Kings Road, 2010

“Does anyone remember the bookies in Kings Road, operating outside the law, long before betting shops were legalised ?”

“Yes I remember the bookies, they always had a bloke leaning on the fence outside,pretending to read the paper, when he saw a copper we was all locked away in the shed on the pathway till they were gone.”

“… My mom Francis Jones, and Gran Gladys Jones often had threepenny bet and I , as a small child would take the bet down and put it in the hand of the man standing outside the bookies.”

“Hello Gwen,yes my Mother,Nellie`Helen`Smith … used that bookie`s, only sixpenny doubles,as I remember.but was always delighted when she won even a small amount.Then she used the bookie up by the co op.”

“My Mums family, the Jones’, lived on the “mound” just before the pub. They were Lilian and Richard Jones (Lil and Dick) and their 12 children. My Mum was Betty, who was born in 1931. The family lived there until the 1980’s …”