Looking Back At Hockley Essex

A Memory of Hockley.

I rather enjoyed my young days at Clements Hall, Hockley children's home. We use to go scrumping and the corn on the cob field was right next to us, so we never went hungry, just ended up with tummy aches the next day. The playing field next to us was known as the cricket field and we used to make the tea for the cricketers. Then we would have days out to Southend and had one of those sun huts to do our changing in, great fun. There was always something to do in Hockley for youngsters. The schools were great. I went to Hawkwell Holt School then to Rochford Senior School as it was known back in the early sixties. I have recently looked Hockley up on multimap and noticed not much had changed. I live in York now but will be using the Eurostar train for Paris to visit my daughter as she won a PH.d Fellowship for eight weeks in Paris, on the way back I will be dropping off to see Hockley again to rekindle memories and to have a flashback in time. I know there is a lot of growth growing around Clements Hall so not sure if I will get to see any of it but hope to see some of the town. Didn't really go near the woods as that was to far for us to go. All in all I think it is a great place to grow up in.