Growing Up In No 3 Eardiston View

A Memory of Menithwood.

My name is Derek Hall, the brother to Martin Hall & Pamela Hall, we used to live at No 3 Eardiston View in Menith Wood in the 1960s with our mom Velta Hall. I am now 58 years old living in London with four grown up children from two mariages, I commute to Southampton where I work on Esso Refinery. I was wondering what happened to all of the village children that would now be around my age:- The Fumerollers, Nick-Tine I know Frank who was the best man at my first wedding in Lichfield was killed in a road accident in Stourport in the 1970s, Michael Edwards, Francis & Janet Holt, Jacki Bradley then there was Jimmy Birch, Colin Bentley, Jimmy Sherif (Sheko). I have been out of the UK in Africa most of my life since leaving the security and happiness of childhood, I do really miss the life in Menithwood. I am remembering the good and not so many bad times, swimming in the Team at Eardiston, climbing Mount Pleasant, going to Pensax school all together on Yaringtons old green busses then all walking back home past Patrick Lagdon's house, the gooseberry and strawberry fields and cherry orchards which I always had to have a visit to, to check when the fruits were ripe, and climbing over the ivy-coated walls of Pensax Hall. Well, I hope someone from the village sees this memory somewhere in the world and makes contact as none of us are getting any younger.