Buried alive in the sand pit

I can remember the barracks just after the war, the yard along the side had many trailers with radar tracking disc’s on top. I think the T A that was there was Royal Artillery.At the side of Goodway road was Ropers hill, who was Roper? Further over Greenholme road-Aldridge road was a rubbish tip, a mail sorting center was built on it when it was full up. When we were kids we used to go scavenging on this tip and our first bikes were made up of bits we found there. The bikes were called A S Ps (all spare parts). Next to the barracks was more waste land further in was a sand pit. I was buried alive here one day when the sand face collapsed my mates dragged me out and took me to the dispensary at the top of Dyas road. I escaped with a broken wrist and leg. The waste land was also used as a shallow tip, I can remember digging up spent 303 bullet cases. We also found the odd live one, we prised off the tip and set fire to the cordite that was inside, luckily I still have all my fingers. There was a fair held on this land fairly regularly. Later a government office was built on the site. I remember Dunedin road, a few roads in that area were named after places in New Zealand. Back to the sandpit I used to go there to collect clay for the girls who lived next door, they used to wet it and put it on their legs to look like stockings which were hard to come by in those times. they would then go dancing at Christ The King Friday night dance I can remember this was not a good place to go when the teddy boys were present, there were many fights.