Bakers Daughter Born Vj Day 1945

A Memory of Hartest.

My parents ran the bakery in Hartest and I and my sister were born there,as a child I had to help in the bakery and deliver bread around the village green,we had a lovely childhood in Hartest,went to GFS at Miss Wellers at the top of Harvest Hill,the gospel rooms opposite the cemetery and church on Sunday.we lived in the lovely old red brick house at the bottom of the green.went to the old primary school,remember making lovely slides in the ice,freezing milk,and chilblains,having to run behind my dads van with an old sack to put under the wheels when it was icy.wonderful Christmas with everyone bringing their turkeys and geese to be cooked in the bread oven.i loved acting in the school plays in the institute and singing in the choir.i also remember finding a lovely little stone church that the prisoners of war had built in chadacre wood.Miss Craig was head teacher and Mrs.Harvey,and Miss Mary Truin.Mrs Ward was a lovely lady who ran the girl guides and Mrs.Cooper at the top of the green ran the Brownies.of course I was in both it was such a lively village with cricket on the green,and circus and fetes.and a huge bonfire on Nov.5th.Two pubs.The Crown and The Bell down the Row,and Burdens shop in the Row,Crowthers Shop opposite the stone on the green and the post office ran by Miss Redgrave and her brother Ted delivered the letters .I remember a rail on the green that we used to play on and I still have a scar on my knee from falling off.

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