Matching Green, Church Of St Mary The Virgin c.1955

Photo ref: M128002

Does anyone know of this cottage on the green where some of my relatives lived around the second world war time. Family name was Phillips and Wallace. I understand that they now rest in St. Mary the Virgin Church. Does this cottage or the family names ring a bell with anyone, please? John Wilkin

my mother viola myrtle renton former owers.my mother lived in matching green born today 1925. her mother abbey alice and father Stanley. my mother passed 8 years ago. she always loved the song the green green grass of home. this song played at her funeral . the song always brought back memories of such happy days playing in the fields. the owers family uncles aunts lived in matching as well . her uncle and aunt ran the ...see more

My happy memories of staying with my nan and grandad Leeder who lived in Newman's End. However, my great grandmother Edith Parrish, her second marriage, as her first husband Charles Holgate died in the first world war. So I often visited her and my great aunts and uncles during school holidays and regularly went to the fair on the green - this happened to fall on my birthday. My mother Pamela Leeder went into ...see more

I was born during the Second World War in 1942, the 8th child to my parents at Goose Bridge, Matching Green. My parents were Scottish and people thought they were foreign. My dad worked for Mr Gemmill's farm and drove a lorry for him so he was exempt from call-up for the army till they were so short of drivers that he was called up and went to war when I was six months old, I was three when he ...see more