The Green c1955, Great Holland
The Green c1955, Great Holland Ref: G274018
Memories of The Green c1955, Great Holland
My Great Uncles House
This photograph looks as though it was taken from the gate way of the house where my great uncle lived and as indeed I did, untill 1949. There were if I remember, four semi detached houses that joined up with the old Post Office going towards Clacton. The view from my uncles house gate looks down towards Pork Lane and it is there that my Great greatgrandfather lived in Plantation Cottages and where he died in 1923. Sadley all the houses and the Post Office have now been demolished not sure when but they were there about mid sixties.
Next door to great uncles house the other way towards Kirby Cross, there was a typical black Essex large shed and a smaller one. The house next to these and the owner of the sheds, I remember to this day, had a large enmal sign advertising "Colman's Mustard" covering what would have been covering no doubt, many holes in his missing tiles!
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Great Holland & local memories
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Happy Memories
The house in the photo is where my mother, Ruby Bugg was born, it was later knocked down & new houses built there, we moved into one of the houses in 1959. My sister, friends & I would play & make daisy chains on the rectory meadow, & go bluebelling in the woods behind the church. Great childhood memories. I now live in Australia & have been here 30 years, but when I think of "home", its Great Holland I think of.
Bareham Family
My Great grandfather Thomas Bareham lived at the Veldt Cottage which was next door to the Red Lion pub.He was also church warden at Great Holland Parish Church where he was well liked and respected. Although I live in Ipswich, I visit Great Holland and Clacton quite often.
