memories
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Boyhood in Chesham and Howard Brothers woodware factory
Read more →Joe was brought up in George Street and attended Newtown Infants School, then White Hill Junior Boys, lastly Germain Street. While at Germain Street he remembers collecting rosehips. These were used to make rosehip syrup, an important source of Vitamin C, in the school’s kitchens. Here they cooked the meals for all the Chesham schools. […]
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My life until I left school – Maurice Payne
Read more →I was born in Blucher Street. At a very early age we moved to 127 Waterside. My family consisted of Mother, Father and my brother, two years older than me. The cottage was very small; downstairs had just one living room and a small scullery. Upstairs had two bedrooms, my brother and I slept in […]
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Hilda Flello: one hundred years in Chesham
Read more →Hilda was born in 1906, the middle child of seven, to Arthur Edward King and Elizabeth Kate (nee Channer). Arthur and Elizabeth had their first 3 children in Church Street and three further children were born in Alexander Street. Then in 1914 they moved into one of the first council houses in Chesham, in Brockhurst […]
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Memories of Chesham in the 1930s and 1940s
Read more →My happiest days that I remember were from 1936 to 1939. I lived at 8 Market Square, where my father had a furniture and general store, later a men’s outfitters. His father John had come to Chesham from London around 1890 and started a business at 44 Church Street. My bedroom was on the top […]
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Ethel May (‘Effie’ / ‘Eff’) Collins (nee Aris).
Read more →Effie was born 13th August 1917 at 303 Hivings Hill to William Allen Aris & Louisa Jane, nee Foster. Many years later, around the late 1940s, the house was renumbered 25 Hivings Hill, as the original numbering had been continuous along Bellingdon Road & onto Hivings Hill. William’s great-uncle (his paternal grandmother’s brother) was Lloyd […]
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Growing up in Pednor in the 1940s
Read more →Pauline was born in 1936 to Eric Stanley Bates and Jessica Catherine Griffin. Her mother was the daughter of S H Griffin, wholesale brush manufacturer at the Chapel Works in Townfield Yard in Chesham. Her father owned three plots of land in Pednor. He sold two of them and on the third had a bungalow […]
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A childhood in Waterside, Chesham in the 1940s
Read more →It was the May of 1947. There had been a late fall of snow and I was playing in the garden. I looked up and saw a young man in RAF uniform watching me. It was my father. That was my first meeting with him at the age of 5. He had come home after […]
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Chesham Cottage hospital
Read more →In the early 1940’s I worked as a nurse in Chesham Cottage Hospital. The children’s ward was small and equipped for 5 children. There were 3 medium-sized iron bedsteads and two iron cots with rails all round. At the side of the room was a door into a small room which had one lavatory, a […]
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My memories
Read more →Year and place of birth I was born 21st June 1920, my name was Daisy Rose Puddephatt and I was born in “The Vale” a very small village just outside Chesham with about 24 houses and one Public House “The Black Horse” which was run by a Mr and Mrs Wakefield whom had three children, […]
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Chesham Vale in the twenties and thirties
Read more →I was born in 1920, in “The Vale” a very small village just outside Chesham with about 24 houses and one Public House “The Black Horse”. Also in the village we had a small chapel which we would go to every Sunday afternoon. Sunday school teachers would walk from Chesham to teach us. I had […]