Great Totham, Catchpole Lane c.1965
Photo ref: G99001
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A Selection of Memories from Great Totham

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Great Totham

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Although I only lived at Great Totham as a young boy for 7 years , 48 years after moving to the Cotswolds because of my fathers work I still have a fair few memories. We moved to Foster road in 1965 from Chelmsford the year when all these great photos were taken, shame there are not more. I remember playing with friends in the ditch area by the brook at the bottom of Catchpole Lane just to the ...see more
I attended the primary school, just down the Maldon Road from the garage in the photo, which was run by Mr Holmes.  The sweet-shop behind the pumps was popular with us kids!  Headmaster of the primary school was Mr Herbert Lewis, a Welshman known to us as "Pop".  He maintained discipline - and our attention! - with a bundle of rulers held together with elastic-bands; when applied to the backside they ...see more