Baker John

We moved into Colchester Road when the estate was first built. It was the first ever house that we lived in that had a bath! They were still building houses at the top of the road and I remember one hot summer, my younger sister and our friends got stuck in some mud, in a ditch and had to shout for help. We lost our shoes. As I was older than my sister o got a right belting, even though it was my sister that we went on to rescue. Dad used to set rabbit snares in the nearby woods and would sell what we didn’t eat. Does anybody remember the stage coach that used to come round? You paid to have a