Hi Ged and Samp,
Found a couple of personal pics of my childhood in Rossy.
1st pic shows me and my younger brother on a sunny day on the back of my dad's lorry which was partially to blame for the window ledges condition (see pic 3). Brickwork to the left is our house then the house next door. Third house is a bombed house.The fancy barriers are to deter us from gaining access to the bombed house.Then there is Joey Charnock's house with trees showing, and the final house on the block where a man called Len lived with his wife. Looking into the distance there are other buildings of the same era so this pic was taken before the high rises were built. Pic could be 1954-55. Samp's first pic shows a view from the front of these final three houses
2nd pic is Joey Charnock who lived three doors away (his house had a garden!). He's standing in the doorway of St Peter's School yard with the upper railed yard behind him. The newly built high rise flats are visible in the background.
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3rd pic is taken at 79/81 Roscommon St where we lived. next to Rossy School. The window ledge has taken a bit of a hammering (explained in pic1).
Cheers,
Chas
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