Grey Cottages, Low Road, Pentney

Image: © Ian Andrews Taken: 23 Apr 2003

This cottage is where I spent most of my school holidays as a child. My grandparents James and Alice Chinn, moved there in 1965 from Tottenham. Apart from retiring to the country they chose Norfolk because my fathers company were moving to Thetford, so they would be nearer my family once we moved. However before the company moved my father died suddenly and so we stayed in Tottenham. I went back in 2003, some 25 years after my grandparents moved and the place hadn't changed apart from a new porch. It was still incredibly quiet except for the crows at Maltkiln Farm which were always noisy, although in the '60s and '70s the Victor Tankers from nearby RAF Marham tended to upset them a lot by flying low over the fields. A very kind lady who lives in the cottage showed me around the cottage and a neighbour gave me an aerial photograph of the cottages as a keepsake; the kindness of the people in the village hadn't changed either. My grandparents bought the cottage for £500 (five hundred). I see that one's up for now in 2013 at £80,000. Very fond memories. (Can Alan give me another e-mail address; I've tried replying twice to his e-mail about this photo but it keeps getting returned undelivered)

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