Like the- no the frame- the- the foundation was built and then there was this like gully in between and I fell down in between and I fell down in there so they had to come and get me out and I was always getting in trouble and, ah- but then we used to have all these kids on the street and we used to play road- hockey a lot and, um, hide-and-seek and tag and...

Ah, well yeah we've had the flood here, but really doesn't affect us here we- like this- whole gully down in here it'll fill full o' water once it floods up in the spring but. We're actually pretty fortunate that way. It really doesn't affect us.

Speaker: We used to slide a lot there. That used to be a gr-- great big gully at one time. It's been all filled. Yeah. Interviewer: I was going to say, it was like- I'm thinking about it now. I'm like, "Where would you go sliding? I don't understand." Speaker: (laughs) Yeah, that used to be a gully.

And- so you just ran and- and played the whole time for recess and lunch and also too, in the winter time there was the gully.

But yeah, that was the big thing in the winter time was- was- was playing in the gully going sliding and summer time and- and spring or spring and fall it was playground.

Mm-hm, so there was all ages just sliding all winter long in the gully.

That's where you went for recess, lunch and afternoon recess was the gully and go sliding.

And, ah- in some cases, ah, th-- because the- the north- the terrain is up and down and all over, they would build a bridge in order to carry the- the wooden pipe o-- over maybe a gully or-something. And ah, occasionally- like, some of the mines had started to close down. Some mines were closed down, even when I was a kid.

Ah, well like there's about four, five of us that were all like there at the time, and I remember like trash-and-treasure. We'd go around and like collect stuff every year and we'd have like this little kind of place in the- like there's a little gully by our house and we collected it there (laughs).

Speaker: And we look and we can hear like these little claws like on the road and we like look over and there's this bear standing there on the road and were like in the middle of our lot, so we just kind of like crept into the corner of like- our two houses are really close, so we crept into the corner of his and it's still looking at us and we just jumped the fence, like (laughs)- Interviewer: You did? Speaker: Yeah we were sitting on the fence and we called our parents and yeah. And then my dad came out and he was just watching it for a bit and all the neighbours were just watching it and then it just ran back into the gully.

Speaker: Hide-and-Seek, we used to have massive Hide-and-Seek games- Interviewer: Really? Speaker: 'Cause we got a little gully by our house and we'd invite like fifteen, twenty people over and play Hide-and-Seek...

Speaker: Well we played ball and then when ah- we used to just (inc) made up our own games. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: (inc) There used to be a little gully there.

Speaker: Well Bl-- Blakeney-School, you-know where ah, you know where Herb-McFern lives? Interviewer: Ah, yes. Speaker: Well the gully, there's a brick building there?

And we used to have um, down on Victoria-Street, there was ah a d-- like a gully, you go it's on- on- on the left hand side and you could go down there with a forest where the river was.