Going To School

A Memory of Churchill.

The liitle boy on the right is me aged 3 going to churchill school (now a house). My mum (Ruth Wilkey) is pushing my "new" brother Mike in the push chair. Mum is 84 now and lives in Keynsham and Mike lives in New Zealand. I am still at work (just) in Plymouth and live in Cornwall. I hated churchill school and have memories of gruesome school lunches. I did however like Anne Goodsell who is the daughter of a friend of my late Dads who is the little girl walking the other side of Mum. We lived in a bungalow down the lane called Trispen. It was the last one in the row. Opposite we had a dairy farm run by the Palmer family and Jo Maffey and her Husband John who was a vet at Langford also rented a flat or cottage off them. I remember we had a doctor called Taylor who used to arrive in an old green vintage Bently and jump over the gate! He only had one medicine for everything as far as I can remember - it was strawberry flavour.

Dad worked for Bristol Aeroplane at Oldmixon making helicopters.

I recall the old nissen hut which was the village hall opposite side of the Main road - big grass area now. This used to double as a cinema and hairdressers! About the same year or two as this picture I recall going to a christmas fair in the hall near the clock tower and coming home with a model Spitfire - they were 10 a penny then! Dad had to make it though.

Bob Wilkey