b'Memories of a Yorkshire LassSonia Coffey (ne Powell)A lthough I emigrated to Lancashire in 1961, I stillthank him for. He was also very good at teaching P.E.class myself as a Yorkshire Lass and am veryI can also recall Mr. Nicholson and Mr.Owen - and not proud of my roots. forgetting Mrs. Burley, who as far as I can remember I was very privileged to be born at Home Farm,came to the school as a temp. She was the only on the Garrowby Estate. I was born one very foggyteacher to ever give me the cane! I cannot remember morning in November 1942, the daughter of Dorothynow what it was for, but I had to go and get the cane and Victor Powell.My Mum was the daughter offrom Mr. Brooks (by gum did it hurt).Charles and Sarah Cook, my Grandfather was theMy Dad eventually went back into the Regular Farm Manager at Home Farm. Army in 1956.Mum and I went to live at the Vicarage Unfortunately my Dad had gone off to War within Bishop Wilton as Mum became housekeeper to Rev the 1st Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers to fight theR. Fawcett for a short time. We had great times there Germans at Dunkirk and the Japanese in Burma. and used to play tennis on the lawns with everyone.My childhood days at Garrowby will be with meThe Vicarage was then, I thought, a great house and forever, as they were so special and content. I used toI loved every minute. I have very many fond memories spend hours just playing in the beck from Garrowbyof Rev. Fawcett. Then my Mum and I joined Dad and Lodge right up to the very top of Garrowby Hall Park. went to Northern Ireland and Bicester, then out to Also many hours were spent on my Grandads pony,Kuala Lumpur in the Far East.Cherry - I adored her. Grandpa also had a lovely ginger and white collie dog called Tim. It was nothing unusual to see the then Lord and Lady Halifax walking or riding about the estate.My memories are not too good about my first school, which was in Allerton Bywater, near Castleford, as my Dad was working on the Hickleton Estate after the war.But my second school was Bugthorpe C of E, which was a small school, and the Headmistress was Mrs. Lee.They were happy days there, except when the Dentist appeared with his caravan and parked on the green in front of the school! I attended St. Andrews Sunday School on a regular basis, the Vicar was the Rev. Foster. I remember the Archbishop of York, the then Dr. Ramsey, presenting us with our Sunday School prizes.I left Bugthorpe School and went to Bishop Wilton C of E School, where I stayed for a number of years. I loved the school and used to cycle every day from Garrowby, on my little red Raleigh bicycle, in all weathers and if it was too bad to cycle, I would walk. I have very fond memories of Mr. Fred Brooks, my thenSonia Powell in 1955 at Bishop Wilton School with Teacher; he was very strict, but a very good teacher.Peter Loft and Mr Brooks behind her.He actually taught me to sew and knit, which I have to ColdonKate PrattT he translation of the 14th century documentthe word Coldon! This gave me the clue that it included in the last Bulletin (no 14) threw upwas a place-name and nothing to do with Bishop a puzzlethe word Coldon was used as a sideWilton; a little more research took me to Great and heading, and no reference book could even begin toLittle Colden, or Cowden as it is now called, near suggest a possible meaning for it. Mappleton on the Holderness coast. Apparently the 2 However a few days after the Bulletin came out,villages are much reduced, as the church, the rectory I was reading (as you do) the Register of Archbishopand many of the houses have all been swallowed up Greenfield from the 14th century, and there wasby the sea.BULLETIN 14 247'