Childhood in The 1960s-Early 1970s
I remember Beech Hill very well as I lived over Glayshers Hill from 1958 when I was 2 years old - we couldn't get up the hill in the winters back then and my dad would spend ages trying to get to work. We spent our childhood playing over Arford Common and the big old house at the top of the hill that eventually became Kays Crescent. Mr Radford from the village used to deliver vegetables to our door and all shopping was done at Whittles - oh, and Mr Weever up on Headley Down baked all the bread and cakes. I grew up with all the kids from Eerie Camp and went to Mill Chase. I had a friend who lived under the archway - where Mrs Groves used to live - at the top of Barley Mow Hill (the postbox was in the hedge). At the bottom of Barley Mow Hill was the good old 'Wheatsheaf' where Chris and Cyril never did know our real ages! We would skive off school and go over the Lithuanian Club and Kevin Smith fell through the ice on the pond when we tried skating! Beech Hill was a focal point where we would 'hang out' at the bus stop as teenagers. There was a small church next door - St Francis's - where we went to Sunday School with Mrs Lampard and Mrs Johnson and Brownies run by Mrs Ansell - oh, it all seemed so innocent then - but you had to wait 3 hours for the no 18 bus on a Sunday.
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RE: RE: Childhood in The 1960s-Early 1970s
My twin brother Paul and I were born at number 38 Erie Camp in May 1960. Our house was at the lower entrance to the camp and our garden was across the road where dad grew his fruit and vegetables and kept chickens. We had two large cherry trees as well which still remain today. The shop to the new estate of Heatherlands is built where our house originally stood. There were prison cells at the lower end of the estate and the surrounding fields were used as the local refuse dump! Paul and I would explore and return home with treasure from our adventure only to receive a spanking for playing on the dump! One winter we used the bonnet of an old car as a sledge and spun down the hill bordering the whittaker woods with all of the gang on board. Many a day was spent bird nesting and exploring the woods. The field opposite was called Crista Fields and is now where Kays Crescent stands. We moved to Openfields in Headley in April 1967 but still walked up to Headley Down to Whittles through the Arford woods and breakneck hill! Happy days.
Comment from Pauline Bishop on Wednesday, 16th February 2011.
RE: RE: Childhood in The 1960s-Early 1970s
My mother Dawn Callaghan was one of the first to live in Eire Camp with her mother, known as Kit Callaghan, later to be known as Kit Wells, who also had a sister Kathleen. I am trying to trace anyone who remembers this family so I can build a family rememberance book, and if anyone who has any photos of this family I would like to get in touch with them.
Comment from Nicola Pearce on Wednesday, 9th March 2011.
RE: RE: Childhood in The 1960s-Early 1970s
I remember the CALLAGHAN family went to school Dawn also lived in Erie camp from 1958 -1972
Comment from Marian Plummer on Thursday, 17th March 2011.
RE: RE: Childhood in The 1960s-Early 1970s
I moved to Erie estate and we were probably one of the first three famlies there, we moved into no 4 but later moved next door to no 3. Other families were the Triggs, Tich Burrows and the Martins at no 2 who ran a religious club called Sunny Corner, later came Chunky Cain, the Wadhams and George and Kit Callaghan with their only daughter Dawn, who I soon got friendly with as they had a TV which was a novelty, then I later became her childhood boyfriend. In 1961 we moved to Whitehill, but my heart was always in Headley Down, so much so that I married Sylvia Benham and have lived where Benhams back garden would have been. Sadly Sylvie passed away in 1991 but I have since remarried. I don't think I will ever leave Headley Down, it has so many memories. Brian Thomas.
Comment from Brian Thomas on Saturday, 2nd April 2011.