Childhood Memories
I remember buying a lollipop & a caramac bar from the little sweetshop opposite my school in Dark Lane most days after school (they also sold Tizer by the glass). Mr Pope the kindly school lollipop man. The fish & chip shop where a very old lady (I was 6 so anyone over 30 was old!!) called Emma worked. Fairy lights strung along Hart Rd by the shops at Christmas time. Thundersley Infants School being set fire to, so no school for a while (Hurrah!) then lessons in some kind of huts near the church for a couple of months
before finally being shipped by bus daily to a school near Hadleigh for 2 terms while our school was repaired. Playing for hours on the common, in the woods & in the play area which had the highest slide I had/have ever seen. It was so high the top was caged in for safety. I left Thundersley 36 years ago when I was 11 (I was Maureen Slattery back then) so most of my childhood memories are there. It was a lovely place to grow up in.
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RE: RE: Childhood Memories
I share the exact same memories of the infants school being being burned down, the temporary old makeshift classroom, the busing to temporary new school in Hadleigh (if you had Mr Davis and Ms Vipond, we were in the same class), and the very high slide on the common!
Comment from Martin Feuchtwanger on Sunday, 21st March 2010.
RE: RE: Childhood Memories
I was in Mrs Goddard's class at the time of the fire...infant school teacher...I remember Welsh Mr Davis the junior school teacher although I was not in his class...which is just as well as I was scared of him. lol.
Comment from Maureen Barnes on Sunday, 13th March 2011.