K R Miller's letter of last week brought back a memory or two.
I believe Hillside Farm was near to or on the site of Portway School and Maisie (Maidee) Deanes' donkey, what a character, used to parade along Salisbury Road and Millway Road possibly pulling the milk float from the Hillside Dairy.
My late mother used to regale friends and acquaintances with a never to be forgotten tale about this little three-year-old tot in the late 1940s who was sat on his trike one day, in a world of his own, and dreaming of becoming of a wild west cowboy.
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Behind him, and quietly, Edward the donkey put his old grey head over our garden gate and yes, let out an unholy bellow of Hee Haw'.
This sudden deafening noise so startled the little tot that he fell off the trike, hit his head on the rough concrete path, and I have to admit that I've never been right since!
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