Childhood Memories Of Pershore Hall

A Memory of Pershore Hall.

My parents and I lived in one of the flats in Pershore Hall for about two or three years, when I was a toddler in the early 1960s. Probably between 1963 and 1965 (I was born in 1962). Naturally my memories are very vague, but there is some old cine film of the area with the plum trees (or were they cherry trees?) in bloom. Also my father (who was working with radar in the RAF) walking home in his uniform. Our surname is Aylott.
I remember playing outside in the gardens with some little boys who must have lived there too - I think there was some kind of wedge-shaped ramp which must have been for loading lorries, and garages.
I also remember having my hair washed outside on the lawn one hot summer's day and crying when the soap got in my eyes. I can't really remember inside the flat - maybe it was quite small, which made it more convenient to bathe me outside in good weather! I do remember my mother cutting off some toadstools from an interior wall with a sharp knife though. Funny what things small children remember.
I think we had a neighbour called Mrs Taylor, who cleaned. I know there is a photo of her with me somewhere, holding a kitten.
My mother told me that one day, when she was hanging out washing, looking over the Malvern hills, she saw a dark round object in the sky flying low across the sky. She expected it to fly in front of the hills, but to her amazement it disappeared behind, which meant it must have been traveling impossibly fast. It later slipped her mind until my father came home and said they had seen an object on the radar that day that had been traveling so fast they had lost it! this was during the Cold War so goodness knows what it had been - a UFO?! Mind you, this story has been told many times over the last 56 years, so it might not be very accurate.

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