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 Mosh spoke of the Reading Room bungalow opening straight onto the track, which was the Main Road of Lacey Green, virtually unused by traffic, his feet in the road.
-'''1929 Extract from "Children in a Bodgers World"'''  by ‘Mosh’ Saunders.  "1929 aged 6 the pond was a source of great attraction to me, having fallen in three times in my very best Sunday clothes.  It had a walk with slatted timbers to the very middle of the pond, and my young mind was drawn to walking backwards along it and thus falling over the end into the water".
+'''1929 Extract from "Children in a Bodgers World"'''  by ‘Mosh’ Saunders.  "1929 aged 7 the pond was a source of great attraction to me, having fallen in three times in my very best Sunday clothes.  It had a walk with slatted timbers to the very middle of the pond, and my young mind was drawn to walking backwards along it and thus falling over the end into the water".
 '''WW2'''.  On D Day plus two, Mosh had been injured and brought back to England where he was taken to a hospital outside Wolverhampton.

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	Mosh spoke of the Reading Room bungalow opening straight onto the track, which was the Main Road of Lacey Green, virtually unused by traffic, his feet in the road.		Mosh spoke of the Reading Room bungalow opening straight onto the track, which was the Main Road of Lacey Green, virtually unused by traffic, his feet in the road.
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		+	'''1929 Extract from "Children in a Bodgers World"''' by ‘Mosh’ Saunders. "1929 aged 6 the pond was a source of great attraction to me, having fallen in three times in my very best Sunday clothes. It had a walk with slatted timbers to the very middle of the pond, and my young mind was drawn to walking backwards along it and thus falling over the end into the water".

	'''WW2'''. On D Day plus two, Mosh had been injured and brought back to England where he was taken to a hospital outside Wolverhampton.		'''WW2'''. On D Day plus two, Mosh had been injured and brought back to England where he was taken to a hospital outside Wolverhampton.

