Wainscott Kent

A Memory of Wainscott.

As children after my father was invalided out of the RAF he took a gardeners/maintenance job with a Mrs Hitchcock who lived in a large house in Hollywood Lane. She owned a thatched cottage nearby where we lived. It had a huge garden and long drive. That Winter it was so deep in snow that coal lorries could not get through and we were saved when the weight of the snow brought down a large tree so we could all have heating. I had a friend whose father owned a farm opposite our cottage and their surname was Dean.I attended the village school and sometimes a man delivering by pony and trap used to give us lifts down the lane. Would be marvellous if there were any old photographs of this road as I doubt the farm and houses I knew would still be there. Nita Jenkins