Caister On Sea, Holiday Camp Special Arrives At The Railway Station c.1955
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Photo of Caister On Sea, Holiday Camp Special Arrives At The Railway Station c.1955

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The railway first passed through Caister in 1877. In 1937 this halt was built at the holiday camp to allow the holiday camp expresses which ran from London to Yarmouth to drop off passengers. The line was closed in March 1959, and the tracks were taken up shortly afterwards.

A Selection of Memories from Caister-on-Sea

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Caister-on-Sea

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This is the plane I had my first flight in during the 1950s. My father had done some work for the owner/pilot , so as a reward we had a flight along the coast, I remember the pilot always used to dive bomb a large dune near where Caister Holiday Camp is .
During the summer of 1979 I worked at Ladbrookes Holiday Centre with my friend Tina, we had a wonderful summer full of laughter, I even met my husband there, he was on holiday, 37yrs later we're still married and twice a yr we go back to scratby on holiday wonderful place wonderful memories
My father was a milkman, for Home Counties Dairy, the horses were stabled in Hodeson road, the bottling dairy was opposite the Eardley arms pub. The livery was green, and the trade mark a gold triangle. Milk then was in glass pint and half pint bottles with cardboard caps. They also sold small items beside milk.
Hi its Doug again I was born in vicarshall lane like I said in my fist memory we never had central heating in winter I remember when it was cold or snowing when I woke in a morning I had to melt jack frost of the inside of the bedroom window I would make a little hole in the frost to see to my delight a lot of snow had arrived overnight and it was still snowing very hard if it was a school day we used ...see more