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Stocker Road And All That.
Growing up by the sea in the 1950s and 1960s was non stop fun and excitement. A fair amount of time was getting into all sorts of mischief, the humble pea shooter was bought out at opportune moments to pepper just about anyone or anything that moved. Being chased along the sea front by a policeman and irate motorist whose car we had targeted was just one example of our mis-spent childhood. My good friend and partner in most of these escapades was Sean Gates, we both lived in Crewkerne, Stocker Road. There used to be a guy that dossed down in one of the shelters on the sea front (opposite Mill House), he was Polish we believe, calling him the `mad polensky`, he was always about the Aldwick Road shops, swearing and cursing and stinking of meths (now would be vodka), anyway he got our attention and suffered a horrendous bombardment of stones onto the roof of the shelter. He crept out shouting "One of you two boys threw stones",... Read more
Summer at Dark Lane
I remember that we had some wonderful days at Dark Lane on the beach when we should have been at school! And how wonderfully clear the water was, and diving off the pipe there!
West Sussex memories
Not so Green Rose Green.
The shop, Oakmere pet and garden supplies, 9 Rose Green Road, was a small electrical, radio and TV business back in the early 1960s. I worked there as a young lad in 1962/63 (the cold winter), the people renting the shop were Barry Marney, Doug Ball and the TV repair man Gerry Warboys, they came from south London and Hatfield respectively. In the back garden was a small workshop where TV repairs were carried out. One job I shall never forget was to gingerly release the vacuum of redundant cathode ray tubes from the TVs by tapping away at the glass seal at the rear of the tube until a loud hiss was heard. Once safe, the solution to recycling was no more than dumping the tubes into a large pit and smashing them with a hammer!Every time a walk takes me past that shop I still wonder if they have ever been discovered?
Church Farm Caravan Site 1975-1979
I have just booked a holiday to Church Farm Caravan Site for May 2011 and the reason for this is I used to holiday there every year from 1975 to 1979. My parents had a caravan on the Saltings I think it was number 11. We used to driver there in my dad's Ford Zephyr car and I can still remember the registration and the long front seats in red plastic made to look like leather. Our caravan had candles for lights which you lit with matches and blew out at bedtime, it had no loo and I remember all the spiders lurking in the communal toilet at the end of the field. We used to have a bucket to pee in through the night and I always used to laugh when my dad put the tea cosy on his head when he made the tea in the mornings. We collected water from a big tap and the gas man came around with a bottle when you ran out. It... Read more
Head Receptionist ~ Church Farm
I can see the roof of my parents' old house in the background on this pic. I used the be the Head Receptionist at Church Farm Holiday Park, just behind the old Clubhouse from 1983 - 1987. I worked with Joyce Aldridge in the beginning, Alan & Nancy & their daughter Julie, Bill, Cocker, Buster & old Tom the drunken gas man. I was the tall blond girl in the office. I lived on site with my husband in Ballast Hole. Many a night was spent propping up the bar in the club and crawling into work the next morning ready for all the holiday makers stampeding in from Essex and London...those were the days!)
I made some wonderful friends like Doreen Wood - who took over from me when I left. Doreen sadly passed away a few years ago now and I miss her still...
I got married at St.Thomas a Beckett's Church up the lane in 1986 - but the rat abandoned me in Australia 23... Read more
Peter Tayman ~ In Loving Memory...and Also A Haunted House.
My parents bought an old railway carriage bungalow at 66, East Front Rd, on Pagham Beach in the early 1990's. The place was a total dump, so they burned it down on the beach! This was allowed by Council back then, if below the tide line - what a waste of the antique railway carriages that were hidden inside layers of plywood and plaster boards! We did save some of the old fittings, but they are since lost.
They built an ugly brick L-shaped modern bungalow with too many steps, that was always damp on one side, even though the footings were massively deep & the damp course was fine! I know, because I helped build that house and even built a retaining wall that is still standing, or it was the last time I looked and that was in 2004. Not bad for a female Undertaker!
My Dad found a whole heap of Molotov cocktail type bombs buried under the old footings which were left... Read more
Pagham Reviewed Opinion
I spent my teen years during the late 1970s and early 1980s at Church Farm Caravan Site. We spent our days wandering the site or walking to the Crab and Lobster Pub at Sidlesham. That was before the harbour wall was put in, and you would have to check the tide times or risk a very long return journey. My brother Robert spent far more time at Pagham than I did, thinking it was a pretty uncool place to be until I met Tony Hadley, who was to become the lead singer of Spandau Ballet. His parents had a caravan on the site. My brother was very good friends with the Fox brothers, Will, Joe and Jim, who resided at Millstone Cottage with their parents, Shirley and Frank, and my mum used to caretake their house and sons! when Shirley and Frank went to Spain. My mum used to rent a bungalow on the beach during the winter months and eventually moved to Pagham permanently.
Robert my brother also decided... Read more
