This photograph of Knightwick shows Willow trees that have recently be pollarded, circa 1910. The house on the right is the Post Office where I was born in 1949. Bridge Cottage is to the left of this. The most interesting house is the one on the left, it looks a sturdy house but it was obviously demolished and the semi-detached house that stands there today was built and these were farm houses belonging to Ankerdine Farm and Alan Morris lived there all the time I remember with his wife Elsie May (Perkins) Morris and son Trevor Morris. Again the "knob" picnic area at the top of Ankerdine stands out as it is clear of any trees (unlike these days). A horse can be seen grazing in the field, which now is mostly a tarmac car park, owned by the Talbot Hotel. The bank of the river seen here is where I used to fish and I caught lots of eels, which we ate, Dad used to like jellied eels but we just had these ones fried. One of our postmen used to be night-watchman when the New Bridge was being built and I learnt all about catching eels from him, as this is what he did while he was there keeping guard of all the equipment and goods. I used to think what a great job, you do your fishing and you get paid for it too.

 

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