Page 11 - Frank Day's memories and Day Family article

I must mention another customer of mine, Mrs Morris who owned Beeches Manor Hotel, and
that was behind what is known now as the Masonic Hall opposite St. Paul's. This was a very

beautiful part of Wokingham, with many trees (sadly now gone) surrounding this very old
house. Mrs Morris would always leave a little present at Christmas for me; she was a very

charming lady. Sadly, I understand this house was burnt to the ground.

Rose Street was the oldest part of Wokingham, but car parks are now a part of this. Mrs

Halworth's Bakery and Corn & Seed Merchant, Mrs Prince's Sweet Shop, Palmer School and
The Apple Orchards are all gone now.

There were so many people and to include all would take some time, but I will mention a
few: Elliston Clifton, Clifton Browne, John West (councillor); Ron Chamberlain, Kathleen

Watts, Kathleen Osmond, The Rockett Family (near White Horse), Eric & Norman Stonard,
Phyllis Skates, Phyllis Lush, Olive Berry, Harry Coles, Mary Cullp, Mr Featherby (caretaker

at Westcott Road School), Mr Reynolds (caretaker at Langborough), Mr Langley (verger at
All Saints'), Mr Eamer (my uncle), the verger at St Paul's and many, many more.

At the beginning of the war, Lawrence's Brickyard, that I spoke of in Molly Millar's Lane,
was taken over by a London company from Millwall Docks, as a warehouse, and the manager

of that company lived in a house in Southlands Road. His name was Mr Reed and I had to
serve him. But shortly afterwards I was called up as were my other brothers. My eldest

brother was already in the army and the second eldest was in the Royal Navy (Submarine

Service). I joined the RAF and another enlisted in the Royal Berkshire Regiment, while one
brother was in the Merchant Service and my youngest brother went into the Fleet Air Arm.

Thankfully, we all came back.

By the 1950s Wokingham was being changed and we all got married and moved away. There

are three of us left now, but we all had a wonderful childhood and a very dear mother who
worked hard to keep us all respectable despite the loss of our father. We all came through it

and have had no regrets whatsoever.

Wokingham was our home and when we meet we go back to those days and the times we had
there. The people were so friendly and the customers I served amd the generosity of the