1958: A memory of Great Easton

In 1958

A Memory of Great Easton.

I lived in this house for a year in 1958 when my father was stationed at RAF Wethersfield. We spent a good deal of time in the kitchen as the warmest room in the house. When spring came it was lovely in the back garden with snowdrops and other spring flowers abounding.

All the village children introduced my sister and I to the old abandoned RAF station in Little Easton where we rode our bicycles on the old tarmac. It remains a cherished memory.

Added 19 March 2020

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My father was also stationed at Wethersfield, 1960-1963. We lived at the bottom of the hill, at Bridgefoot, in Lings Cottage. We used to play under the bridge in the River Chelmer. I remember riding on a wagon into the flower fields. The driver, "Jock," would set some of us kids on the back of the wagon, with our feet dangling, and we would ride into the fields, where flowers were cut and gathered, and then back to a building where they were put in troughs of water. I was three or four at the time, but had a lovely childhood there, wandering, free, in the fields.

By Bonnie Wood on Sat Dec 26th 2020, at 12:27 pm

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