Memories Of Life In The Village Shop

A Memory of Great Braxted.

Around 1960 I lived in the village shop with my parents and brother and our "grandmother" Molly Parr. She was not really related to us, my mother had been lodged with her when she was in the land army and they became firm friends for life.
The shop used to house the Post office and library and stocked all you could want for day to day life, even fireworks in November.
We moved out when I was five but not very far, just down the road to Mapleleaf and then later to Brookfield, a row of council houses just before you left the village.
I used to wait for the school bus outside the DuCane arms in all kinds of weather.