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Beke Hall Rawreth
Please see my Rayleigh message. I am looking for any and all history on the above building situated at the bottom of the London Road Rayleigh but it came under Rawreth until fairly recent history. It once had 180 acres and was 1 of 5 manors including Rawreth Hall, Chichester Hall, Tryndehayes, Beeches etc. It owned much of lower Rayleigh and I am desperate to know its history as it has been there since at least 1523. \%00 years - there must be some stories out there from the sixties or wartime. Please please help, many thx Andrea
Living There
I was born in Rettendon in 1938. My father (Ernest James Hazell) and mother ( Ellen Wiseman) were both born in the village as were my maternal grandmother and great grandmother.
As a child I remember watching aircraft flying home from bombing raids in Germany with holes in and engines smoking. I remember the V2 that fell in the village and the incendiary raids on Rettendon Place farm that caused the haystacks to burn for days.
I remember the Scottish Regiment staying in Rettendon Hall, and marching down the main road with the pipes skirling. The hill beside Rettendon Hall was hollowed out in the early part of the war to facilitate the building of an underground field hospital to accomodate casualties from an invasion or from continental warfare. As far as I know it was never actually used, and lads from the village would go in and out to play after the war till the entrances were concreted over or were blown up.
I remember dances in... Read more
1942-1949
I was born at Danbury Palace in Danbury and lived at Marks Farm bungalow in Rettendon. I remember getting frightened of the storms on the way home from Rettendon School. I remember walking home from school up Chalk Street. My Grandmother used to live in Chalk Street but her and Auntie Ruth emigrated to New Zealand during the war we think. We are not sure yet as we want to find out the year and the boat they went on. My Auntie Rachel emigrated in 1920 and met her husband on the boat out to New Zealand. I have found where all my relatives are buried now in New Zealand. It took a long time.
I used to be farmed out as we put it while Mum coped on her own as far as I can remember with the rest of the family. I had two brothers and two sisters.
I used to torment the chickens on Marks Farm. I used to run wild with my brother. I... Read more
Mill House, Rettendon
This house I lived in when I was young, from 1933 untill 1954, but I now live in Devon near Exeter. I went to Rettendon School, and then to Wickford Senior School. Everybody knew me as Jerry Smith, it was a nickname, I used to go about with a local agricultural contractor, Mr Ranson who lives at Hillberry, in the village of East Hanningfield, he had bulldozers and tractors and did a lot of work for farmers.
Poplars Farm
I would like to ask if anyone knows of Poplars Farm and its use during the Second World War as a training camp for the war, as my dad started his training there. I am trying to get photos and memories of all my dad's camps, and this is one of them. His name was Sapper Gordon Redman.
Vicki.
Bats/Snow
I lived in a caravan park in Hullbridge 60-64. My memories are of bats that swooped after dark and the year it snowed so bad that the gas froze in the bottles. It started Boxing Day and went on until Easter and we had to leave the van and live with family.
Aylwin A Finch
My parents knew a local artist of this name who lived at a place called Windmill in Hullbridge. I was only 4 but got the impression that he lived in the tree in the garden of his mother's house and she kept goats. He always wore an long old tweed coat and painted a couple of pictures of me - one in pastels and one in oils which I still have. I would be very interested to hear if anyone else remembers him?
