Another Great Totham Memory.

A Memory of Great Totham.

Although I only lived at Great Totham as a young boy for 7 years , 48 years after moving to the Cotswolds because of my fathers work I still have a fair few memories.

We moved to Foster road in 1965 from Chelmsford the year when all these great photos were taken, shame there are not more.

I remember playing with friends in the ditch area by the brook at the bottom of Catchpole Lane just to the right of this picture and making a Den, playing further along the brook on the bridge on Harvey road and a young boy falling off the bridge into the brook poor lad, falling off my bike where the road turns left to go into Foster road in the centre of the photo, a guy who had an Aston Martin DB5 at one of the houses going back up Catchpole Lane, a friend of mine who lived in the first house at the top of the Lane etc. I liked going regularly to Marvins I think it was, the farm shop between Catchpole Lane and Prince of Wales road to buy sweets, remarkably I stayed slim ! Sorry random memories.

Before Primary school I used to go to the playschool at a big house down Hall road it must have been where mum had to prize my fingers off the steering wheel of the car to get me in each morning.

Like Peter Saunders who wrote the first memory I attended the Primary school by the Pit although not at the same time by the sound of it , as when I was there Mr Hilliard was head and his wife Jo, I believe seems to ring a bell, didn't like her because she didn't give me much toilet paper on one occasion !!! I think they had a tuck shop there where I had some Marshmallow tea cakes sometimes, also sports days in the Pit and going through the hedge from the school grounds to get there. Other teachers there were a Mrs Archer who didn't like me and a Mrs Morris I think.

I moved with and stayed at the school to it's new and still present location for about 1 to 2 years before moving away.

Happy memories

From Phil Rignall.