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VILLAGE HALL NEW SERIES - INTERESTING LIVES

The Village Hall team wishes all our supporters a
very happy new year.
Regular readers may

Hall Bookings remember this request
VILLAGE in the December
If you want to book the magazine.
Village Hall please HALL I am delighted that we
contact our booking have already had two
Secretary Joanna Syrett articles submitted, but
Joanna.syrett@tiscali.co.uk or telephone 01929 it would be terrific if
472037 she will also be able to show you around some more were
if you are not familiar with the building. forthcoming - I know

that there are many
suitable ‘candidates’
out there!
Please do get in
touch.

The Hall has two rooms to offer
for hire the picture show how
these can look when set out.
David Gray
The Lower room is £10 an hour
and the upper Hall is £15 an My first recollection of life - at the age of 2 in 1944 - was in an Anderson Shelter
hour. on the main Eastbourne Road just under the Hill on which Kenley Airport (Spitfire
Station) was sited. That road was nicknamed “Doodlebug Alley” as the V1 flying
bombs used that airspace on their way to bomb Croydon and London.

They made a very strange purring noise from their engines as they passed
overhead. My Scottish maternal grandmother, along with my mother, my
paternal grandmother and older sister were hiding in the Shelter. My Scottish

When you respond to advertisers, do please tell them granny was holding me in her arms in the doorway. I was crying at the sound of
the “doodlebug’s engine.
you saw their advert in this magazine - it helps them “ Och wee mannie, dinnae fash yersel If ye can hear them yur OK, It’s when the
sound stops that ye haf tae get yur heid doon”
monitor the effectiveness of their advert and helps us I survived the war. At 13, I helped out at weekends in a local Country House that
generate more advertising revenue!! bred and showed Great Danes. The House was adjacent to a disused Chalk pit. A
large tree growing close to the edge had a swing made from a fireman’s rope
with a large knot on the end. The idea was to grab the rope, jump onto the knot
and swing out into the abyss. Guess who slipped off the rope at the extent of the
arc?
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