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First you knocked in two stout nails close together about waist height. Climbing on to this initial perch, you worked your way up the tree hammering nails for steps as you progressed.
Conquering a tree was a challenge. The true enthusiast clambered up the trunk skilfully but we preferred a hammer and pocket full of nails.
Once you reached the fork of the tree, you could escape from reality and relax with plenty to see.
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In winter they were cold and unwelcoming but in summer their leaves and boughs hid you in a warm embrace.
I have many fond memories of a large tree at West Derby Tennis
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Club, near where Winterburn Crescent was later built. The tree is pictured (centre) when we were having a kick around in May 1962. By this time it was forlorn after someone set fire to the trunk, leaving it unsafe. Afew years earlier this had been an Eden rather than waste land. Spreading beyond the tree was a small holding known as Old Joe Johnson’s. Many types of fruit and vegetables were grown and I particularly remember large juicy tomatoes growing up canes. Three or four of us would climb the tree – it may have been an ash or a poplar. It was strangely soothing if there was a breeze as the trunk and branches creaked as they gently swayed. It was only by climbing a large tree that I fully understood its nature as a living thing. We would straddle boughs before returning to ground level. The easiest way was to carefully drop
from the lowest branch. My friend had cherry trees in his garden but climbing them was not the same. There was nowhere to sit and, because they were nearer the houses, they were blackened with soot. Everything was in those days, as countless coal fires burned day and night before we had to go smokeless about 1968. Some older boys had a gang and one day we were invited to visit their tree den. It was cunningly hidden in hawthorn bushes alongside the ditch bordering West Derby Hockey Club. This was different from other tree climbing – you had to scramble through thorny foliage to reach a crude platform made from scraps of wood. • Join the West Derby Society at its next meeting 7.30 pm on Wednesday 21 May at Lowlands, 13 Haymans Green, Liverpool L12 7JG.
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