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 '''c 2003-2006 living at bungalow,''' '[[Marlins]]' [[New Road]], [[Walters Ash]]
-'''Mosh died''' 21st March 2006 at 'Marlins', New Road, Walters Ash.
+'''Mosh died''' 21st March 2006 at 'Marlins', New Road, Walters Ash. (The first property on New Road on left from Lacey Green to Walters Ash).
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 Kay Saunders born
 [[File:Trudi Saunders.jpg|thumb|Trudi's 100th birthday.   February 2022]]
-'''Mosh published''' a book entitled "Children in a Bodgers World" recording his childhood experiences with his grandfather and the bodgers,  (put bodgers in Search for men who were wood turners)
+'''In 2021 Mosh published''' a book entitled "Children in a Bodgers World" recording his childhood experiences with his grandfather Owen Smith and the bodgers, click [[Owen & Minnie Smith]] for more about Mosh's grandparents. (put bodgers in Search for men who were wood turners)
 '''in 1923 Mosh & his twin sister Millicent''' were born in a little cottage at [[Idle Corner]] but the family moved to [[The Reading Room]] soon after.  Mosh called Idle Corner  the ‘Black Horse Yard.’
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 '''After the War''' the “war workers” had to either go into factories or on the buses.      Mosh`s twin sister Millicent worked for Marconi  in Sands and got a job for Trudy there, but  she was obliged to be a conductress, taking the money on the buses in Wycombe  because that had  been her choice before she left Wolverhampton.   She hated it.   She lived in digs down Loudwater, High Wycombe  near the then bus station.  For more about Mosh's twin Millicent click [[Bob & Millicent Martin]]
-'''Mosh and Trudy married in 1946.'''   They moved into  small bungalow behind Mosh's parents house 'Chorlton.   In 1947 they had a daughter, Kay. They were now very short of room and looked for somewhere to build.   Then in 1951 the Council built Greenlands and Mosh and Trudy moved into [[Greenlands no 6]].
+'''Mosh and Trudy married in 1946.'''   They moved into  small bungalow behind Mosh's parents house '[[Chorlton]]'.   In 1947 they had a daughter, Kay. They were now very short of room and looked for somewhere to build.   Then in 1951 the Council built [[Greenlands]] and Mosh and Trudy moved into [[Greenlands no 6]].   click [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/1951_Greenlands_First_Tenants 1951 Greenlands First Tenants.] for a list.
-'''1951 Greenlands'''
+Trudy had been welcomed into a truly socable, very musical, family, so she was quickly feeling at home.   She found Millicent, Mosh's twin sister a great friend although she had now married Bob Martin.   click [[Bob & Millicent Martin]] for their life story.
-Mosh and Trudy moved into 6 [[Greenlands]], a new close built by the Council in1951.   See [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/1951_Greenlands_First_Tenants 1951 Greenlands First Tenants.]
+'''2<sup>nd</sup> December 1958    Conveyance'''
-Percy William Simmons of 61 Lambert Road, Banstead, Surrey, instrument maker sold to Maurice James Saunders of 6 Greenlands, Lacey Green, builder, for £500
+Percy William Simmons of 61 Lambert Road, Banstead, Surrey, instrument maker sold to Maurice James Saunders of 6 Greenlands, Lacey Green, builder, for £500 :-
 All that land frontage to Lacey Green Road of 73 feet with covenant to maintain boundary fence on SE and SW.
-'''''Reseach Note'''.   This was now bare land.   Maurice ‘Mosh’ and Trudy Saunders cleared the ground.   Trudy spoke of the amount of rubble from the old flint cottage that had been there.  They then built the house ‘Dry Hillocks’ on the site.   The site of the old cottage became the drive for ‘Dry Hillocks’  For more click [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Dry_Hillocks Dry Hillocks]''
+'''''Reseach Note'''.   This was now bare land.   Maurice ‘Mosh’ and Trudy Saunders cleared the ground.   Trudy spoke of the amount of rubble from the old flint cottage that had been there and recalled barrowing many loads of stones to clear the site and build  the back up level, and helping to lay floorboards. They then built the house ‘Dry Hillocks’ on the site.   The site of the old cottage became the drive for ‘Dry Hillocks’  For more click [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Dry_Hillocks Dry Hillocks]''
 '''November 1962.   Conveyance'''
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 Move to [[Bergamot]], Loosley Row  ??
-'''In 2001 Mosh published a book titled "Children in a Bodgers' World"''', telling the story of himself and his twin sister Millicent spending time with their grandfather Owen Smith and the bodgers in Hampden Woods. click Owen &
+'''c 2003-2006 living at bungalow,''' '[[Marlins]]' [[New Road]], [[Walters Ash]]
 '''Mosh died''' 21st March 2006 at 'Marlins', New Road, Walters Ash.

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 Move to [[Bergamot]], Loosley Row  ??
-'''In 2001 Mosh published a book titled "[[Children in a Bodgers' World]]"''', telling the story of himself and his twin sister Millicent spending time with their grandfather Owen Smith and the bodgers in Hampden Woods.
+'''In 2001 Mosh published a book titled "Children in a Bodgers' World"''', telling the story of himself and his twin sister Millicent spending time with their grandfather Owen Smith and the bodgers in Hampden Woods. click Owen &
 '''c 2003-2006 living at bungalow,''' '[[Marlins]]' [[New Road]], [[Walters Ash]]

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-Connie Baker ([[Fred & Connie Baker]]) mentioned Mosh as playing the piano at dances in the [[Village Hall]] click
+'''Connie Baker''' ([[Fred & Connie Baker]]) '''mentioned Mosh''' as playing the piano at dances in the [[Village Hall]].  click [[2005 Memories of Con Baker]] for the full article
 '''Article by Alan Luxford, written in 2005 on the occasion of Mosh and Trudy's Diamond Wedding.'''