Compton, The Swan Hotel c.1955
Photo ref: C441026BX
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Anybody have any info on Evelyn Hayward? Is she still in Compton? I meet her again when I was about eighteen; I used to babysit her first born child, I think she was named Pippa.
I remember singing in the church choir, Evelyn Hayward was in it and I remember her telling me to sing higher, then telling me to come back down again. I didn't stay in it for long, can't remember why. I also remember the Rev Ian Paisley, a short grey haired man with a very loud voice.
As boys of the village along with a good few footballers at the rec, sitting on the swings was a must. I sang in the church choir and also delivered the milk around the village with a Jack Windebank from the dairy. I lived with Mr Harry Pinfold first in Horn Street and later in Burrell Road. I left the village in 1951 and went back to live with my parents at a village called Litchfield and went to ...see more