Only lived there two years but loved it (Old Meadows, Beauvale Road.) This song is a complete misrepresentation. Our neighbours were great. We were sorry to leave in search of work. It was the best place we ever lived 'cept for the atmospheric pollution from the Trent Valley power stations, especially in damp claggy weather. A special shout out to George F who was devoted to our young Deborah as she was to him, age three. Tune is OK but the lyrics are as they say these days 'fake news'!

Hey Wayne I think one of your pics was taken by me around 1975! I took many colour slides of demolision in progress and gave the lot (digitally scanned) to a website that documented The Meadows history If you're interested I will search for them Best wishes from Cape Town

They were the days

Born & Bred on Goodhead St!

@markdnffc

2 ай бұрын

Me too! Chester Terrace...

Loved the meadows Kings meadow road

The rush to knock it down was not the problem it was to knock the lot down as quickly as possible so that whole neighbourhoods were destroyed and spread all over the city, people who had lived together for generations were ripped apart. A community is its people. We never recovered, a classic example of everyone knows best except the people who live there.

@gjgrinham

3 ай бұрын

My mum was a 'Medders' girl. I was born at 23 Atlas Terrace in 1970. We were rehoused a few years later to Aspley. I don't think she ever got over being ripped away from her home and community.