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Enjoying Life At Blacksmith Cottage With My Nan

A Memory of Easthampstead.

As a young boy just moved to bracknell " in the Earley 60 my parents lived in a bungalow oposit the Green Man pub on the site to which wildridings junior school is now It was called one Acha cottage .We would walk out of our back garden into the farmers field and walk down towards the church coming out at blacksmith cottage to where my nan lived .Our neibough waz a Mrs thack who owned thacks electrical store with her son .she lived many happy years there . .

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I was born on the new Estate, in a terraced house on Longwater Road. Longwater was not actually a road but a footpath. Across from the houses was a small bank covered in rhododendron bushes and chestnut trees. We used to play on the bank but were forbidden to go beyond to "the cottages". These were two derelict cottages and i suppose they were dangerous because of the disrepair, but we thought they were dangerous because they were haunted. I have lots of memories of picnics in the woods at Caesars Camp too. My father passed away when I was six. Up to that point I had gone to Harmonswater School but we stayed with my grandparents in Woking for a few months after Dad passed away and when we returned to our house we were sent to Fox Hill. We moved away not long after my 8th birthday, and then migrated to Australia when I was a teenager. I've been back several times, and while the bushes are still there, the cottages are long gone and there is a pedestrian subway running through what was the cottages. The shops along the road into Bracknell have also gone. We knew them as the Orchard Stores.

By Angela Welsh on Sat Jul 15th 2023, at 8:39 am

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