Holly Ash

Holly Ash – once a straggle of rural cottages a tram's ride from Liverpool – has been transformed, Frank Bates discovers when he returns years later as local boy made good. Now a director of Amalgamated Cables, and son-in-law of the chairman, he is shocked to see that in place of Ash Cottages, his boyhood home, rises the red and gold façade of Woolworth's, the pride of a suburban shopping arcade.

Frank's childhood had been a solitary one until, exploring one day the abandoned lake pavilion ...