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Childhood

Childhood

top: Grandma 10 months old 1934.

bottom left: Grandma during her 3 years with the WRAF.

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bottom right: Tony, Grandma’s brother. Growing up I was really privileged because I lived about 10 minutes walk to the sea and the sea shore and the sand, 5 minutes to a river and 10 minutes walk up past the field there was a lake, so even the children at school were all taught to swim because wewere allsurrounded bywater, itwas anamazing placeto live now that I can look at it from afar, with rivers and the sea and sand it was a lovely place to live.

In the field near to where we lived we dug out a play house, it was quite big, we had a fireplace in there and used to stick old wall paper up the walls, it was only a walk away from the river so we always had some water to play in.

Everything was walking distance away, we didn’t have any transport, but we never even thought about transport, we just walked everywhere.

Once my littlebrother was climbingup the locallight, a biglight at theend of the road when something near by made a big noise and he fell to the ground, I can always remember that, Tony falling out of the sky. He must of hurt himself but you didn’t complain then if you hurt yourself doing something because it’s your own fault, you should know before you start whether youtake therisk ornot. [Shelaughs] Wethought hewas dead,at least we hoped so as we’d never seen a dead person!

My Grandpa, was the grandpa of the whole estate, I used to have to cue up to talk to him sometimes, he was always surrounded by children, he used to sit near the bus stop at the top of our road, and everybody knew him, they would all go to him for advice because you knew you would get a true answer to whatever you asked. I used to feel quite proud of the fact that he was my grandpa. I don’t think people would do that these days, have everyone go and ask your grandpa. He would give you the answer that he knew you wanted, it might not be the truth but he knew you and would know what you needed to hear.

My grandmother was a house keeper for a gentleman, my lasting memory is that every Friday she would make rock cakes when she came to visit. She was a lovely old lady, she was quite posh actually.

Grandma with Grandmother Fielding & her grandfather Whitingham, the “Grandfather of the whole village”

Grandma aged 15 in 1948

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There are so many favourite places that I have visited, I’ve had quite a long life so far but usually my favourite places liked to be n have got ear water. water, either a river, a lake or the sea, I’ve always “

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