People   (Re-unions, trace old friends and relatives.)

Tommy:

Don't want to sound pedantic, but the original Magistrates Court were in the same building as the Police Station and other government offices on King Street, which is still an extension of Darlington Street.

John B:

You wanted stories.

Mark Williams had a butcher shop on Standishgate, then there was a little alleyway then a couple more shops, one of which became the first McDonald's in the mid-60s, but had originally been a Chemists.

Mark Williams' slaughter house was at the bottom of Marsh Lane where we moved to after Darlington Street. The trucks which brought the cattle was heart-breaking, but one day, a cow got loose and started running up and down the street. It then ran into our next door neighbour's house and ran up her stairs. She was a little old Welsh woman and she chased after it.

The poor thing was terrified and ran back out into the street, but by then, one of the slaughter-men had saddled up a horse and threw a noose over its neck and roped it in.

I swear that's a true story which I saw with my own eyes. Some will find that amusing, which I suppose it is, but I was horrified as I was only about 10 years old at the time.