{"id":405,"date":"2018-10-25T20:27:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T20:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ullenhallhistory.org\/home\/?page_id=405"},"modified":"2018-10-25T20:27:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T20:27:29","slug":"y-s-ronnie-nee-hemus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ullenhallhistory.org\/?page_id=405","title":{"rendered":"Y.S. Ronnie nee Hemus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">(From a letter written to Margaret Feeney in 1994.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">Thinking back I remember Brownie friends Betty and Mollie Course whose parents kept the greengrocers on the triangle in the middle of the village. Winnie Harris whose father was horseman I think for Hancox farmers, children were Elsie &amp; Kenny Hancox. Mary Matthews and Peggy Gosling were our Brown &amp; Tawny Owls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">There was a sweetshop, Tattersalls; Richards general store &amp; Post Office; &amp; Allcotts the Bakers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">Times were very hard and our main meal was often horse beans cooked in a stew pot in the oven all night with a marrowbone! We used to get told off for wasting the bean skins (they were hard!) and we would hide them in our sock tops \u2013 but we are survivors! We knew all the best apple &amp; plum trees in the area and hopefully took our bags for windfalls, and when any of the locals killed a pig we used to go for \u2018fry\u2019 \u2013 rare treat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">They were happy days. Spring &amp; summer lovely with abundance of wild flowers \u2013 primroses, cowslips, violets etc, and our secret wild orchids at Oldberrow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">My brother was only 14 months younger than me. We had the freedom of the parish and wandered miles. I think the children of today miss out a lot on the simple pleasures of life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">10\/2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(From a letter written to Margaret Feeney in 1994.) Thinking back I remember Brownie friends Betty and Mollie Course whose parents kept the greengrocers on the triangle in the middle of the village. Winnie Harris whose father was horseman I think for Hancox farmers, children were Elsie &amp; Kenny Hancox. Mary Matthews and Peggy Gosling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ullenhallhistory.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ullenhallhistory.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ullenhallhistory.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ullenhallhistory.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ullenhallhistory.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ullenhallhistory.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406,"href":"https:\/\/ullenhallhistory.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/405\/revisions\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ullenhallhistory.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}