Holgate/Parish

A Memory of Matching Green.

My happy memories of staying with my nan and grandad Leeder who lived in Newman's End. However, my great grandmother Edith Parrish, her second marriage, as her first husband Charles Holgate died in the first world war. So I often visited her and my great aunts and uncles during school holidays and regularly went to the fair on the green - this happened to fall on my birthday. My mother Pamela Leeder went into labour on the 3rd October 1948, the day I was born.
I also remember Horaces garden, a feature of the village. I also went potato and pea picking on the local farm, Howards. My grandfather Ted Leeder was employed by him as a farm labourer. Most of this was the 50's and 60's.

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