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This is the entrance to Hallow Tree scout camp site now locked and forbidding whereas it used to be a place of absolute wonder and freedom when I was a kid. It was the place we escaped from parents and adults and it had two entrances that were always open. Here we could do just as we wanted and we would stay here for weeks on end during the summer and some lads even lived here in the winter too and still done a paper round. It was the formative place of many lads lives where we learned to look after ourselves and each other and never a police man being troubled either. Now when there is a camp there are more adults than children present. Count me out if I was a kid now.

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