I lived in Arundel Road with my family from around 1950. There was a house with a lake and houseboat at the back of our land. We had to boil our water in a copper for baths, it was outside in a little outbuilding and we had to light a fire under it. Our water came from a well in the garden. I went to New Thundersley Primary and was taught by Miss Adkins. I am now living back almost in the spot where I grew up, just off Arundel Road.
The black and white photos of Arundel Road were taken when it had just been cleared for building work and the coloured ones, taken in 1976, are of the road when building work was completed. It looks a little different now as the telephone box is no longer there and the post box has been moved.
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Terry Harding was my father. Sadly he died in 1997 when I was 22 years old, not long after the death of his uncle Tom who lived next door to my grandparents.
Trevor, my dad’s youngest brother moved away from the area, but Michael (Mick) remained local.
The house Green Oaks was built by my grandfather Alf Harding, and lived in by my grandparents (Alf and Vi) until their deaths. They built the house next door to ‘Ashwood’ – a small bungalow built and occupied by my grandmother’s parents (Thomas and Mabel) and their son (Vi’s brother Tom).
I have happy childhood memories of weekends spent at my grandparents house, climbing trees, running around the field behind my uncles house.
It’s nice that people remember my family.
Terry was my grandfather, I would have loved to have met him and talked about the farm they used to live on.
Steven Barnett you mentioned the Harding family and yes I knew them all. Their grandfather (Tom Arnold) lived in a little bungalow next to my mum and dad’s and their mother was the daughter of Tom Arnold. She had a house built on part of her father’s land known as Green Oaks. Terry unfortunately passed away on the same ward as my dad some years ago. I am not sure, but I know Michael lived in Orchard Road (off Arundel Road) and played in a band. Not sure if he is still there though. I knew them quite well when I was growing up in Arundel Road when it was little more than a track.
I have no comment except I wonder if anyone has any recollection of the Harding family. They built a house on the left as you face west, it was built around 1960, three brothers, Terry, Michael and Trevor.
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