Kingsley, 1906

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My Nan Kirby (Cozens and nee Annetts) lived in a bungalow in Woodfield. Memories of visiting her include sitting in front of a roaring fire with a large central dining table with a soft red tablecloth overhanging it - a great place for children to hide under the table whilst the adults talked. A figure of Winston Churchill on the mantelpiece who actually looked remarkably like Nan’s husband Bill ...see more

In the long hot summer, and drought, of 1976 I remember being able to walk across the pond floor. It was just a mass of dried, cracked earth. That summer was so, so hot

1948,the year I started at Kingsley School. We lived in Oakhanger, but at Shortheath Common end so to kingsley I went on the back of my mothers bike. Dinner came in hay boxes on the back of a landrover from wherever - lots of stews and cabbage. In the winter, our milk was put next to the large fire at the end of the room to thaw out. Father Christmas came every Christmas and gave us all a present. We would go ...see more

I went to Kingsley School as an infant in 1978 and left before it closed, at some time in the 1980s. I remember the headmistress Mrs Morris, who became Mrs Vincent, who smoked in the classroom!, and the wicked infant teacher Mrs Caine who used to have a replica gun lighter in her draw and large knife to sharpen the pencils, she would threaten us all that she was going to shoot us or stab us! ...see more