crossgates

demondrifter · Post by **demondrifter** » Tue 16 Mar, 2010 5:16 pm

sorry i was wrong i lived at number 17 not 7 , i have to say no matter what anybody could say the older houses are the best like said above in the end they did suffer from damp and needed to go but stioll to this day i miss the old place

Post by **chameleon** » Tue 16 Mar, 2010 8:55 pm

demondrifter wrote: sorry i was wrong i lived at number 17 not 7 , i have to say no matter what anybody could say the older houses are the best like said above in the end they did suffer from damp and needed to go but stioll to this day i miss the old place Would No 17 be on the left, rather than the brick cottages on the right belonging to the Hospital?

demondrifter · Post by **demondrifter** » Tue 16 Mar, 2010 9:23 pm

If you stand hospital to your right and walk up were bridle path used to be it was the houses on the left on the right was the field between hospital and crossgates school ... by any chance did you live up thier

Post by **chameleon** » Tue 16 Mar, 2010 11:09 pm

demondrifter wrote: If you stand hospital to your right and walk up were bridle path used to be it was the houses on the left on the right was the field between hospital and crossgates school ... by any chance did you live up thier That's correct, the houses on the left opposite the field were part of the Council owned estate, lower down close to the Hospital gate and the Public Health Laboratory where I worked were the substantially built brick cottages, errected with and belonging to the Hospital, taken down some time ago now.