Ticehurst, The Village c.1950

Photo ref: T45002

My parents owned Singehurst Farm. I lived there with my 7 brothers and my sister in 1962 /1967. I worked at the local hairdressers for a short while. We had lots of fun growing up on the farm, sadly my mum and dad passed away and my sister too. I live in Dorset now.

We were twin sisters, Audrey and Yvonne Long. We were evacuated to Burwash, I only have a photo of us sitting in a field somewhere with more young children of our age, and some younger. I have no memories of the area, or where we stayed or who looked after us. I only have a post card from Burwash Common and a small black/white photographs of us and with the other children, sitting in a line, with ...see more

I lived on Wedds Farm from around 1948 to 1963. My father, George Couzens, a wartime Battle of Britain fighter pilot, was manager of the farm which was owned by Mr A. Howeson. They had met in the RAF during the war. I believe that the photograph would have been taken c1960. The farm certainly had had a milking herd which made way for pig rearing, and the cowshed became one of a number of buildings used for ...see more

I'm sure I have seen this picture before, and think it is Walters Farm - it certainly looks like the Walters Farm Oast in the background. Walters Farm is 500 yards from the Bull at Three Leg Cross going down Tinkers Lane. It is no longer a farm, but it did last until the 1980s. Of particular interest is the wire work, quite modern for then as many farms still used chestnut poles for individual hop hills. I remember individual poles being used at Foxholes in the 1970s.