Abbotts Hall Chase Army Huts From 1946 1948
A Memory of Stanford-le-Hope.
I was four years old when our family moved from Liverpool to squat in one of the army huts. I remember it very well, and the German prisoners of war who made such a fuss of us children. We had no electricity, running water or toilets but a big cast iron stove in the middle of the hut. Often we had nothing to burn in the stove and sat bundled up in our coats to keep warm. We used a kerosene lamp for light and a primus stove to cook on. I started school in Stanford-le-Hope when I was five, and we were moved to requisitioned house in Grays when I was six.
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