Bruce Michael Baillie:

My mum and all my aunts and uncles were born in what was a row of cottages at the top of Old Popplewell Lane, between the farm and the mill (owned by my Great Uncle John Willie and Great Aunt Edith Priestley, and where all my aunties worked on the looms from about the age of 14). The farm, mill and cottages were later demolished and replaced by Cold Drawn Products...big ugly blue building that I could see from my bedroom window on Brookfields Road, just across the fields, where I lived for the first 18 years of my life.