EVELYN AVENUE
Good Friday Skipping c1980
By Marilyn Nolan
When we lived in Murray Avenue (1969 - 1985) we always joined in with the Evelyn Avenue celebrations. I remember at a meeting to discuss the arrangements leading up to one Good Friday celebration I somehow or other managed to volunteer myself for making 200 hot cross buns for the day! I made the dough the night before in my baby bath, being the largest thing I had and left it to rise overnight. The next day I knocked the dough back and put the buns on baking trays and piped paste crosses on them. 15 neighbours came and collected a tray each and baked them in their ovens then took them over to Edna Moore's house in Evelyn Avenue where they were glazed and split and buttered. Even though I say it myself, they were delicious. Recipe available if you want it!
What made it even more memorable was the fact that on the Good Friday we were having double glazed windows fitted in our house, the only time that they could do it! Good job I was younger and fitter then, I don't think I could cope with it now!