Richard Parker

A Memory of Hinton Martell.

I was at Sister Butler' Orphanage from 1948 to 1959. Still in touch with Sally Hayter although I'm living in Australia now. Peter Edenborough, Sally Stevens and Maureen come to mind as children that were there with me. I remember coming down the fire escape ladder at night and walking up the village. I was also an alter boy at the church which my family find hard to believe. I remember mowing the lawns with an old grey mower and sweeping up the leaves from the ivy. We had fun there, it was a good place and I went back for a while after I left home. We were pretty free to roam in those days and visited the farm for apples and the sweet shop. Miss Pritchard was the school principal at that time and every now and then a bus load of tourists would throw sweets over the garden wall.

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