Ice On The Pond

A Memory of Cippenham.

I remember the years that the pond used to freeze over in the winter, must have been the early 1960s, or maybe that winter of 1962-63 when we built igloos on the green opposite the cricket pitch, my, that was cold!
Also my dad's allotment was in behind the pond, down a little track just the other side, probably left of where this pic was taken...happy days.
Who remembers Nevilles yard? When the horses and ponies where fed, the rats used to run along the beams to get at the food...I used to love that place, I always wanted a kitchen like they had with chickens sitting on the kitchen table - what bliss!
Annie Harvey (nee Gatward)