14 Newbiggen Street
A Memory of Thaxted.
My great grandmother lived at 14 Newbiggen Street, just on the righthand side of this photo.
A couple of the stories I know about the place are:
The doctor would come from Saffron Walden to see the Thaxted people and then send the prescriptions over on the bus. My great grandmother would then have people sit in her front parlour and wait and she would take the precription delivery and administer itmto the waiting patients. She grew arnica in her back garden and lilly of the valley. She preserved the Lilly of the valley leaves in whiskey and they were used to bind wounds I am told. My (now) 94 year old mother lived with her Gran in that house and now lives in Humfrey Lodge in Thaxted.
My Great Grandparents drank at The Bull opposite.
On a Saturday night you could tell where the party was because the piano would be pushed out of one house and into another for the sing song. Must have been great.
I dont know when my grandmother lived there first but my mother lived there around 1939.
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