Crossways

A Memory of New Yatt.

the year would be around 1978, I know this for in this year I passed my driving test, anyway we came to live in New Yatt having moved from Wantage where I grew up, so as one can imagine was not very happy having left my friends and the area, after a long search locally, eventually my parents found a cottage they liked something my mother had always wanted, the cottage once owned by a doctor himself a background history, and his wife, was fairly run down but this had not mattered, once occupied my father set about employing a builder from a local village, name unimportant, having settled we as a family soon came known and accepted into the community, with my father trading as a Witney retailer, mother a housewife, my younger brother mixing in with village children, and for I myself visiting each day local customer within there own home,
its true I met a lot of friendly people in different villages, and in around the town, but had no less a longing with going home to Wantage, for this I had done every weekend meeting up with friends from school as well drinking in our local pubs, next door in a neighbouring cottage lived a baker who for which every Friday baked bread and cakes, we loved the homemade lardy cake that came eaten before tea time, as for the chocolate muffins so as not been to hurt his feelings mother would keep to the weekly order but feed them to our Great Dane who could not get enough of this treat,

further up the road a garage lay for where an extremely friendly family are they ran this place, I give many Thanks for there service as it is often on most days I would purchase a packet of 10 number 6 cigarettes, as well some petrol,
where it is for the road sign standing between North leigh and New Yatt its reading the words New Yatt on a white background, both captain Dyer from the Chapel house opposite, and myself together are both planted this name sign for which I do not doubt continues standing there today,

whereabouts in the year of 1982 we moved out scattering ourselves about Oxfordshire, as it is for myself I did move directly back home to the town I belonged, even so up until 1986 should it be I had continued visiting New Yatt and its local surrounding villages, until my having brought this at an end …………..

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