Messing about on the lake
“It was lovely to spend time on the lake with my now husband.” Shirley Short
“I used to go on Saturdays with my friend Ernest Jones from Harriseahead and he used to scare the life out of me by rocking it! Good days.” Jill Hunt “I remember they had boats on Tunstall Park lake in the sixties. I attended William Southern in Chell, which is now called Margaret Ward. At lunchtime we would hire a boat and row to the middle of the lake and have a crafty fag – happy days.” Tony Smith
“I spent hours on them in Hanley Park. I remember the call well: ‘Come in No 2’. Brilliant times.” Barbara Tipton
“I spent a lot of my youth in Hanley Park with my mum, God bless her. We always had a bunch of my friends in tow wherever we went. I loved the boats.” Helena Charlesworth
“I remember the boating lake and the paddling pool in Hanley Park.” Gayle Jessiman
“When we went there we had a rhyme we recited: ‘Please keep of the grass, to let the lady pass, the only remark in Hanley park was please keep of the grass’. It was always said in a very posh voice.” Doreen Colerick
“I remember these boats well, also on a Sunday the model boats that used to be by the boathouse.” Janet Williams
“I remember the boats in Tunstall Park. My nan used to take me on them.” Sandra Johnson
“I loved the fishing 52 years ago.” Eddie Broadhurst