Happy Days

A Memory of Medge Hall.

My name is Maureen Poulastides (nee Pye). I lived on the farm that was close to the canal and railway line/signal box around 1954 until about 1958, I don't remember exactly. My Dad, Norman Pye was a farm labourer there. My mother is Ada (Pat), they would have been 33 years old. I would have been 9, and my brother Norman 8, and my sister Beryl 1-2 years old.
We used to play on the farm and down by/in the canal. I remember going in the steam engine down to what I think was a peat bog (I'm not sure what it was), going into the signal box switching the lines. No health and safety then. Getting frog spawn from the 'pond' with mums tea strainer, she was not impressed.
Going to the Christmas party at school on a tractor and trailer, Easter egg hunts in the school playground/field, May Pole dancing. Making models with the clay from the dyke.
I fell in the dyke that ran between the farm and a field, in the winter, I got congestion of the lungs and nearly died.
I'm 70 now, and June 11/12/13 2016 I am coming to Yorkshire to retrace the places that I have lived, if anyone reads this and remembers me or my family, please contact me. My email is currently not available, but my husbands is pouly@sky.com, or my mobile 07901922708.

PS Between 1947-1957 we lived in Burstwick, Saltaugh Sands, Medge Hall, Sproatley.

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