Kelvedon Hatch
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Charles Arthur Samphier born12/5/1937 wyatts green
My parents bought Wyatts Stores in about 1936 and moved from West Ham, E.London., with my two sisters. Dad kept about 300 chickens in the back field. I was born on Coronation Day at Wyatts Stores . We lived there fore 3 years before my fathers work took him to St Albans where we moved in 1940. We often visited Doddinghurst and spent many happy holidays there, being only too glad to get away from the war problems in St Albans. The shop was rented out and Dad also had bought Upton and Portway which were so named after the Lane and house they used to live in at West Ham, and they were let to the Pyners and McDonalds families. ...read more here
A memory of Doddinghurst contributed by charles samphier
St Peter's C o fE Junior School
I started at St Peter's in South Weald at the age of four in 1955. This was in the old school which is no longer there. Our teacher was Mrs Fox and we were taught to write on slates. When we became proficient we were allowed to use thick black pencils on paper. I will always remember the carbolic soap in the sinks and the outside toilets with spiders and shiny Izal toilet paper. Mrs Waite's classroom next door had a big stove with railings round it. I lived in Brentwood and arrived at school courtesy of Mr Tiffin's taxi, later replaced by a Tiffin's coach as numbers rose. I think the Mivvi ice lolly was invented while I was a ...read more here
A memory of South Weald contributed by Marilyn Lewis
Children's Home in Shenfield - around 1965 - 1969
I wish to communicate with anyone who may remember a children's home that used to be located on a large field in Shenfield.
The individual wood and brick 2 floored (Swiss styled I think) homes were dotted around the perimeter and of different names. One I know was called 'Thames.'
Children from the London Borough of Hackney were housed there.
I believe there was an Infant or Primary school nearby and the children's home was not far from a small garage with one or two petrol pumps in the dip of the main road!
I believe there was also a field and forested area not too far away.
Anyone who may have memories, photos or ...read more here
A memory of Shenfield contributed by james collins
Auntie DID have TB
I have recently been doing some research into our family history. I was always told by my mother that her elder sister, Bessie Dubora, died from complications following a tonsilectomy but, having now obtained a copy of the Death Certificate, I have discovered that she died at High Wood Hospital in 1925 from TB at the age of 12 years.
My family originally came from the East End of London, so I was at a lost to understand why the Death Certificate originated in Billericay. Having studied some of the entries on this site, I can now see that High Wood must have been what used to be known as a "sanitorium" for children with TB.
Obviously ...read more here
A memory of Brentwood contributed by Sheila Foreman
Extracts From Kelvedon Hatch & Essex books
Epping Forest’s pleasant vistas and the opportunities it offers for a quiet escape from the
busy troubles of London are the attractions that brought people here – and no doubt the
romantic name of the Robin Hood Tavern (built in Victorian times) helped.
An extract from from"Chigwell Photographic Memories".
The shop on the left
is Morgan’s, selling
confectionery, and the
shop is still an old-
fashioned confectioner’s
just as Morgan would
have remembered it.
These buildings were
built on the wastes in
front of the original
Chigwell Row in c1880.
F Harman & Co, whose
sign we can just make
out on the gate next to
Morgan’s, were builders,
and this was their yard.
An extract from from"Chigwell Photographic Memories".
This house was built by W Pemberton Barnes to replace an earlier house built in the 18th
century. In 1924 the estate had 1,552 acres, 400 of which were parkland. The Havering manor
was a crown manor from the time of Harold, of Hastings fame, until 1828.
An extract from from"Chigwell Photographic Memories".
By 1713 the Chester Room of the Kings Head was being used by the Court of Attachments of Waltham Forest, which met to
decide on minor disputes. Stephen Pewsy, in ‘Chigwell and Loughton: A Pictorial History’, says that the gateway to the pub,
demolished in modern times to make way for the motorcars, even had a small cell to confine miscreants.
An extract from from"Chigwell Photographic Memories".
Here we have an
almost identical view
some ten years later.
One of the great
advantages of the
Frith Collection is that
the photographers
often went back to
the same locations,
which provides us
with subtle degrees
of change. Here the
Bakery has clearly
been refurbished.
An extract from from"Chigwell Photographic Memories".