Family Memories

A Memory of Quidenham.

My early memory of Quidenham is sitting with my grandmother on the village seat near the Post Office, which she and my grandfather ran for many years, my aunt worked on the telephone exchange until a modern exchange replaced it. She went to London to work for the Post office telephones.
My father was born at the post office along with his 2 brothers.

He, with one brother, married my mother and her sister at a double wedding in 1948 at the parish church.

I can remember my mother taking me to school in the next village, Eccles, on the back of her bike. as the Quidenham village school closed in the 1940s.

I was baptised at the church on Boxing Day 1954 with holly around the font. Was married along with my cousins at the church of St Andrew's and our children have been baptised there; also some married there.
My father with his two brothers where in the choir, my father lived there all his life and sadly he and one brother lay at rest in the church yard.

When I married I lived in the village we celebrated the Queens jubilee and Diana & Charles wedding on the village green, Also Annual Fete every year my mother always did teas.
So a family village and lots of memories.

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