A Search in Progress
Finchingfield to me, in my younger days, was a place that Dad would take Mum and me to on a Sunday afternoon drive. Never to stop for very long but it is a place that leaves a snapshot in your memory.
Being an adopted child I did not realise at the time that Finchingfield would play a large part in a search that I have been on for nearly 15 years.
Little did I know until I applied for and recived my original birth cert that "Pond View Restaurant" in Finchingfield in 1952 was the last address of my "birth mother".
I have searched records and even visited Finchingfield but to no avail to find any reference to "Pond View" Resturant or its owners at the time who I believe were my Aunts.
So...if anyone who has read this or knows someone who might remember way back then please, I would love to hear from you. The smallest piece of information just might be the key that unlocks a door for me.
I thank you for your time.
UPDATE
I have since found out that No 2? the Causeway is/was known as Pond view Cottage and in turn called the "Causeway Tea Cottage" So that is one question answerd Now all i need to find out is who run it back in 1952 ............?
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Hi, My aunt and uncle Rose and George Shakespeare had the pub called The Finch Inn just up the hill from the duck pond, does anyone remember them? George has since died and Rose lives now in Buckhurst Hill. George used to ride around on a motorised wheelchair, they had it in the 1980s, also a friend of mine had the Fox many years ago, she has two sons, Paul and Mark, her name was Maggie or Margaret.
Comment from Patricia Hamilton on Monday, 22nd August 2011.