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Broadway Revisited!
I first set foot in Broadway in March 1964. I was a scared young Danish girl visiting my boyfriend's family for the first time, they were Herbert and Joyce Milner who lived at 'Wormington Brake' on the road to Wormington. I loved the village, then a quiet, cosy place with old fashioned values. There was a shop for everything; I especially liked the little bookshop next to what used to be The Midland Bank. It was a very different time, and as my first experience of England, Broadway made me fall even more in love with Peter. Alas, he is no more, after 40 lovely years, he passed away, but looking at the pictures from 1960, I can still see us walking along, so young and happy.
Growing up in Broadway
I was raised in Broadway during the 1920s and 1930s. I had an idyllic childhood with freedom to explore the surrounding countryside including free access to the tower. I went to the village school and was in the church choir. Part of my job as choirboy was to walk alongside the wooden bier carrying coffins at funerals, particularly those of children who had died. It made me feel terribly unhappy.
Sadly, we moved away when I was about 12 to live in London. I always dreamed of retiring to Broadway and this wish came true when in the 1970s I bought a B&B and ran it with my wife. We had a great time and I got to re-unite with friends who had never left the village from 50 years before!
I still visit Broadway, it's beautiful - and smells sweeter - we didn't have so many cars back in the 1920s, just horses and lots and lots of horse dung down the high street! I've written all my... Read more
Idyllic Childhood
I lived in Childswickham from 1944 -1955 and as far as I am concerned it was the best place on earth. We had our own school, post office, shop and garage. Everyone knew everyone else and as children we had complete and utter freedom to go and do whatever we liked with no worries for us or our parents. We always had a Christmas party at the village hall (which had an outside toilet with 3 holes) and I saw my first ever picture show there, which was Donald Pleasance in 'Never Take Sweets From a Stranger', this was magic for me as we had no electricity at home, only oil lamps. Our milk was delivered on a cart by Mr Rose and ladled out into a jug for us (no bottles).
I remember the Coronation in 1953, the whole village joined in the celebrations.
One of the bigest excitements for us children was the building of the swimming pool at Leedons caravan park which Mr Parry alowed... Read more
Hamgreen
From 1933 to 1939 I lived at Hamgreen Farm, then we moved to Lighthorne, Warwickshire two days before war was declared. In 1948 April the first I sailed for Canada, 60 years ago. If you have a book or info on the Wormington family I would be very interested in purchasing, we are a very old family, we have traced to the 13th century, you could possibly have some info.
Hampton Ferry, Memories
First placed here by the monks of Evesham Abbey in the thirteenth century to enable them to tend the vineyard that they planted on Clarkes Hill, the original use of the cottage was a wine store. Their system of pulling the ferry rope between two stauntions to get across the river is still used to this very day, in spite of mechanical devices being experimented with, nothing is as easy or secure as the monks original method. The Huxley family moved into the Ferry house in 1929 and their descendants still run the Ferry.
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