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Fisiting Grandparents
Church Road - there was a row of old ricketty cottages where my grandparents, Thomas and Alice Wilkinson lived. Next door to them was an old lady always dressed in a long black skirt and a hat. She talked to herself and we were half scared of her -but realise now that she was lonely. Miss Prentice used to make lovely home made sweets. The Old Rectory was Edie Talbot's house and the beams were covered up by plaster, I didn't realise it was so lovely.
My grandfather worked on Sweicher's (?) Farm, he was born in Bobbingworth (Bovinger) My grandparents are buried in St, Mary;'s Churchyard but I couldn't find the gravestone last year. My baby uncle Harry is also buried there.
My grandmother used to tell us of the ghost in the vicarage that used to pull up the bedclothes in one of the bedrooms! I think my mother's cousin Peggy, used to run the village shop at one time.
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Marconi Bunglaows
We moved to North Weald when I was three. Lived across the street from The Talbot in Marconi Bungalows. Dad worked at the Marconi Radio Station. I used to catch the bus for school at The Talbot. I had a friend who lived in the house next to it. I lived there until I emigrated to the US in 1961. The mother of my friend whom I've known since I was three still lives there. We keep in touch. Such fond memories.
Aiden's Bike.
I remember this picture well, back in 1955, i was a nipper, and my good friend Aiden, he was a bit of a petrol head, he loved bikes more then anything in the world, that bike in the picture was his one, he was my best friend untill he had a major bike crash, and lost his head, the bike was saved though.. but the rider was gone forever... sad times....
Family Lived in Tylors Green Between 1939 Untill 1970s
My family moved from Moreton to North Weald in 1939, I was 9 year old at the time. My father was called Thomas Yeldham and became the local cobbler, my mother was called Maud. While still at school I had a Saturday job at Churches Butchers, then when i left school at 14 I went to Churches as an apprentice butcher.
While there, in 1948 I was called up for my National Service. Sadly I never came back to live in North Weald, as I settled in Devon, but my parents lived in North Weald untill the 1970s. My father is buried in North Weald church yard, after his death my mother moved to Ongar.
I can remember playing football on Saturdays against the Belgium Air Force boys, as I lived near the bottom of the Air Field, and I would regularly try and climb the Marconi pylons.
Happy Summers in North Weald
My mother Pamela Joan Jackson moved to North Weald from Leytonstone during the war with her parents John Arthur Jackson and Rose Lucy Jackson and her sister Rose. They lived at 23 Bassett Gardens. My aunt Rose married Pat Barry, had a son, John, born in 1939 and lived at 39 High Road, North Weald.
I spent all my summer holidays visiting my grandparents and aunt and uncle, we lived in Scotland and it was always an exciting trip going from Aberdeen on the sleeper to London. I remember going to the bakers and buying gorgeous hot bread (Cottage Loaf) and to the butchers to buy ham and we would have a lovely picnic in my grandparents' garden where my grandfather grew masses of lovely fruit and veg. It seemed as if the sun always shone in North Weald.
I also remember the trips to Epping to the market and to buy Granny a new corset!!! in a department store, don't recall the name.
I visited North Weald last... Read more
Tales of Years Gone By!!
Hello! I am Arnold Chapman, my father was the minister of the little chapel (now a private house). I used to play with a lad called I think Ronald Babcock?? who lived in a farm nearly opposite. I think one time the barn caught fire. I recall going to the little school, sometimes getting a ride in a local farm cart!! No cars to worry about in those days. Another person I recall is Mrs Salmon who had bad arthritis. I am in my middle 70s so the memory plays games with you sometimes. My father also looked after a chapel in Matching Green, helping to build a wooden building to use as a chapel.
I can remember watching the doodle bugs going over on their way to London and my mum making us hide under the kitchen table.
The little shop comes to mind, if I remember it seemed to sell everything in those days in spite of rationing.
