Country Homes & Interiors

“Without a friend, St Mary’s would have been knocked down”

I lived in a Victorian house near a farm in Maldon, Essex. My bedroom looked out at the Scout hut and, having got to know some of the Scouts, I had a pact with them. I would flash my bedroom light three times and, if they returned the signal, we would tumble out

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