A Saturday in October walk around Hatfield Broad Oak. As a follow on from the Exhibition the previous week.
Led By Mark Ratcliff with a bundle of A4 size laminated post card views to show former times and Edna Halls adding her memories of locations and residents, we had an informative 2 hour stroll, starting at the village Pump, progressing down Cage Lane, and spotting the buildings used by Robert Lumley as the street scenes in The Gingerbread Man. After the Village Hall story, it was along Cannon’s Lane to Broad Street and the villages oldest house – the thatched Sack House. Pausing outside the Dukes Head to envisage houses that were shops and the location of the village fire pump, it was up the High Street. Past the Chapel built in 1868, the Village School with the access to the WW2 cellar air raid shelter just visible and on to two locations of doctor’s surgeries at Bury House and The Old Forge. The Chalks is the recently refurbished former Vicarage that in the 1890’s the Rev. Galpin had the top floor added to allow accommodation of his musical students and presumably some of his 600 ancient musical instruments. We finished at the old Post House with some musing that a visit to The Cock might be in order on another occasion to view its painted walls and perhaps some liquid refreshment. Well done Mark and Edna. Our next meeting will be on December 13th at 7.30pm in the Hatfield Heath URC Church Hall when Christopher Parkinson returns and will talk about ‘The Nativity in Stained Glass’. Quentin Spear
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