Reminiscence

A Memory of Salwarpe.

I moved to Chawson Crossing with my parents and sister Joan in 1935/36. My father was a railway worker and the house went with the job. The people next door were named Nicklin. I attended Salwarpe school with some of the Nicklin children. I remember a boy named Hinton, someone named Farr and a girl named Hadland, no relation, who lived at Ladywood. The headmaster at the time was Mr Frost who lived in one of the four cottages in Chawson.
I sang in the church choir and remember helping to tune the hand pumped organ.
My memory also tells me about the old mill behind the church and the culvert under the road that we used as a air raid shelter. I also recall a RAF training plane hitting a tree and crashing in the main road near the Copcut Elm pub.
My sister did attend the school for a short time. We all moved to Worcester in 1943 and I finished my schooling at Stanley Road.
These 80 + memories may stir somone else's, I now live in Hertford and have done so since 1950.

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