Mel wrote:
I have received the following query by email.
Where is Ogglety-Gogglety ? Is it also know by another name? and where
did wallshaw lane originally lead to? why is it called wallshaw lane
Now I know I have heard of the Ogglety-Gogglety and I think it is steps but I do not know where.
Can anyone help please?
Walshaw Lane started at it’s junction with Briercliffe Rd next to what is now known as Saxafield House, from there it ran all the way down through Walshaw Farm and ended on Eastern Avenue, it was the lane which ran to the left at the top of the road going up to Walshaw School.
As a youngster back in the 1960’s I lived and worked on Walshaw farm with the two owners Fred & Molly Little, both where great characters, Fred not a small man with his clogs, thick leather belt and that pipe. Molly was a wonderful lady and made the best eggs & bacon breakfast imaginable.
I always remember in the garden of the old farm house were several very old graves.
Fred and Molly had a daughter Janet and sons Simpson, David, Maurice, Raymond and Geoff, Geoff emigrated to Canada back in the early 1970’s.
Long before the new St James School or the Drury Housing estate behind it was built, I remember sledging down the daisy fields which started where St James is now and went almost all the way to Walshaw farm.
Just outside the farm yard was a foot path which ran down to the old wooden bridge in the Netherwoods.
Good memories of a time long gone now.