A Small Snapshot.

A Memory of Rush Green.

I was born at Rush Green in 1948. I suppose my memories start when I attended Rush Green Infants, then Junior School. The only teachers I remember are Mr Snow, Mr Smith and Mr Bird the Headteacher. I used to walk to school with my friends and come home also on our own, how times have changed. I lived at Leonard Avenue which is quite near Central Park and spent many hours over there playing on the swings etc. I can also remember walking to 'The Chase' which was heaven to small children, water, bushes and also there was a riding school there. I then attended Tripton Girls School and left there 1964 (hated school). I used to walk there every morning about 2 miles away, and this took us over Nanny Goat Common. Most of my teenage years were spent in and around Dagenham/Romford/Ilford as my then boyfriend who became my husband lived at Henshawe Road.