All My Yesterdays.

A Memory of Corringham.

On the right is a bus stop and the Bungalow behind this stop housed the village dentist, Deitrich. I remember when he was diagnosed with TB and we all had to have chest xrays.
Further down on the right are two large trees. The largest one was seen to be very unsteady one windy day. The Council had been called and they were in attendance assessing the situation. Suddenly it was apparent that the tree was about to fall and they quickly brought all traffic to a halt. The tree though fell on one of the cars they had stopped, tragically killing the driver, a refinery worker on his way home.
Many years later, in 1977 in fact, I was training to be a Psychiatric Nurse at Warley Hospital, Brentwood
I was in my second year and was placed on an acute ward, My mentor was a man called Joe who I became great friends with. Subsequently, I discovered, it was Joe's father who had been sadly killed by that fallen tree in Lampits Hill all those years earlier.