My Grandfather The Village Postman
My grandfather, Bert Sampson, was the postman in the late 40s/ 50s. My grandmother, Ivy, and he lived at Woodview. My father said he used to sell produce from his smallholding as he did his rounds. Anyone remember?
Then his son Ron and his wife moved in and had all my cousins. Eight of them. They all lived in this small house and my family would come up from London on a visit and I hated it. I was used to street lamps and the loo down the hall, not up the field! There were wellies, lined up by the back door and you picked a pair that fitted you and off to the loo. I was scared. My cousins and I are all grown up and mostly married with children. Anyone remember them? I will try and get them to add their memories.
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Dawn's memories of life in Great Dunham village many years ago were found by me to be interesting. I was born in North Street eighty one years ago in the house next door to that of her grandfather and remember him well. He together with his wife and two sons (Ronnie and Bill) moved next door to us soon after the end of WW2 after Tom Adcock and his family left. Bert took over as village postman after Mr. Cook retired. My father (who was also a postman) would sort the mail early each morning at the village Post Office under the supervision of Mrs.Bambridge after which Bert and Sid Whales would set off on their bicycles to deliver the mail to Great Dunham and the adjoining village of Beeston. Both men were ex-service men and had much in common. Sid was wounded at the battle of the Somme in 1916 having rallied to Kitchener's call at the age of 21 years.
I remember German bombers dropping bombs on Bob Jackson's farm also on the farms of W.Warnes, William Everington and Herbert Cresswell without casualties other than killing a skylark at Hill Farm. The pilot of the Dornier could be clearly seen giving us a wave of his hand when he bombed Jackson's. I also watched planes machine gunning chicken huts which I assume were thought by the pilots to be chicken huts. I and my brother Mike left England in 1952 and now live in retirement in New Zealand. I worked on farms in the village in the 40s and 50s for farmers Peter Whales, Warnes, Everington, Rivett, and Spalding. All were excellent men and an asset to the village. Some interesting village characters at the time worthy of mention would be Plant Hubbard Barny Carter etc.
Comment from Dick Whales on Tuesday, 7th October 2008.