Hawley Memories

A Memory of Hawley.

We, as a family, moved to Hawley in 1958 from Slade Green. We moved to 32 Harold Road. Our back garden was at the end of Mill Road and we had a very large corrugated iron shed at the bottom of this garden. Lots of the children came along to help when my parents decided to pull it down, no health and safety then! We had such fun with everyone lending a hand. I remember lovely summer evenings when all the 'gang' would meet up and we would go into the fields and build castles using the bales of hay kindly left to us by the local farmers, yet again, no health and safety ha ha. There were orchards abound and many an hour was spent picking up the fallen fruit. Mrs Flint I believe had a little shop in Shirehall Road, and the larger store was on the main road on the corner with Mill Road. We had a school coach that picked us up from the main road and took us up to Downs School for Girls, in Green St, Green Road.
At first upon moving, I carried on attending Slade Green Secondary Modern school, cycling in the good weather and bus and train in bad, but it was too expensive for my parents hence the move to The Downs school in 1959. Hawley in the early 60's was a mixture of old properties and new builds much to the delight of our 'gang', we explored where we could. Would be great to see someone else with their memories on this page. We moved to Gillingham in 1962 but have been back to check on our old home and Hawley itself. Although the M25 is close I feel that Hawley still retains most of its village feel.

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