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Guestbook of hailweston.org.uk
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Welcome to the Hail Weston Guest Book
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Add your entry to the Hail Weston Guest Book by emailing here.
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Norman Kitchener,
jkitchener077@btinternet.co m |
Date: 03/08/2011
Having just read the guest book entries I find that I knew must of the people mentioned.
Mf family ran the bakery and shop from the 1900's until the late 60's. As a boy I used to do the bread round in the village and know the names of most families and where they lived as entered in the book that we kept for each round, I knew Thelma Townsend , her mother, Don Fox and the Barker girls whose father l helped with his horses.
Played cricket in 'Mouse' field & later at Sharps Barns field. I remember being in the choir & the choir suppers which usually were sausage & mash cooked in dads oven.
In the village history page a third pub is mentioned. I believe that this was the theirs building down from the 'Oak' which faces what we used to call the 'Arch '.
Hope to visit village shortly.
Norman Kitchener
Date: 31/07/2011
Having just found this site I find that I knew all the people mentioned by the various contributors.
The Barker family, Don Fox, the Hacketts, Thelma & her mother etc.
My family, the Kitcheners, ran the bakery & village shop from the 1900s until late 60s.
Having helped Dad with the bread round I know the names of most inhabitants who lived in the village through the war and afterwards. Most of these names were listed in the bread.round book kept by my father.
I helped Percy Barker with Aubreys horses, as did Lenny Parren, Jim Hackett & his dad (Ben) were also horse- keepers at Church farm whilst Arthur Hancock looked after Mildrens horses.
I can remember most peoples occupations, the choir suppers, various happenings in the village like the mile of pennies, the cricket team playing in 'Mouses' & later at Sharps barns field, building the cricket pavilion with corrugated sheets etc.
Thelmas mother was a lovely lady who worked as a dental nurse & later at a care home on the Cambridge road, she cycled to work daily.
One of the Barker girls worked in a shoe shop in St.Neots.
Incidentally the village history mentions a third pub. I believe it was the house facing the 'Arch' that is three buildings down from the Royal Oak. My family owned this for some time and when they bought it there were pub like bench seating in two rooms. We let this building to the Page family before it was sold on to the Catlings.
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Lynne Bumsted, nee Fox,
BumstedL@brevardcc.edu |
Monday, February 8, 2010 7:15 PM
Hi, I'm Lynne Bumsted, nee Fox, and have just read my cousin Andrea's guest book entry and am reminded of the great times we used to have together at Hail Weston as kids. My mother, Thelma Townend was the daughter of Phyllis Johnson. She married my father, Dick Fox and moved away (all of 6 miles, maybe!) to Roxton. Dick Fox was the brother of Don Fox, Andrea Fox-Hiley's father. Both my parents are gone now, Dad in 1990 and Mum in 2000. My sister, Suzanne, now lives in Hertfordshire and on Friday I will be lucky enough to fly to London and see everyone again. I now live in Florida with my husband David and my youngest, Katie, 15, who will come with me. My son David is 27 and married to Rebekah, they live in Orlando.
Every Saturday when we were kids, the family would go over to see my Nan, Phyllis, and usually the rest of the clan, Rhoda Hackett, Don and Polly Fox, Gary and Andrea. This was after doing the weekly shopping in St. Neots, back then it was the CO-OP, don't know if it's still there. We would spend a couple of hours chatting, drinking tea and watching TV. Paky was always in the same spot in a big wooden chair by the window doing her knitting. Sometimes Dad and Uncle Don would go to the Oak for a pint (we would join them when we got a bit older!)
Every Christmas for as long as I can remember, was spent all together at Nan's house, on the corner of Pound Close and the High Street. So much fun! Our parents must have had amazing patience to put up with the amount of noise we made as we went running through the house! I remember being totally jammed around the table in Nan's living room, the fire blasting in the stove which looked like a small Aga. Cannot think of the name of that stove! There was a large clock on a shelf above that stove that had the loudest tick I've ever heard. Some Christmases my Nan had to work. She biked all the way to Little Paxton, rain or snow, on this huge bike with a basket on the front. She worked with Down's Syndrome kids and a place called Riversfield. My Mum also worked there for a time, I think maybe before she married my Dad. We were always really disappointed when Nan had to work Christmas Day!
