Road, Caerleon Road and St Julian’s area after the war. We played cricket across the main Caerleon Road with the stumps chalked onto the wall of St Julian’s Methodist Church.
We splashed up the dingle, blocking the stream, climbing trees and scrumping apples (we called it nobbing). We wandered free around the Brickyard Pond, the Iron Bridge and the banks of the Usk.
I distinctly remember the fuselage of a fighter plane, dumped below the back of St Julian’s High School, just about where the M4 now goes under the Caerleon Road.
It may have been there for a short while. My brother does not recall it, or my cousin who lived close by. This would probably be around 1947/48.
Does anybody else remember it? It would be nice to know it is not just a dream.
Cedric Gibbons
Dixton Close Monmouth
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