SKETCH BOOK
Sketches by C Shutler of
Westbourne ©
WESTBOURNE
A village history in West Sussex
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Just down the road from home at Rosebank is Paradise Lane a favourite place to play of an evening. At the bottom of the lane was a large wallnut tree, perhaps it is still there. Across the main road was a large meadow, now full of houses, where we played hide and seek with a difference. It was called Kick Can. The object was to place the can in the road, a car was rare in those days. One person would guard the can while the rest of us would hide and he/she would then come to find us. If one of us could run back and kick the can before the guard he had lost and had to try again. It was one of the simple pleasures of those days like climbing trees and playing conkers.
