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Maurice Redman
My uncle Maurice Redman built his own boathouse where he lived which was at Fenn Creek and he taught sailing. I remember going down there when I was a kid. He was a member of the village hall and designed the sports pavilion. Does anyone remember him? He sadly died in 1973 of a heart attack. He lived there all his adult life and was a well known character. I was sad to see his house was bulldozed to make way for the new developments. I would be interested to hear from anyone who knew him. Vic
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.
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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.
Happy Memories
I remember the Griffin Hotel as the Griffin PH, when as a student nurse I visited it with my elderly grandmother Minnie Grainge on days away from London. She was so proud to be escorted by her eldest granddaughter and as a local woman whose family had come from Woodham Walter was acknowleged by so many as she walked through the door. Our lunchtime treat was the most delicious prawn sandwiches. Is it as lovely now I wonder?
Harrow Farm
My grand x3 grandfather James Sewell lived at Harrow Farm, he worked as a farm labourer. There was land named Sewells land which was auction by the Boggis estates and sold in 1914. Another ancestor, James, was a publican and wife Emily worked at the 'Leather Bottle' pub on the Downham Road. I have ancesters buried in St Peter's churchyard and also married at Downham. I wonder if anyone knows what happened to the land, farm or pub?
