Caesar's Camp

A Memory of Cheriton.

My sister and I would visit my grandparents in Cheriton and straight away off we would go up the hills, the trick, when the wind was blowing, was to see how far you could "lay on the wind". Later we would find many rabbits who had myxamytosis, very sad. Those were the days when children could run free in the hills without worry. There was a place behind the hills where the original channel tunnel was started I believe in the 40's. My mother was disgusted at the idea of cutting through the hills. When my mother died my sister and I spread her ashes on the hills overlooking the new channel tunnel and whenever I go through it I say a silent prayer "its OK mum, only me!"

Su Knight