Moor House in the 1950s and 1960s: Difference between revisions

 

George and Tina already had a baby son, Damian, and in 1951 daughter, Jane, was born in the house. Nine years later in 1960 a third child, Susan, arrived to complete the family.

The garden was large with a rockery on the side adjacent to Hoole Road Fire Station. A lawned area to the rear, with a brick-built sandpit, was separated from blackcurrant bushes and fruit trees by a hedge of rhododendrons. The expansive area of land to the rear of the lawn, which led as far back as Pickering Street, was sold for the development of flats in 1962.

 

 

One couple from America introduced root beer to the family and another (a retired Army major and his wife) treated the Kimpton children to days out at the seaside in their Morris Minor Traveler and provided outstanding displays of fireworks on Bonfire Night that could be seen all over Hoole. One never-to-be-forgotten box of pyrotechnics went off in a blaze of exploding lights before releasing tiny toys parachutists floating down from the night sky.

The Kimptons and Newports were animal lovers who had a menagerie of birds and pet animals including white doves, chickens, and ducks as well as a steady stream of dogs, cats and budgerigars.