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Hawkhurst Today
It's funny you should mention the Woods Butchers, I'm living in Hawkhurst now and am only 19 but I'm friends with the daughter who owns Wood Butchers, Emily Wood. I do enjoy living in Hawkhurst, it is interesting to look at the old pictures and see what it used to look like, probably a lot nicer in my opinion. I'm not a fan of the new appliances shop on the corner where there used to be a Circle-C which then changed into an Alldays which then closed down when the Budgens opened. I did enjoy the sweets shop when I was younger though, it's a shame that closed down. Last edited: 17/11/2008 09:29 by Helen Cripps |
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Year: 1950
Growing Up In Hawkhurst
I have so many happy memories of growing up in Hawkurst in the 1940s /1950s and although Hawkhurst has changed a lot over the years it's a lovely place to visit. I still remember all the shops along the colonnade and the moor. Buss the bakers at the moor and little sweet shop just round the corner and 'Pipers' the sweet shop was owned by my friend's grandparents. We used to go hop picking as well. I also got married in St Laurence's Church which I remember having a new roof as it was bombed during the war. Maureen Smith (nee Wenham). Last edited: 06/11/2008 09:13 |
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Year: 1982
My Home Hawkhurst
I grew up in hawkhurst , i lived in gills green in hawkhurst , hawkhurst has a close community everybody knew everybody , most familys that lived there had lived there for years even generations . my dads family had lived there for many years . i have very fond memorys of hawkhurst while i was growing up , the tractors going up and down the road all day . where i lived there were farms all around us. I could smell fresh wood from the wood factory just up the road , i would wake up to the sound of sheep barring in the fields just across the road and birds singing . The kind of thing you would see on the television now advertisted as a country retreat . Miles of beautiful countryside. I remember the village had a happy shopper shop , boldocks the baker`s where once a week my mum would buy the best cheese salad roll i`ve ever had . I remember the jumble sales in the victoria hall and waiting for the raffle at the end keeping my fingers crossed in case we won a lovely home-made cake. but most of all i remember the magical feeling of hawkhurst and in my view the most stunning village in kent with a lot of history, enough to keep anyone busy for a long time. I moved out of hawkhurst when i was 16 and moved back with my own family then, when i was 19 lived there until i was 21 and regretfully moved away again, i have been back many times since visiting friends and family ,and have seen how hawkhurst has changed over the years , today there is only one original family business still running there and thats woods the butchers up the moor . its sad to see so much change , but hawkhurst has grown. Hawkhurst will always beautiful to me . Posted: 18/11/2007 00:57 by Susanne Jones |
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