Comments on: Another Chipperfield Memory http://www.chipperfield.org.uk/2004/08/15/another-chipperfield-memory.html Mon, 14 May 2012 20:06:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Dave Lee http://www.chipperfield.org.uk/2004/08/15/another-chipperfield-memory.html/comment-page-1#comment-55 Dave Lee Sat, 02 Oct 2004 12:13:38 +0000 http://www.chipperfield.org.uk/?p=4165#comment-55 My father, Archibald Lee, was born & brought up in Chipperfield but moved to Isleworth, West London in about 1937. During part of 1944 we stayed with my father's sister & her family, Albert & Alice Orchard in Alexandra Road, Chipperfield. I was five years old but have distinct but disjointed memories of that time. I don't remember you John, but I do remember the "Doodlebug" falling at Whippendell. I also remember other "Doodlebugs" flying over Chipperfield, one being chased by a Lockheed Lightning fighter. I remember attending the village school where we used slates to write on & various other memories that were a revelation for a small city boy such as stacking the stooks of corn in the fields & the outside loo! My cousin, Roy Lee, who was also born & brought up in Chipperfield told me about this site. He remembers you John & I am sure he has firmer memories of Chipperfield than I have. He would like to make contact but has had difficulties replying, I will tell him of my success & I am sure he will get in touch. Regards Dave Lee My father, Archibald Lee, was born & brought up in Chipperfield but moved to Isleworth, West London in about 1937. During part of 1944 we stayed with my father’s sister & her family, Albert & Alice Orchard in Alexandra Road, Chipperfield. I was five years old but have distinct but disjointed memories of that time. I don’t remember you John, but I do remember the “Doodlebug” falling at Whippendell. I also remember other “Doodlebugs” flying over Chipperfield, one being chased by a Lockheed Lightning fighter. I remember attending the village school where we used slates to write on & various other memories that were a revelation for a small city boy such as stacking the stooks of corn in the fields & the outside loo!
My cousin, Roy Lee, who was also born & brought up in Chipperfield told me about this site. He remembers you John & I am sure he has firmer memories of Chipperfield than I have. He would like to make contact but has had difficulties replying, I will tell him of my success & I am sure he will get in touch.
Regards
Dave Lee

]]> By: Wizz http://www.chipperfield.org.uk/2004/08/15/another-chipperfield-memory.html/comment-page-1#comment-54 Wizz Tue, 24 Aug 2004 16:56:02 +0000 http://www.chipperfield.org.uk/?p=4165#comment-54 Don't know what Chipperfield was like in the forties but it is still a great place to live. Yes, there are still farms with wheat and cows and there are also a few sheep locally. But no pigs and, just recently no chickens as new regulations have made the sale of eggs uneconomic at the one farm concerned. And they never ran around loose. The cherry trees still exist but are large and the birds seem to get the cherries before the humans! Mind you I don't think the humans want them! But there is a large crab apple tree at the edge of the woods and it is known for people to pick the apples and make crab apple jelly. Blackberry bushes are rampant on the common and are being picked about now although the crop isn't all that good in quality terms but the quantities are there. Unfortunately wild flowers by the roadside are very rare. So you see some things that you remember are still here. Don’t know what Chipperfield was like in the forties but it is still a great place to live.

Yes, there are still farms with wheat and cows and there are also a few sheep locally. But no pigs and, just recently no chickens as new regulations have made the sale of eggs uneconomic at the one farm concerned. And they never ran around loose.

The cherry trees still exist but are large and the birds seem to get the cherries before the humans! Mind you I don’t think the humans want them! But there is a large crab apple tree at the edge of the woods and it is known for people to pick the apples and make crab apple jelly.

Blackberry bushes are rampant on the common and are being picked about now although the crop isn’t all that good in quality terms but the quantities are there.

Unfortunately wild flowers by the roadside are very rare.

So you see some things that you remember are still here.

]]>