The Green c1960, Hatfield Peverel
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Childhood in The Village
I moved to Hatfield Peverel in late 1941, after my family was bombed out in London. My father took the Duke of Wellington pub over, where we lived until 1949. Yes they were good years in the village, but at the beginning we were outcasts as we were Cockneys, but after three months it got really good. ONly my dialect was a bit different and got me into a lot of trouble at school, the local church school. During the raids, at school we had air raid shelters which were in the school playground and when the siren went we would go out there until it was over, but to me they didn't feel safe as they were above the ground and had only one way in, and a little hole at the other end where you would have to crawl out. I made many friendss there - Janet Cleave from the bakery, Edith Brown from Peverel Lodge which was a beautiful house with a brick wall around it, opposite... Read more
Christmas 1968
I spent a most wonderful Christmas at Hatfield Place in 1968. The family who then owned the huge home were welcoming and it was my first view of grand homes and the people who lived in them. I wrote a short story about my experience there because I wanted to put it down to memory. Next to a Christmas I spent in Cambridge in 1989, it was my most memorable. Being a very naive American girl I was puzzled by the lady of the house showing me a photo of where her family stood during an audience with the Queen. But the owner of the home went on to be knighted, so they must have been important in some way or another As all of that did not matter to a girl of 20, with a great great grandfather coming from England and settling in Maine, I respectfully listened and learned a lot. The Christmas Day dinner was delicious. Boxing Day came alive instead of simply... Read more
Does Providence Cottage Still Exist?
My paternal grandmother, May Moss, used to live in Providence Cottage in Hatfield Peverel. Does anyone know if it still exists, and what road it is in? Presumably it was connected to the Church in some way.
As A Child
I lived at No 3 The Terrace Station Road, and started school in Hatfield Peverel in 1945. My farther worked for Lord Raleigh at the Bury farm also at Termitts farm. As a lad i worked for Mr Oliver the baker on a Saturday morning, we used to make the bread early in the morning and Mr Oliver would deliver the bread with his horse and cart, i would follow him on my bike with a basket on my arm and he would give me bread to take to customers houses. On Saturday afternoon i worked for Bob Sorrell the butcher on the corner of Bury Lane, again delivering meat on my trade bike with a basket on the front,after that it was time to scrub out the freezers before finishing off in the shop.
My best mates used to be Barry Young, his farther was the station master, and Geof Cracknell, his parents had the stores in the street.
I can also remember the POWs when they were at... Read more
