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If you know the bottom end of College Road you may wonder why some of the houses are more modern than others further up the road.
This is because they were rebuilt in the late 1950s as a (flying?) bomb fell there late in the war.
We lived higher up the road at No 88 and our next door neighbours (86) had a very happy fair-haired daughter aged then about 12, June Brooks.
She had been to Braintree with her sister to stay at a cottage owned by their parents and they'd had bad row. June came home by rail with her bike and cycled from the station and was passing just at the wrong moment.