Category: Memories
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Along with much of southern England, the great storm on the night of 15th October 1987 lead to significant damage and many trees being lost. Photographs of the Drive in Maresfield Park show many large trees down. Do you have more photos or memories of the 1987 storm? Let us know at mailto:history@maresfield.org
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Villagers were encouraged to make the troops feel ‘at home’ in both World Wars. The picture above shows the Hollobon family entertaining three soldiers at their home at Five Ash Down about 1917. Mr Francis Hollobon is wearing his Local Defence Volunteers uniform. Young Frank Hollobon (front left) is sporting the cap of the soldier…
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by Gordon Marsh. First published in 2003 by Maresfield Conservation Group. IN JULY 1928 the Marsh family — Dad, Mum, Marjorie and I — moved from a tied cottage on a farm in Laughton to the then growing village of Maresfield. It was a good move so far as I was concerned. It had been…
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Betty Turner, 1991 Village life has never stood still. Villages have been built and re-built countless times as part of the evolution of the rural landscape. This surely must be true of Maresfield, when the long-awaited Bypass opened in November, 1989. The wheel has indeed turned full circle in the 160 years since Sir John…
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Betty Turner, 1991 I arrived at Maresfield on 18th March, 1941 in an army vanette as my father was attached to the newly-opened D.C.R.E. office in Maresfield Park. He had managed to rent a large house and garden that had been part of the stabling block of the Manor House of Count Münster, who had…