Activities
We used to get a packed lunch and headed off for the manor. We would spend all day exploring the grounds.
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The estate was an exciting part of my childhood. Surrounded in local legend, it was a ruin by the time I was old enough to go visiting it with my mates and more importantly without any adult supervision.
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By the time I was in my early teens we played quite happily in the massive tree at the front by day and had some truly terrifying nights telling the ghost stories about the curse of what dreadful fate would befall everyone if the front door ruin was ever pulled down! A walk round the estate, especially up to the front door in the pitch black of a winter’s night was the ultimate test of bravado in our young minds. I laugh when I think about it now but any time we ever did it, it was always terrifying. Not one of us ever did it alone!
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