When Nan and her mother, Packy, lived in Crown Gardens, I remember Packy's husband, my great grandfather, Ben, feeding the chickens in the back garden. They always had fresh eggs and at Christmas a nice chubby chicken. I remember my Nan cleaning the chickens in the kitchen. Didn't smell so good! I also remember Ben cycling down to St. Neots station and returning with a crate of chirping little chicks which he would raise in the back.
Another of my favorite memories is going to Hail Weston woods on Good Friday. We always found flowers, violets, I think, and made little bundles to take home to Nan and Packy. I can still smell the spring air! I could go on and on!
Thank you very much!
Lynne Bumsted
Palm Bay, FL 32909
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John E Chopping
je.chopping@btinternet.co m
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008 5:17 PM
Hi there, I am a resident of Hail Weston.. At 20, high street. I would like to express my concern about the ever increasing speed of traffic coming through the village, especially in the narrow bottle neck around the Crown Close area. There are usually a few vehicles parked on the road at this point. Which can make viewing up and down the high street difficult.
When i leave my driveway each day.. i have to have my wits about me and pray that nothing is coming, because i can`t always see down the high street because of those parked vehicles. I have had a couple of near misses already because traffic still comes speeding through, and i fear it`s only a matter of time before we have an incident out here, unless some kind of traffic calming is introduced.
My daughter in law had a very close encounter after dropping off my grandaughter (3 days a week) a few weeks ago. And she can verify my every word. I may be retired. But I`m not an old moaner, and i do think if action is not taken quickly..we are going to have an accident sooner rather than later. I hope this letter is taken very seriously..
Many thanks. John E Chopping..
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Andrea Fox on behalf of Don Fox,
foxhiley@googlemail.com |
Friday, October 3, 2008 6:20 PM
I am writing this on behalf of my father, Don Fox, who lived in Hail Weston from 1949 to 2000, when he came to live with myself and husband Paul in Yorkshire. Thanks to Liz, the dynamo Owen nee Creek who now lives in the High street,who sends dad the Parish magazine and Council news letter we found this website. Mum, Pollie Fox and dad lived on Kimbolton Road, in the house that Elizabeth English and her family later lived in. Mum and dad lived with my Grandparents, Rhoda (Packy) and Ben Hacket ( Keith Hacket's grandparents, hello cousin). My uncle Jim and auntie Minie had moved to another house in the village, and auntie Phyllis (Dilly) still lived with my Grandparents.Mum and dad moved to 133 High Street in 1951, and lived there until Mum died in 1998, and Dad came to live with us. I was born in the house on Kimbolton road, dad says he remembers Joan Barnet telling him of thr great event!, as he was coming home from work.My Brother, Gary is not a native of the village, as he was born a long way away away, in Paxton Park, which we think was in Little Paxton.
We have been looking at the photographs, particilarly of the ford road and the brook, as dad had an allotment there for many years. He was also pleased to see the silver birch trees along the ford road, as he grew them from seed on his allotment,and the Parish Council planted them, as part of a tree planting scheme, I think it was in 1973.
Dad was on the Parish Coucil in the 1950's when the finances were raised for the Playing field, at the end of Newtown, where we used to hold the village school sports day, (I bet I can stll beat Nicky Green over 100yds!.) On the Council at the time, dad remembers, Peter Davy, Tom Cobbold, Bernard Adlam, Frank Wiles, Nelly Ions and Wally Page, who kept the old post office with his wife ( we can't remember her name).
Dad is 83, and pretty well, he remembers many people from Hail Weston, and still speaks regularly to Sally and Aubry Scarr, Mick Kisgeretz, Liz and Cliff Owen. We remember all of the people who have signed the guest book and have very much enjoyed reading the entries. Could any one tell dad if the red May tree, that used to flower so beautifully down the little hill near the pumping station opposite the allotments is still there?
