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A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE – AND FOND MEMORIES OF HORSMONDEN
A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE – AND FOND MEMORIES OF HORSMONDEN August 2016 Earlier last week I had a trip to the village, via the Tennis Club (known in earlier days as the Sand-hole or Skid-Kids on to the Horsmonden Cricket Club/Sports Field (or ‘dog-house’ as we knew it). A popular venue for watching and/or playing football and cricket and playing around the sheep-gates used for the annual lamb sale. I wandered around the outer edge where once could be seen rows of apple trees bearing the finest Cox Orange Pippin and Worcester apples in ‘Rallings’ orchards as far as you could see. I walked over to see the man who was mowing the cricket pitch, he stopped the engine and we talked for a long time about Horsmonden and how it had developed since the war and from my perspective over the last 50 or 60 years. The gentleman was John Couchman (known as Pistol) who has lived and worked in the...