Front room sweet shop on West Street
From Barbara Hodges (nee Brewer)
When I lived in West Street as a child, I remember my mother taking me to a house on the opposite side of the road where a lady called Alice Amos lived. Her front room was a sweet shop and she had a talking parrot in a cage.
There was a house that stood back next to the Fleece with a garden in front of it then about two houses along going towards Braintree there was Alice Amos's house with two or three steps to the front door. She might have been there before the war but I visited the little shop during the early 40's as far as I remember, I suppose it could have been any time from about 1938/39 when I was 3 & 4 yrs. Old.
Opposite my house were three attached cottages, the middle one belonged to a Mr.& Mrs Andrews who I used to be taken to visit and next to her was a little lady who was always telling my mother the error of her ways because she wouldn't join the Jehovah Witness group.
I wonder if anyone else remembers Mrs Amos' s front room shop?
Comments
By Judy Clarke: I grew up living in West st, we lived in the cottage next to the Amos house, I remember Catherine Amos probably a little older than me, I was born in 65.
My Grandma was the house keeper at Paycockes for Mrs McAuliffe for as long as I can remember!
We spent a lot of time in Paycockes house and gardens when we were growing up. By roddy Miller: Rory McAuliffe was the son He would have been about 21 in 1963 I was then 13 He played in the 2nd X1 for several years and then left I think he was Australian and somehow I found him working in Sydney (?)@2000 as a teacher spoke to him on phone briefly and had an email but now lost touch He was a fair player and a great drinker of Greene King and any other brew! By Roy Ladhams: The man in the photo is my great Grandad Ernest Adams. The two boys are his sons known locally as the twins , my great uncles who fought in the Great War. In their old age Hugh and Hubert became well known in Coggeshall for their love of antiques ,horse racing and visiting the Woolpack or the Chapel hotel. I think the little girl is my grandmother Constance Adams who married the local builder George Birkin , whose first child was my mother Eva. I played cricket with Rory McAuliffe for coggeshall . Ernest Adams I think was the gardener for Mrs Mc Auliffe.