Outsiders!
A Memory of Fyfield.
My family moved to Cannons Green from London in 1953. We were viewed with some suspicion as there were few outsiders at that time. Who were we, why had we come there?! When I started at the primary school in 1956 my dad would sometimes pick me up in our car. Other kids would usually refuse a lift at first. Gradually we were accepted. Some people remember my mum not only as a Dinner Lady but because her Yorkshire accent was memorable. We left the village in 1968 for a wonderful new life in Australia.
We had a great childhood exploring the old airfield, hanging out at the sports Pavillion, mucking about in the snow and finding ways to amuse ourselves with very few resources.
In the early days me and my sister, Susan, hung around with Christine Fogg and Susan Bretton; later it was Jenny Carrick.
Would respond to anyone who remembers us and contacts me.
Joan Johnstone (nee Harwood), Eagle Point, Victoria, Australia.
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I Started at school at Fyfield in 1955 but left a year later to go to Berbice House in Dunmow.
In my early teens, as a Saturday job, I worked at Carrick's Bakery, with a bloke called Ivor, I think. John Carrick was the Son.
I knew the Fogg family; Alby Fogg played football for Abbess Rangers/Rovers?? and the family lived at the corner of the road in Beauchamp Roding, next door to Anne Loveday. Was Trevor Christine's Brother?
It would be good to hear from you.
Cheers, Richard Monk.