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My late parents were the landlord and landlady of the Vine public house. I was just coming into teenage years. Friends came from the base who lived in the village. The pub itself was refurbished in that ...Read more

A memory of Great Bardfield in 1969 by Dawn Willshere

In 1953 I attended Bradfield Primary School which in this year of 2007 celebrates its centeniory year. I have fond memories of many cricket matches during my time at the school playing ...Read more

A memory of Bradfield in 1953 by David Cheverton

I was born at 16 Roding Avene, the prefabs right next to the River Roding. Across the main London Road was Delayneys, also the Masters Match factory with its tall chimmney. I remember seeing the chimney being knocked down, the man at the ...Read more

A memory of Barking by Yvonne Tilbury

I was only six years old when I was taken to Thaxted by my father, in 1941. We moved from Start Hill near Bishop's Stortford, reasons were the war and the Yanks which we will not enter into. The first thing that struck me ...Read more

A memory of Thaxted in 1941 by Ronald Barker

I think it was 1950, when my late wife and I were courting and trying to find a home we could afford. We chanced to hear of the condemned Village School and the adjoing Hall, which the Church Commissioners wanted to sell for ...Read more

A memory of Burghfield in 1950 by Clement Dennis

I was born in 1944 and lived in Cranmer Road until 1958. Our neighbours on one side were Mr & Mrs Norwood, who always sent round a portion of home-made spotted dick for me on a Friday evening when rationing was still in ...Read more

A memory of Edgware by Roger Bowen

Does anyone remember Ashwell Hall which was in Great Bardfield (I think)? I was born there and my grandfather Mark Allen, and grandmother Alice lived there. My grandfather, worked for Captain Cook and ran the apple orchards, there ...Read more

A memory of Finchingfield in 1945 by Jan Clark

Mum and Dad were nurses, Dad specialising in psychiatric nursing. In the late 1960s, their careers took them to Jacques Hall and a post with what was then known as the Spastics Society. The Society had either bought or ...Read more

A memory of Jacques Hall by Nicolas Devonport