FAMOUS CHILDHOODS 7

Sir Terry Pratchett, author

My favourite play area was – it still IS – called Roundhead Wood, although it has fewer trees and more barbed wire now. And here four or five of us roared around like some screaming, multi-legged animal, building camps, riding bikes around the little chalk pit in the middle and growing up a little bit more everyday.

Extract taken from Playground Memories, edited by Nick Gammage