Fairy Avenue

Our Town with Grant Nickalls: A sense of community

Each week, Huntsville’s own Grant Nickalls will inspire us, entertain us, make us laugh or perhaps cry, but always he will remind us why Huntsville is the best place on earth to call home.

This week in Our Town, memories of Huntsville’s Fairy Avenue, where Grant grew up.

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5 Comments

  1. david johns says:

    Great memories of Fairy Avenue also Grant, lived there 30 years. Some of my neighbors were: The Snells, Conroy, Scott’s, Allan, Hern, Nichols, Caswell, Baker, Briggs, Kellock, Shearer, Lough. All very good families. Most people walked in my early days, Mr Russel Hern walked every work day, at over 70 years of age, past our home on his way to the Tannery. Jim Millest delivering our milk with his horse and wagon. Mr Lassiter delivering our Kiln-dry wood with his horse and wagon from Muskoka Wood. A different world today.

  2. Sonja Garlick says:

    Thank you, Grant for stirring up wonderful memories for me as well, living on West Road. There are 5 houses now on my former ‘playground’ and Dad’s garden area. We too played hide and seek with the neighbours and loved our ‘safe’ neighbourhood. Parents were not afraid to let their children wander around town in those days. I walked to school and to the west end for my weekly piano lesson with Fred Wigglesworth.
    I miss seeing Chris and Don Lough where we used to play tennis on their clay court in later years.
    We are all so fortunate to have grown up in this beautiful little town!

  3. Derek and Helen Mackesy says:

    Grant,

    We were lucky enough to have had our first Huntsville home on Fairy Avenue. Your eldest sister babysat our daughters. It was a small home and we lived in every inch of it.
    We are very grateful to have raised our daughters in such an idyllic community. The memories of our girls learning to swim off of “Aunt Ag’s” dock, the epic games of “hide and seek” that the neighbourhood kids played and the girls bringing home armfuls of lupins from the vacant lot on Lake Drive, still elicit smile. Thank you for reminding us.

  4. Ellen Duncan says:

    Sad but true. Thanks Grant.

  5. Michael A.Stickland says:

    Very nice Grant.