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Canuc
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Sgt John William Hetherington 1866-1934
Bexley - Parkers Farm Dairy
« on: Saturday 12 September 09 19:53 UTC (UK) »
Might anyone have any idea where this diary/farm was?

Tom and Bob Knott (brothers) and Bob's brother-in-law John (Jack) George Sewell (my GGF) all delivered milk from here in the early 1900's.

My mother recalls being taken for walks across fields by her JGS her GF in the North Cray Road / Vicarage Road direction and being told stories of various events (a relative being killed by a bull - haven't got to the bottom of that yet) believes the dairy might have been in that direction.

I've been to the local archives at the library on Townley Road, Bexleyheath but found nothing in the directories or maps.

Any suggestions?

Many thanks
Canuc
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Re: Bexley - Parkers Farm Dairy
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 13 September 09 02:02 UTC (UK) »
I suppose it depends from which direction your Mum was walking.

I used to live in Hill Crescent in the 60's. Ok I know some time after you are likely to be talking about. There was one field immediatly below us which was given to wheat etc. i.e. no cattle or dairy. It now appears from Google to be totally overgrown and abandoned. However on the other side (left) of Vicarage Road, if you are looking towards Northcray Road from Hill Crescent  were a number of stables and I think a farm on the corner which later became a riding stables. The road/ track as it was in those days ran up to Mount Mascal and on into the Forestry Commission. Could this be where your mother is thinking of.  Huh

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Canuc
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Re: Bexley - Parkers Farm Dairy
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 13 September 09 09:04 UTC (UK) »
Jackie,

You've described something I wasn't aware of, so yes its a possibility. My problem is that the recollection I'm trying to unravel has never been particularly clear.

Mr Harry Smith ran his business out of Parkers Farm Dairy - that I get from a Kentish Times newspaper cutting of the 1960's. My mother's stories are drawn from a Sunday afternoon walk with granddad memory well. She remembers visiting stabled horses with him, and walking through fields (and there are still many of those to be seen from the train arriving from Albany Park).

I never lived there after age 4 and my mother since age 27. Since the early 60's I've been back and visited more often than she which means our memories collide. I'll try her on the stables>

Many thanks
Canuc
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