Worlingworth is the first village I have any memory of...
I can remember riding my 3-wheel cycle round and round the concrete path which formed a full circuit of our house (which was then the Police House)
This is my first school (two classes: Mrs Goddard & Mr Piper)
This is what the Tuckwell farm has grown up into
And in Worlingworth church
everything is just as I remember it
with the closed pews
and pipe organ
which is powered by a hand bellows
(someone has to keep an eye on the falling weight hanging from the string
and pump it up with the lever before the organ runs out of air)
And finally the old 'fire engine' is still there with its inscription (hidden)
"The gift of John Major Eʃquire to ye pariʃh of Worlingworth 1760"
[For more about the church and fire engine see e.g. here]
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