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3 of our children + 1 in-law + 1 grandson + 2 great grandsons present during the game I was watching, and naturally tearing myself away from it to discuss what Pokermon levels and creatures/animals/strange named beasts had been found. The OH didn't help by continually walking in front of me with hot drinks and lumps of her vegan cakes. Naturally I was more interested in Pokermon - watched the last 30mins on the recorded match at lunch time today.

Eggs and Canny - that arched doorway looks about in the right position for access to the Priest's home; I do recall it being almost opposite to the Police Station 'backyard' entrance. As I said earlier my Dad was friends with the boss Monk and had rented some land from the Church at the end of Catholic Row to erect a garage, this would have been the late 1950s to early 1960s. The bit of land was beyond all the buildings (there appears to be a car park there now according to Google Street View) and was bounded by Catholic Row on one side and a very high sandstone wall at the back … the famous orchard was on the other side of this wall. This garage was a sectional/modular steel frame/asbestos sheet construction that I helped my Dad to erect on the site – asbestos!!!; he bought it via an advert in Exchange and Mart*. Anyway, we would often walk along Catholic Row to the garage to get the car out and would meet the boss Monk; on a couple of occasions I accompanied my ‘old man’ into the Manse when they’d have a dram and I’d be offered a dandelion and burdock drink, so I have a clear memory of this local geography (in addition to orchard commando raids). The Manse was a building behind that one with the door and access was through that building (it was a large hall); I recall the Priest’s house was quite a large, red brick building – quite grand really! Anyway, my clear recollection of Catholic Row was of a dark and gloomy road with the church buildings forming an unbroken row of dirty cement rendered buildings – there was no gap (where the present church is) as this is the place where the ‘old’ church was. I’ve attached a very grainy snip of an aerial photo which, if you squint, you can make out the boss Monk’s house, etc. Obviously, all that original cement render must have been replaced with the pebbledash when the new church was built and the other church buildings renovated. * for our younger viewers the Exchange and Mart was a weekly national for sale listing publication ... a bit like Amazon but with grubby newsprint.