Dancing at the Windmill

Sunday 4th January 2002 I talked to Phyllis Munslow today in the road outside the Church gates. She told me that the old mill, that is the Tower Windmill, to the north end of the village, demolished in the sixties, was once used for dances. She remembered dancing on the old mill floor.

She also remembered dances being held in an old shed opposite Miss Trevor’s house (now the Lambeths). This must have been located in what is now a coppice adjacent to Domas Lane.

She knew Mary Brookshaw when she lived in Hughley, before she married Jim.

She also remembered Betty Blake and her family coming to Rowley House Farm. Betty asked for her, but Joanna went to the door. Joanna must have been the thirteen year old girl that so shocked and reminded Betty Blake of the girl she had known as a refugee in the war. Phyllis said that Betty only stayed about ten days in the war but there were other evacuees staying at the Old Rectory.