Dad fondly remembers many people, but wanted to mention Vic, and Cath and Ken and Edna Ions and their children Neil, Terry and Joy. Richard Schultz, Frannie Ghurka and Hans Koch, Bob and Beryl Handcock and Barry their son Dennis and Edwina Green, Frank and Marie Anderson, and Vince and Venessa and John, Mary and Michael Murray. We have both realy enjoyed looking at the site and reading the entries, I am sure we will look again and hopefully read more interesting news from past and present Hail Westonites
Andrea Fox
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Richard Mayhew
rjm44@tiscali.co.uk |
19/11/2007 from 80-42-61-190.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com
Revisited Hail Weston for the first time in 40 years, along with my Mother Doreen Barker (Percy and Alice Barkers daughter) who was born and lived in the village with her Sister Daphnie at "Pages Farm". We met up with old friends, Ann-Marie Hamilton, Joe and Stella Arnold and Hanns who my Grandfathers worked with on Aubreys Farm. I remember visiting every few weeks in my youth along with my parents and sister and spent many school holidays there, riding Ann-Marie and her sister Catherine ponies Maxi and Charlie (not so much Charlie) walking down Dog Hole to the Ford, picking up some sherbert from Mrs Kitcheners shop or Mrs Carters village shop, collecting bluebells from the woods with my Grandmother, and Parents and playing at Bulls Farm where we used to chat with Hanns on his garden. Happy times. A huge thank you for Ann-Marie, for a lovely day.
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Elizabeth DiRocco nee English
diroccoelizabeth@yahoo.co m |
15/09/2007 from 31-187.200-68.tampabay.res.rr.com
I grew up in Hail Weston first at 12 Pound Close and then 29 Kimbolton Road. Have lived in the USA for 41 years. Went to the village school and then to Huntingdon Grammar school. Parrens, Hacketts, Harts, Boltons, Reynolds and Hancocks were all there then. Seems like the village has grown considerably over the years. Mt Mom and Dad moved to Brampton about 23 years ago. Mom Ivy English passed away this past April. Would like to hear from anyone from the old village if they are around.
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graham harris
grahamprop3@yahoo.co.uk |
29/06/2007 from 88-107-93-198.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com
Both my wife and I have been friends of the palmer family for many tears and were most upset to learn of Barbaras passing
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Alisa Barker
abarker2003@postmaster.c o.uk |
07/05/2007 from 81-179-86-68.dsl.pipex.com
Hi,
I'm researching the Barker family who lived in Hail weston in the 19th century. I'd love to know if there are any Barkers left in Hail Weston. Also, does anyone know who Barker Close was named after? I believe there was a priest by the name of Barker or Barcar in Hail Weston in the 16th century. Please drop me an email if you have any info,
Thanks
Alisa
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jacky thornton
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02/09/2006 from 10.8.124.81
thankyou for the pictures but why didn't you include the first bridge or the playing field
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jacky thornton
bbup@nidhog.com |
02/09/2006 from 10.8.124.81
was born in the village 43 years ago lived there all my life until I got married my mum still lives there to this day on newtown she was also born in the village as was my grandfather they was born near where the old shop was and I still can remember when the old post office was still there went back home a few years ago and noticed that there was a lot more houses where I never thought there was before namely britains cow shed in the high street my grandfather used to take me there to see the cows and we used to get conkers out of his garden I remember so many family's from the village the scarr's lewis's we had so much fun there If there is someone from the village who remembers my family the thornton's please e-mail me at bbup@nidhog.com thanks
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sue prince
sue-prince@supanet.com |
15/06/2006 from 86.112.184.254
was born in the village 39 years ago , married and settled in village until 2000, then moved miles away to Great staughton. Still have lots of friends there and frequent the Royal Oak on occasions, good luck with the new website it looks great!!
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Caeli Leonard
cdleonard@btinternet.com |
23/03/2006 from eagle.lakenheath.af.mil
Hello,
My family used to live at #61 Hight street, on the corner of Orchard close about 22 years ago. My two borthers are Arron and Michael, sister are Sam and Paula. I was good friends with Luke and MAtthew who lived near the playing field.
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Martin Baughan
martin.baughan@hailwesto n.org.uk |
22/11/2005.
First Guestbook message from Martin Baughan.
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