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Bariff's Farm
My Great Grandfather, George Collyer, farmed at Bariff's Farm, Mountnessing in the 1870's and early 1880's. He farmed 40 acres with his son Richard and a boy. Does anyone know the location of Bariff's Farm?
Mountnessing School
I was at school in the 1940s. I remember a teacher there, I believe he was a Mr Davis. I remember the annual sports, these were held on a field just a short walk from the school. The days of the great snow fall in 1947, living at Padhams Green it was a mile walk down to the village and the snow filled the road from bank to bank and we had to walk along in a field (I think I skipped school that day). I also was in the church choir, I think until I left school in 1953. We used to have some happy times in the summer going to see Mr Tom Morgan at his little shop, buying sweets and drinks (non alcoholic). I now live in Birmingham and have done for the past almost 50 years but take regular trips down to Mountnessing.
Evacuated to Mountnessing
During the Blitz, my mother, Gladys Lane and her sister Rose were evacuated from Chadwell Heath to Mountnessing where they stayed at a house called St Leonards. This is the house next to the school, for they stayed with Mr Walter Reed, who was the Headmaster there for many years (he used to boast he had never been off for a single day!). His wife was called Myra and she appears to have been a lively member of village life. The Reeds were second cousins of my grandmother, nee Rose Reed, and other members of the family lived in Barking and Rayleigh. Neither Gladys nor Rose Lane attended Mountnessing School as at the outbreak of war my mother had passed her 11 plus to Romford County High. I believe she used to cycle from Mountnessing to Romford and once on the journey heard a V1 'doodlebug' rocket cutting out. Launching herself and her bicycle into a handy ditch to take cover, she was amazed to find it already occupied by... Read more
Charles Arthur Samphier Born12/5/1937 Wyatts Green
My parents bought Wyatts Stores in about 1936 and moved from West Ham, E.London., with my two sisters. Dad kept about 300 chickens in the back field. I was born on Coronation Day at Wyatts Stores . We lived there fore 3 years before my fathers work took him to St Albans where we moved in 1940. We often visited Doddinghurst and spent many happy holidays there, being only too glad to get away from the war problems in St Albans. The shop was rented out and Dad also had bought Upton and Portway which were so named after the Lane and house they used to live in at West Ham, and they were let to the Pyners and McDonalds families. We used to stay in the bungalow at the back of White ? Farm. Kate Stallwood owned the Bungalow up the field and Fred London owned the farm. At the shopw we had no mains water then but the standpipe was just opposite Wyatts Green Lane, although we had... Read more
Norton Heath Equestrian Centre
My memories are of my year training at the equestrian centre when it was run by Victor Carter as a riding school and renowned BHS exam school. I trained for my BHSAI there, under Mr Carter, along with head instructor Pamela Green/Swain and John Mithcell - who's family ran/run the local RDA from their home. I was joined by Claire, Melanie De La Haye, Carol and Gill Smith during my time there. It was hard work but enjoyable. I returned to Norton Heath some 27 years later and was amazed at the transformation it had taken from being a riding school to a busy equestrian centre running shows of all descriptions - the school side had long since gone - shame really as I loved it there at the time.
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