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Edmund Fifield

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Re: The Flat, Lodge Road, Hockley
« Reply #11 on: August 09, 2018, 07:12:45 PM »
In the late 40s my wife her name was Wathen went for a good few years to the Sunday School in the church on the flat,she still as the little Bible she was given for good attendance.Still keeps it by her side of the bed.
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astoness

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Re: The Flat, Lodge Road, Hockley
« Reply #12 on: August 09, 2018, 07:25:24 PM »
In the late 40s my wife her name was Wathen went for a good few years to the Sunday School in the church on the flat,she still as the little Bible she was given for good attendance.Still keeps it by her side of the bed.


i think thats wonderful edmund :)  would this be the church


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Edmund Fifield

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Re: The Flat, Lodge Road, Hockley
« Reply #13 on: August 09, 2018, 09:09:58 PM »
Sure is Lyn.
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Re: The Flat, Lodge Road, Hockley
« Reply #14 on: August 09, 2018, 11:24:51 PM »
thought it would be the one....times i have walked past it when our mom used to drag me shopping down the flat...a memory that has always stuck with me is seeing what then seemed liked 100s of rabbits hanging upside down outside one of the shops

Edmund Fifield

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Re: The Flat, Lodge Road, Hockley
« Reply #15 on: August 09, 2018, 11:29:31 PM »
When we started courting in1958 at Xmas she used to take me on the flat  and see all the chickens and turkeys hanging up outside the butchers what a lovely time that was so different from today
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Re: The Flat, Lodge Road, Hockley
« Reply #16 on: August 09, 2018, 11:49:42 PM »
happy times for me edmund...a different life a different world and i would not have changed it for all the tea in china...and i love me tea ;D

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Re: The Flat, Lodge Road, Hockley
« Reply #17 on: August 11, 2018, 04:16:54 PM »
The Hole in the Wall....
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Edmund Fifield

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Re: The Flat, Lodge Road, Hockley
« Reply #18 on: August 11, 2018, 04:24:38 PM »
My future wife's AuntyBetty Overy had the fish& chip shop for many years on the Flat on the cross road by Ford St.
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Re: The Flat, Lodge Road, Hockley
« Reply #19 on: August 11, 2018, 06:05:21 PM »
edmund i know someone who lived in ford st who most likely used your aunt bettys chippy...they knew how to cook chips in those days O0


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Re: The Flat, Lodge Road, Hockley
« Reply #20 on: August 11, 2018, 06:32:48 PM »
My wife's friend Pam Harvey lived by the Off License,she married Johnny Davis who lived down towards Whitmore St
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Re: The Flat, Lodge Road, Hockley
« Reply #21 on: August 11, 2018, 06:52:05 PM »
and my gt aunt lucy lived in nearby piddock st edmund...small world


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