Memories of 1930s flood back
Your picture of Admaston in the 1930s (Letters, August 25) brings back many memories. We lived in the first house on the left, then called Melbourne, from 1930 to 1935.
It was owned by the Bostocks of Admaston Hall and we paid 15 shillings a week rent.
There were three bedrooms and a boxroom (no bathroom, we used a tin bath in front of the kitchen fire). There was a well under the quarry tiled kitchen floor and a semi-rotary pump which sent water to a tank in the roof space.
Washing was done in a coal-fired boiler. The lavatory was outside.
I walked to school at Wrockwardine until 1934 and then went to Wellington Boys' High School by train from Admaston Halt. Coal-fired Sentinel lorries carrying sugar beet shook the house during the "campaign". There's more in My Kind of Town, published by Wellington Civic Society in 2002.
Who lives there now? It must be quite different.
George Evans, Wellington
