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Year: 1953
Forge Farm A memory of Goudhurst, Kent Just found this site while looking for Chinley which I believe is close by. Forge Farm memories of the fun times we had as children hop picking with nan and gran-dad, dad and mum, aunts and uncles and of course my siblings. At that time the farm supplied student teachers for the children's education, no one went as we were all too busy playing or fishing in the pond in the middle of the common. Home was a corrugated iron hut, very basic, the bed was made from timber poles with slats laid across. I remember we always took a large cotton mattress case with us and it was our job to fill this with straw supplied by the farmer, if you have never slept on a straw mattress it was always warm. Because there were so many of us the farmer allowed us to take away a section of the joining iron sheet to make two huts into one and put in real glass windows. Cooking was over an open wood fire in the cookhouse, you never went hungry in the country, there was always something to eat, be it scrumpt or poached or caught in Bedgebury Lake, the lake on the common is still there. Picking the hops was the job of the adults with nan in charge, we were employed if we were around to pull the vines down from the wires, nan's hands used to be a blur when she was picking, or was it because we were children, when the tally man came around she would insist that she shook the hops to get as much air into them as possible (they were measured by the basket) so more air meant less hops to each basket, therefore more baskets. Dad always got a job in the oast house drying the hops and then pressing the hops into the large sacks called pokes. I would be riding on the tractor with Wally (how did his name pop into my mind) who showed us how to make clothes pegs and wooden flowers. We continued picking at Forge Farm for many years and just recently I took my niece to see where her dad, my brother, (who has passed away) spent many summer weeks. Upon returning home to Peckham and going back to primary school we would be put into a class that they thought was appropriate, we always caught up with the lessons but had a much richer education because of going hop picking. Last edited: 18/09/2008 16:45 by Tom Cole |
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Year: 1961
Visiting My Parents In Iden Green A memory of Iden Green, Kent I have very fond memories of visiting my parents, Margaret & Percy Thorburn who owned Coveney Cottage from 1961 until 1980. We used to come down from London on the National Coach to Benenden and then a Fuggles Garage car/taxi would take us down to Iden Green. Alternatively we would meet my parents in the pub (name temporarily forgotten) and have a drink before driving back to their cottage. I remember the village when it had its own public house and village shop, and lots of the older residents, Fred & Lily of Lilac Cottage, Mrs Daw from the other half of Coveney Cottage, Joan Witterkoff of Seerose Cottage, to name but a few. My parents are now buried in St George's churchyard, and we come down from time to time to go down memory lane. Posted: 09/01/2008 22:58 by Anne Kennedy |
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Hawkhurst Today A memory of Hawkhurst, Kent It's funny you should mention the Woods Butchers, I'm living in Hawkhurst now and am only 19 but I'm friends with the daughter who owns Wood Butchers, Emily Wood. I do enjoy living in Hawkhurst, it is interesting to look at the old pictures and see what it used to look like, probably a lot nicer in my opinion. I'm not a fan of the new appliances shop on the corner where there used to be a Circle-C which then changed into an Alldays which then closed down when the Budgens opened. I did enjoy the sweets shop when I was younger though, it's a shame that closed down. Last edited: 17/11/2008 09:29 by Helen Cripps |
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Year: 1950
Growing Up In Hawkhurst A memory of Hawkhurst, Kent I have so many happy memories of growing up in Hawkurst in the 1940s /1950s and although Hawkhurst has changed a lot over the years it's a lovely place to visit. I still remember all the shops along the colonnade and the moor. Buss the bakers at the moor and little sweet shop just round the corner and 'Pipers' the sweet shop was owned by my friend's grandparents. We used to go hop picking as well. I also got married in St Laurence's Church which I remember having a new roof as it was bombed during the war. Maureen Smith (nee Wenham). Last edited: 06/11/2008 09:13 |
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Year: 1982
My Home Hawkhurst A memory of Hawkhurst, Kent I grew up in hawkhurst , i lived in gills green in hawkhurst , hawkhurst has a close community everybody knew everybody , most familys that lived there had lived there for years even generations . my dads family had lived there for many years . i have very fond memorys of hawkhurst while i was growing up , the tractors going up and down the road all day . where i lived there were farms all around us. I could smell fresh wood from the wood factory just up the road , i would wake up to the sound of sheep barring in the fields just across the road and birds singing . The kind of thing you would see on the television now advertisted as a country retreat . Miles of beautiful countryside. I remember the village had a happy shopper shop , boldocks the baker`s where once a week my mum would buy the best cheese salad roll i`ve ever had . I remember the jumble sales in the victoria hall and waiting for the raffle at the end keeping my fingers crossed in case we won a lovely home-made cake. but most of all i remember the magical feeling of hawkhurst and in my view the most stunning village in kent with a lot of history, enough to keep anyone busy for a long time. I moved out of hawkhurst when i was 16 and moved back with my own family then, when i was 19 lived there until i was 21 and regretfully moved away again, i have been back many times since visiting friends and family ,and have seen how hawkhurst has changed over the years , today there is only one original family business still running there and thats woods the butchers up the moor . its sad to see so much change , but hawkhurst has grown. Hawkhurst will always beautiful to me . Posted: 18/11/2007 00:57 by Susanne Jones |
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