[Rose Wilson]

My mum was the cook at Bank House in the early fifties until it was sold off. I remember going there every day after school and sitting in the corner of the kitchen playing with my dolls ha ha. I remember clearly the fabulous staircase and the billiard room and I was once allowed to go upstairs and see one of the guest bedrooms and its ajoining bathroom and I can still remember the polished brass pipes and the victorian shower canopy over the bath....I was only twelve when it was sold and dont have any photographs.....I remember the garden parties, the stream running through the grounds and the little bridge over it...and I remember being taken through to sit next to Lady Higham, she asked me some things...dont remember what was said but I remember her high necked, long full skirted black dress ... so very victorian....