On 11/12/05 11:56, in article
, "Rusty Hinge 2"
wrote:

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Ah, we moved to Hornchurch in 1944 from the Surrey/Kent area purely, I
understand, so it would keep my grandmother at arm's length. As the only
child of her only child, who succumbed to the attentions of Mr Hitler in
the summer of 1940, there was a danger that I would be spoilt rotten.

Then the owner of the house we rented put it on the market and we moved
to Corbetts Tey, but at the height of the V1 onslaught the price of the
Hornchurch house was reduced sufficiently for my mother and new
stepfather to purchase it and risk the doodle-bugs - Hornchurch was a
prime target because of the front-line fighter station there.

Many years later than your occupation of Hornchurch, I worked at the Queen's
Theatre as the lowest form of human life - a student ASM. That would have
been around 1963. I remember that Diana Rigg did a Sunday night reading
there and that Stephanie Cole was in a couple of things that theatre did.
Fortnightly rep - a wonderful breeding ground for some future stars!
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