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first day at school

The only school in haverhill was the cangle the new secondary modern now known as castle manor had not yet been finished. We arrived at school very bewildered being the first of the (Londoners) and feeling like aliens I made a new friend in the short while I had been in Haverhill His name was Micheal Geagon I didn't know at the time but his family was Irish not that that meant anything. I was shown to my classroom and it turned out to be the same classroom as my older sister they had got it wrong I found out later that day that upset me because now I was really on my own.First day in the playground Micheal ...read more here
A memory of Haverhill contributed by Peter Willems

first day

We moved excitedly from London in my dads old Austin 7 to a country village we had never heard haverhill. we couldnt even pronounce it as we found out it still is unpronounceable by many. Arrived at our new house 118 Burton End. a four bedroom HOUSE (not a flat) which is all we had been used to. we had never seen stairs inside a house before and also a front door and a back door which we ran round and round until mum told us to settle down or someone will get hurt and they did., my sister banged her head on a downstairs window, that one of my other sister's had opened up while saying this one opens outwards ...read more here
A memory of Haverhill contributed by Peter Willems

Carlton Hotel

Stationed at a nearby American Air Force base, I visited Newmarket frequently.  My favourite pub was in the Carlton Hotel.  I remember the murals between the front and back bars.  I preferred the back bar.  I and several other airmen took ballroom dance lessons upstairs in the Carlton.  Sadly, I never mastered those.  I had spent so many evenings in the Carlton, that when I left the UK the proprietors - Alf (Greene?) "the guvnor" and Taffy (yes, he was Welsh) gave me a box of gifts.  They included ashtrays, Watney's World Cup Ale bar towels, a dozen pint mugs and a dozen half-pint mugs, some Guinness signs, two large red Watney's barrel beer pumps, and two electrified antique carriage lamps ...read more here
A memory of Newmarket contributed by david slocum

chicken pox

I moved into King Edward Road one hot summers day, covered in red spots. I had to be placed on a makeshift bed in the shade of a tree in the front garden while the rest of the family moved in. Little has changed, but the road seems half the width now due to all the cars parked on both sides of the road. In 1957, hardly anyone had cars. Now, each house could have 2.
A memory of Newmarket contributed by anna stearn