Children of the Lanes

David M Howlett of Shawford, Winchester, Hampshire remembers:

We were children of the lanes, and the lanes gave us all, asking nothing in return but the sound of our laughter.

YESTERDAY REMEMBERED

This is a tale of two lanes, each so different, but both so quintessentially English. As children, we knew one as “the Manor” and the other as “Hare Lane”. Perhaps Manor Lane lay closest to our hearts because it was the nearer of the two; lying but a...

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