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Reminiscences of Knockholt

 
Mr Frank Bond
A recording on 9th March 1970 at Mr Bond’s home, known as Grove End.


This house used to be (owned) originally by the village carrier to London. He used to go up on Thursdays with a two-horse van and pick up his load on Fridays and come back Friday evenings and distribute it here on Saturday morning.
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Mrs Alma Saker
An interview with Alma Saker in March 2010

I was born in Knockholt, in a cottage called ‘Seven Green Bottles’ in London Road. It was a flint cottage and in the apex of the roof there were the seven green bottles my great grandfather had planted in there. All along the front opposite the Chapel, was the kitchen garden and sometimes in the winter it would fill with water; and there were apple trees growing along there.
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