Where did you go to play outdoors, growing up in Sheffield?

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00:00Tell me where you used to like going to play outdoors yourself when you were growing up?

00:04Yeah, we went down to Enkless Park, that was near enough, that was probably the

00:07space that we had and even as a kid that was really nice, that was a nice kind of area and

00:12they've updated it you know even more since, I think it's probably gone through about three or

00:15four iterations but yeah that was really nice as a space, you've got big green spaces there as well,

00:20big flat green spaces I think is important in Sheffield, you know you can't play football on

00:25a hill but you can try but yeah that was that was my favourite space as a kid.

00:32Could you tell me what you used to like to play when you were growing up in Sheffield?

00:35Well I was brought up at Lodgemore so we used to have the luxury of playing out on an area

00:39called The Cracks above the Riverland Valley so that was great, we were always out there

00:45pretty much out on the moors for most of the day, it was great.

00:49Could you tell me what you used to like to go to play when you were in Sheffield growing up?

00:53Well I went to Graves Park and the lounges, they were fine, they were brilliant, yeah.

01:02Tell me where you used to like to play in Sheffield when you were growing up?

01:05I was very fortunate that there were many places for me to play you know as I was younger,

01:10you know there was the woods at the top of the road, there was a park, we were never far away

01:14from a football pitch and you just literally play in the street and with your friends on your bikes.

01:20Whereabouts in Sheffield was that?

01:22Eccleshall.

01:24Where did you used to enjoy going to play yourself when you were growing up in Sheffield?

01:29We used to go, where I live, there was a place called Brook, the bottom of Shire Green,

01:37which we've got a little river and it were nice and a little old stone bridge which is not there

01:43now which is people's pinch stone, nice. Then we used to play in groups, cricket, football,

01:54in Concord Park every weekend and practically every day during six weeks holidays. We used to go to

02:03Chief's Alley Bath, that's not there now,

02:12Eccleshield Fishing Pond, that's behind all that's not there, Eccleshield Workingmen's Club

02:21and then we used to just play on the street and like hide and seek and all that when we were kids.