Recent content by rupertbear

Poddington22 Please give your dad my regards. Hope he is well.

That is part of the problem within our education system…init though?

Yeah! As I said somewhere else in this argument, it used to be such a peaceful spot in the mid 1950's. Wonder if Thomas Jackson is reading any of this stuff??

It was a wonderfully quiet place in the mid 1950's. What's gone wrong??

Hi Rosegrove. I was only 6 or 7 at the time so I'm not certain about the accuracy here but I think the Jacksons farmed at Spire Farm ( High Riley) until around 1953/4. My uncle bought it then. ( The less said about that the better!) I lived there for a short while and used to play with the...

Re: Spire farm I used to live there around 1954. I remember the tower well. It was in a hell of a state. I have seen recent pics and thought the left hand gabled building was a recent addition. This pic brings it all back. I can remember standing in the "window" helping to stack the hay in the...

I lived at High Riley Farm for a short while around 1954. Knocked around with the children at High Riley Cottages. Aileen Rogers at one end of the row and Harry and Thomas Jackson at the other end. I wonder where they all are. Harry, Thomas and I used to walk down the track and on to Plantation...