I was born in July 1919 at Myrtle Cottage, which is next door to The Cock Inn, but is I believe now called Lavender Cottage. My father was Rev. F. W. Taylor, rector of Little Bradley until his death in 1929. He was also Chaplain of the Risby Institute at Kedington. His means of transport as was common in those days was his bicycle.

The Cock Inn was kept by Mr. and Mrs. John Rowlinson, and he also ran a private hire car for journeys to Haverhill and such places. I remember well one evening in the 1920s he had to go to meet a train at Haverhill and went to see if he had enough petrol in the Tin Lizzie. There was of course no petrol gauge in his car, so John took the usual means of light in those days ­ a candle ­ but as you may have guessed, while directing the light so that he could see in the petrol tank, the candle fell out of the holder into the tank and blew up the car.