and not been so happy or enjoyed
the apples or pears that I had brought home to her to eat she used to say they taste
nice better then you buy in the shop. I used to rip my dress or trousers climbing the trees
but I never let on to my secret until today.
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