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Wendy has just sent me the following query, which is really more appropriate to the web site
Our Hertford and Ware (associated with
Hertfordshire Memories) but some of you may know the area around Ware better than I do and be able to help. She says:
I wonder if you can help me? As a child I lived on the banks of the River Lea
in a couple of old gypsy caravans. This was about 1944. I think the area was
called the Brickfields. I don't remember any evidence of bricks, but it had
certainly been a rubbish dump - probably during Victorian times, as our chickens
were always unearthing clay pipe-stems and bowls, and tiny china dolls-heads and
legs. We were living there during the 1946/47(?) winter which was very cold
and the river froze over.
Last year I returned to
England and made a fleeting visit to Ware to try to find the whereabouts of the
site of my caravan home. Without success. Although we walked alongside the
river from the lock, past the playing fields, and on, nothing served to jog my
memory.
Can you throw any light on the possible site? It was quite a
walk from Ware, across a few little bridges and streams, as I recall. We
were beyond a pig farm, owned I think by a Mr. Stanyon, which had a
never-to-be-forgotten odour as the pigs were fed on lorry-loads of pea-shucks
from the Fropax(?) canning factory.
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