Summer Holidays
I was born in Brewery Yard, Great Haywood. After the war my mum moved to Notting Hill, London, so in the summer holidays my sister and I would stay at Nan & Grandads in the village. Mum {Eileen Bailey} played the piano in the Fox & Hounds, Stubbs's were the local butchers. I spent a few months at the local school, during the Notting Hill riots. We would come on our own by train, { it was safe in the 50s} then a bus to Shugborough Park, and would walk across the park lugging a rather large suitcase, which my dad had put handles on each end to make it easier for us. I remember going to the pictures in the memorial hall, and a dance now and then. A few of us would play down by the canal, and across the Essex Bridge. Most of the Bailey family are in St Stephen's graveyard. I have very happy memories of Great Haywood, it was then a very pretty place.
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My Nan and Grandpa, Doris and George Cowlishaw, used to own two businesses in Great Haywood, one of the shops near the Green with the then willow tree and also the Great Haywood Garage, back in the 1940s to 1970s. My memories of a child were going to my Nan's shop to take the sweets and ice cream before a day off to Cannock Chase. I am sure that my grandparents were at the shop during the war years. My Nan told me that she used to help many of the residents during the war, 'allowing extra rations'. It was a wonderful quiet little village, bathed continuously (as it seemed) in sunshine. Happy times, and great memories.
Comment from Grant Cowlishaw on Wednesday, 9th December 2009.