Cement Works Holborough Road

A Memory of Snodland.

I too went to Holmesdale secondary, it was called Snodland Secondary when I first went there. My Dad and Grandfather, Peter and Henry Buss both worked as lorry drivers at the cement works and we lived in a factory house next door. I remember playing at the bowling green and in the grounds of the old manor house and used to love the waterwheel next to the works canteen. There was a pub across the road from us at the end of a row of terraces but I can't remember what it was called and there was another pub down the road by the waterwheel. My best friends grandfather used to work at the clock tower just up the road. There was a little shop where we used to go to buy sweets.
As kids we spent hours down by the river behind the cement works playing in the old air raid shelter. and catching fish, frogs and newts. I live in Australia now but we are visiting the UK this year.