Garages
We used to play a game called 'garages' here which was a variation on the game of 'havas' already published on this blog by the master. Garages was identical except you had your own garage instead of your own hava to defend. If you conceeded 3 goals on your garage you were out, and the winner was the last man standing. Note here in the photo they have knocked down the garages to the right and landscaped them. Note also that the 2 black drainpipes on the garages to the left have been encased by a metal shroud presumbably to prevent kids climbing up on top of the garage roofs. This is the case for all drainpipes at all garages on the estate now.
We always used to "find" an empty garage in which to store wood for the annual 5th November Bon Fire - by the way we burned an effigy of a Mackem football player and not Guy Fawkes - invariably the garage would get filled to over flowing with tinder dry wood and some interfering old biddy would call the fire brigade who would come round and tell us to move it all out. So..........we would move the wood to the nearby school field and wait, trying to guard the bonny wood until the big night. Always some bastard would drop his guard and the pile of painstakingly collected wood would get set on fire up by some ruffian - probably someone from Eland Close.........we woudl end up mooching around other's bonfires or even going to see the big on one the Kenton Quarry field (some times termed "the Ponderosa") near North Kenton Shops
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