Re Meddicks in Knatts Valley
My parents bought land and built a house in Knatts Valley named Holmwood in 1926. My mother was the first postmistress in the valley. My brother and I both attended Kingsdown Primary School from 1932-42. We grew up knowing the valley like the back of our hand. We left the valley in 1942 and have lived in Australia for the last 58 yrs My grandparents are buried in Woodlands Cemetery. My grandfather Meddick was the chief air raid warden in the first part of the war and died in 1942.
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The camp had to be closed down during the war. The RAF took over the accomodation and place a barrage balloon on the first grass court which was near the road. My mother, sister and self went to Wales for 5 months whilst my father stayed as he was working in the NUR in London. Then the NUR evacuated to Wallingford and we joined my father there until the end of the war when we returned to Woodlands and started up the camp again. It needed a lot of hard work as things had fallen in dis-repair and the tennis court had a huge hole in it. It was then my father made the court up in the woods. My sister went to Kemsing Primary School but I was too young and did not start my Primary education until we were in Wales. Our Secondary Education was undertaken in Sevenoaks but later on I went to Maidstone Tech. by train. We did an enormous amount of walking in those days to and from school and then on summer and spring evenings. I do not know how many times I have walked up and down the escarpment of the North Downs. We had friends in Kemsing and Heaverham and we were always rushing off to see them after school or at week-ends. I used to go riding on my pony down Knatts valley. There was a shop there but I do not remember a Post Office. However I knew it sometime after your family left.
Comment from Barbara Benedict Nee Mellor on Wednesday, 14th April 2010.