What a wonderful road, lined with horse chestnut trees. When my older brother, Michael, and i were little, about 1960/61 when we were 7 and 10 we collected around 500 conkers in one outing and took them all home to 20 Grange Road. We filled a basket and our pockets, and Michael even put them down his wellington boots. Goodness knows why we did it. We put them in a pile halfway down the garden and several of them sprouted and grew. Our father gave one to St Mary Magdelene church and it flourished…and looking at Grange Road on google aerial maps a few years ago we also saw what looks like a survivor in the garden at Grange Road. We also loved Northumberland Road for its wonderful fungi – so many kinds, and in particular the boletus genus in which the underneath appears spongey rather than having the long flat gills of mushrooms and many other fungi.
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What a wonderful road, lined with horse chestnut trees. When my older brother, Michael, and i were little, about 1960/61 when we were 7 and 10 we collected around 500 conkers in one outing and took them all home to 20 Grange Road. We filled a basket and our pockets, and Michael even put them down his wellington boots. Goodness knows why we did it. We put them in a pile halfway down the garden and several of them sprouted and grew. Our father gave one to St Mary Magdelene church and it flourished…and looking at Grange Road on google aerial maps a few years ago we also saw what looks like a survivor in the garden at Grange Road. We also loved Northumberland Road for its wonderful fungi – so many kinds, and in particular the boletus genus in which the underneath appears spongey rather than having the long flat gills of mushrooms and many other fungi.
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