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Stephanie Taylor was born in 1984 at Enfield when her parents were living at Larmans Road there. The family moved to Great Dunmow and she was educated at Great Dunmow Infant and Junior school (High Stile), Helena Romanes High School, and Braintree College.
She has worked at Protolink Ltd., and Dunmow Co-op.
What I'm going to write about is not as important as the other memories on the site. It isn't about the war, or anything drastic like that, because I wasn't even alive then. It is something more personal to me, even if it is a little trivial, it was important to me at the time.
My favourite memory is from when I attended my first concert. It was back in 1998, not that long ago but I was only 14 at the time! My parents drove me and my sister-in-law, Trina, all the way from Great Dunmow (where we live now), to the Oxford Zodiac.
We finally got changed (no thanks to the locked public toilets -- we had to change in the car in broad daylight!). Walking to the venue, we saw the huge line of what must have been a hundred people already there. After what seemed like hours the queue eventually diminished and we went in.
The band was late, and everyone was tense. We came all this way to see our idols, and they weren't even there yet! I probably took my frustration out on Trina more than was necessary. When the band, Placebo, arrived, the crowd erupted into cheers and shouts.
Everyone wanted to be at the front near the band, so it was really cramped around the stage. No-one cared, though -- it was all part of the experience. We would have stood on hot coals for the hour and a half if that was what it took to see the band. They were fantastic, and the people in the crowd were all so colourful and enthusiastic; the atmosphere was breathtaking.
When the band said goodbye and they were playing their last song, I was angry, for they had only been on for twenty minutes! But I looked at my watch and couldn't believe that they had been playing for an hour and a half. The time had just flown by.
I have been to see them since and have seen other bands, but nothing compares to the rush of going to your first gig.
Stephanie Taylor, Great Dunmow, Essex, 2002
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