Mothering Sunday
A Memory of Lower Broadheath.
This is probably around 1960, can't really remember. Anyway, it was eons ago when I would have been not quite ten years old, all the Sunday school children would leave flowers at the altar of the church. During the Mothering Sunday service we would all go and collect our flowers from the altar, and bring them to our mothers who were sitting in the pews. I always remember this on Mothering Sunday, and I think my mother was genuinely pleased when she received those flowers. Unfortunately I never got to speak to her as an adult because she died young.
I really liked that Church as well. I also remember a stained-glass window where an angel was leading a child down a path. I loved looking at that window, and I always tried to sit near it during children's services.
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When I was growing up in Broadheath in the fifties and sixties there was a Rastall family. I am sure that one of the Rastall familiy members was in charge of the local post office. If I remember correctly Mr Rastall had lost part of his arm, probably in the war. Mr Rastall had a son and a daughter. The son was called Tony Rastall who would have been born either in the late forties or early fifties. I still have some Broadheath contacts if you want me to help you.