An Image From My Memory....!

A Memory of Little Common.

My mother passed away in 1955 just two days after my 12th birthday following which a couple who my father knew and who had a handicapped son in a children's home in the village in Suffolk where I lived took me to their home in Little Common for a few weeks holiday with them. I believe the house in the rear of the picture was adjoined to the then Lloyds Bank and was the house where they lived.
You entered the house and garden from the road on the left and the Bank from the road on the right. I had several happy weeks there as I had a strong love of horses and they had arranged for me to go down to a stable area nearby where I was allowed to groom and help clean out a couple of hunter horses cared for by a Mr & Mrs Fortescue.
I remember playing and riding a pony with a joung girl named Jackie and some others of about my own age, and having great fun which really helped me to get over the loss of my mum.
I am 77 now and try as I might I am unable to bring to mind the names of the couple who I stayed with. They were a lovely couple who took me under their wing and took me out all over the south east counties. I have always thought fondly of them and several years ago I went to Little Common when on holiday that way. The house where I stayed had been demolished and it looked like the bank had been rebuilt on the site. I also went down to the area where the stables were situated but they were gone and bungalows had been built on the land. The picture of the war memorial with the house in the backround has always been my memory of Little Common and it is so nice to see it as it was when I was there.

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