When we were kids growing up in Whitelea Road we almost had Narnia at the bottom of our garden, or so it seemed at the time. We had our very own twitten!
We'd spend hours chopping nettles, digging holes or selling soil to people whose gardens backed on to the twitten. 6d a bucket full. We even once started to build a miniature railway along it, with wooden rails and no idea what we'd run on it!
Many years later (on 4 November 1984) I found myself back there. Not a lot had changed though it all seemed much smaller than I'd remembered it!
All gone now though - the house owners have bit by bit reclaimed the twitten and incorporated it into their back gardens - depriving Whitelea's kids of hours of fun!
