Horror From Childhood.

[10ClarionSt]

I constantly remember this. It haunts me even now after nearly 60 years.

It was Good Friday. I was playing in the street opposite a pub called the Apollo on Livesey Street in Ancoats when the large window in the pub came smashing outwards. An oldish man came running out towards me being chased by a young teddy boy. He stopped only 5 yards from me and as he turned round, the teddy jumped up with both knees into the mans chest, knocked him onto his back and out cold. He lay there just a couple of yards from me when the teddy boy kicked him in the face three times then slashed both his cheeks with a razor. I ran home screaming and my parents thought something had happened to me. And I suppose it had. When my dad went round the corner to the pub, there was police everywhere. I cried for weeks and weeks thinking about that. It still haunts me to this day, realizing now that the old man could have been killed.

Childhood memories eh?

[boxtops]

Clarion, that is a traumatic thing for a child to see. Good, in a way, that you can talk about it now. Dreadful for you.

[entranced]

wow.. 10 clarionSt ....I can see why that would stay with you.How are you with it now?
Is it bothering you a lot?
did anyone else you know see this?

[Jeza]

I too have some bad memories from my childhood. Not as bad as you though clarion.

[Eve]

A fair few though not that I'd want to detail on here.

I had a horrible experience around Ancoats, ended up in club there with a group of people I knew (not the kind of place I'd ever have gone otherwise) and had my drink spiked, it took me ages to get out the club, nearly walked off a raised dancefloor though a random guy caught me in time, eventually got out, not realising there where two entrances/exits and ended up by a canal and a building site, couldn't get a taxi to pick me up as couldn't get my words out properly. Finally managed to see a main road and get back into the city centre (an hour later! Clarion should realise how mad it is it took that long). Struggled to get cash out a cash machine and get in a taxi who thankfully got me home. Remember it turning a corner and "moved" with it, ended up lying sideways on the back of the taxi and staying there as I couldn't get back up.

A horrible experience.

[josaphine32]

Jeza, I have thought about you for the past few weeks, it was something you said on a post, I think you will know which one , I can't stop thinking of what you went through, that really upset and shocked me to the core. Wrong place wrong time, but it did really affect me, even though I never met him. :(

[Jeza]

Please refresh my memory Josephine.

[Jeza]

Was it about the death of my son?

[March-Hare]

If it really still plays on your mind and bothers you often 10ClarionSt, it can be dealt with very easily ..... google EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) I have first hand experience of this after a traumatic RTA some years back- very powerful therapy which is much more widely available nowadays ..... took one session - and gone!! Or at least I can now talk about the accident without the flash backs and the bad dreams and the attached emotions are filed away.

[josaphine32]

Yes jeza, it was, sorry but did not want to put it was about your son, just can't stop thinking of it, such a waste, sorry I will stop now,