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from Pam's hand-written notes of the conversation with her mother. If anyone can add further details or dates to this information please let me know |
The shop at 2 Main Street was owned by Mr Wallace before Ted Barker took it on.
The Cricket Club is colours were red, green and yellow. They played on Cow Field at Primrose Hill Farm in "proper uniform", tunics, not the white jumpers used these days.
Fetes were held down Pymoor Lane. They were run by Pymoor Sports Committee. The band was fetched from Manea, across the wash, by foot and taken back by one of my uncles, Pert Rogers and Walt Bailey.
My uncle Cyril Rogers worked at the bakery on horse and cart before vans. They fetched the grists. Joe Archer ground it into flour. The offal went back to farmers for cattle.
The main crops were wheat, mangels and potatoes.
The shop which was Saberton's was the blacksmiths until tractors were used then there was no more use for the blacksmiths so Hugh Saberton bought it.
The main road ran as far as the first four council houses down Straight Furlong. The Starlings, Motts and Pearsons lent their men to fetch stone from the railway sidings to extend the road.
A Sunday School outing used to pick up 50-70 people by four wheeled tractors and take them to Littleport station to catch a waiting train to Yarmouth. [I understand this may be an error as Black Bank station was traditionally used as the starting point for village trips - Greg Chapman]
Joe Saberton had 15 children. [Joan Saberton has reported that this is not true. Joe only had 10 children. But Joan was one of twelve! - Greg Chapman]
They think electricity was brought to the village in 1955-56. [Other villagers remember this as 1953 - Greg Chapman]
The house that used to be Roger Parsons Farm which is now Pymoor Fishing Pits was owned by Mr Upshee. The walls were 18 inches thick. The wood, bricks and peg tiles came on barges pulled by horses along the river. At the top was a fish pond and a room where hooks hung for pig, bullock as they were self sufficient. Emma Barker worked there. The younger children also went to school there
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