Eagleton Family Living In Otford

A Memory of Otford.

My Grandparents, Thomas & Marie Eagleton lived at The Charne in Otford. As a child I would always play amongst the weeping willows that grew by their house. My grandad would take me for long walks across the fields where we would occasionally pick corn on the cob and even some hops. We would search for owl pellets to retrieve the tiny skeletons of small vermin and birds. We never did make it up to the chalk cross on the hill. My Nan worked in Mrs Mac's Tea room on the round-a-bout by the pond. My father, David Eagleton attended Otford Primary school. I'm told that an Eagleton also lived in the bungalow next to the ruin. My grandad and his daughter Janet are buried at Otford cemetery. My heart will always be in Otford, I have good memories there and I try to visit at least 7 times a year.


Added 14 October 2008

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My grandparents also lived in The Charne Fred and May Smithers they moved there in the 70's before that they lived in Hale Lane where my Mother was born Heather Smithers her brother Kenneth Smithers I am not sure if her eldest brother and sister were born in Hale Lane though Gordon and Rose Smithers. Mum was married in 1963 in Otford Church to my father Sid. They started their married life in Hale Lane but moved away for a few years as my father was in the RAF. They returned with my brother and I in the early 70's about 71/72 and moved to the top end of Hale Lane we both went to the primary school at Otford until 1977 as did my Mother, her brothers and sister in earlier years. I also have fond memories of the willow trees in The Charne and use to hide from my Mum underneath them before she reappeared, My grandparents were May and Fred Smithers.

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