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| She was named after Ellen Mary Ann's friend Effie, and daughters Alice, Muriel. Aunt Effie stayed at home with Gran until she married and helped Gran run the big Clock House. Also she had a job in the village at Boreham doing housework for the Misses Hazlewood. She left very early in the morning and came home to breakfast, when the rest of the day was spent helping Gran. There was plenty of work as Gran nearly always had lodgers from Seabrook's. Aunt Effie met Cuff, or Cuthbert WHITING, who was Rosa Young's lodger, and they were married. June was their first born child, and eighteen months after that Valerie came along. There was a small cottage to let at Thistley Green, Felsted, and Aunt Effie and Cuff got it. Later they moved to Cock Green, nearer Rosa and Edwin. When the Young's moved away to Grantham, Mr. Pulford bought their house and Cuff and Effie moved in. There was a large low drawing room with expensive carpet and television and lovely furniture. The other large room was made into a billiards room with polished cork floor and a full-sized billiards table. Cuff loved this game. There was a breakfast room which housed the three burner oil stove for cooking. This had a glass container on one side which fed the oil to the burners and when it bubbled Michael and Kevin loved it. The pantry part was a narrow part of this room with shelves. On these shelves stood big pans of milk as Cuff kept a Jersey cow, and Aunt Effie rolled the thick yellow cream off. The other part of this big room contained a dart board and then there were various food safes - no refrigerators yet. Upstairs there were three, or four very large bedrooms, and an apple room where all the fruit was stored on wooden slatted shelves. This was later made into a bathroom. When the Mill and Mill House were sold Aunt Effie and Valerie moved nearer the village. "Langton" was a nice detached house, modern and cosy with a nice back garden looking over the fields, and nice neighbours. Aunt Effie lived there with Gran, who had made her home at the Mill some years before, and daughter Valerie. | ||||||||||||||
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| The sails of an earlier (wind)mill were made into a sundial and can be seen in the front garden at Swan House, Felsted. Staff at the mill he worked at were : Fred Byatt, Ernie Brewer and himself. The mill was a corn mill. My early memories include being scared of the steep open stepped wooden staircases in the mill, but going up all the same to be able to slide down the shiny wood and steel chutes the sacks cames down - better than a helter skelter, except you'd have a fine floury coating! Cuff bought the mill when the owner , Mr. Pulford, retired. Cuff prospered. He was a very popular figure, very easy to get on with. People liked him. | ||||||||||||||
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