Chapel St Leonards memories
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Original Club Fire
Can anyone remember what year the original Benvenute burnt down? Thanks. Dave W.
Happy Memories of Chapel St LLeonards
I have fond memories of our family holidays in Chapel St Leonards in the 1950s, it was also where some of my relatives lived and worked. I remember the giant fish that was washed up on the beach and I have a few old black and white photos of my family, including my grandma, sitting on the steps at Chapel Point, my grandma all dressed up with her coat and hat and my dad in his suit, shirt undone though! It was 'the attire for seaside holidays' in those days. My great-aunt had a boarding house on Anderby Lane, unfortunately the floods came over the bank and flooded the houses and she left and moved to Hogsthorpe. I remember climbing the sandy banks in front of the row of houses, to go down onto the dunes and down to the sea.
Later when I married we took our own kids to Chapel Point, lovely memories and a family tradition.
Chapel in The 1950s And 1960s.
When I was a child in the 1950s and 1960s we went to chapel every year and stayed in a bungalow named FAIRVIEW which is on the corner of
Sunningdale Drive and South Road. Across the road lived an AA man with his motor bike and sidecar, further round South Road lived a blind man who used to make wicker baskets etc. Another memory is the coffee bar opposite Millers Amusements, and going in for a Horlicks or milkshake and playing the juke box, they were very happy times for my brother and I. Now I have started, more and more memories are coming back so I will be writing again.
Miss Canning,
Miss Canning did not have the haberdashery store, that was Mrs Graham and her shop was next door to Stows Stores. In the back was a little tea room and a girl called Lilly Bodice worked with her. The shop and cottage she lived in was left to Lilly when Mrs Graham passed away. Miss Canning sold the papers, sweets, cigarettes and the stall outside had fruit and veg. One year she sold fireworks, only the one year as the village lads pinched most of them. I have to admit I was one of those lads and she was my Aunt. Happy days. Stinsons Moter Services was the local bus way before the Lincolnshire Road Car came to the village. Their buses were red and the Road Car were green.
I am Seeking Old Images of Chapel St. Leonards in The Early 1950's
My grandfather had a holiday home that was washed away in the 1953 floods, it was a very unsual property from what I have been told, but have never seen an image of it. It was 2 old railway carriages that sat overlooking the sea about a half mile north of Chapel Point. It would have been very visible and I would imagine fairly interesting for anyone walking down the beach. This is a long shot but I would love to see an image of the property, my family have none, all their photos were lost in the flood. If not of the property itself, any old photos of Chapel and the Point and flood images would be great to see. My email is : johnalcock11@yahoo.co.uk Thank you.
Chip Shop Memories
Yes do remember the Chip Shop in Chapel St Leonards that was run by Ben, as a young girl we used to often go there so no doubt were served by Margaret, are you any relation to Eileen, and were you or your parents in the Lincolnshire Floods?
Did Anyone Know my Grandparents?
John and May Mcgahan worked in a Chapel-St-Leonards' chipshop for Ben? My mother was called Margaret Mcgahan. Does anyone remember them? Did you work with them? I would like to find out more.
I have moved away now but my brother runs a cafe at Cafe St Leonards.
Memories of Lincolnshire
My Childhood in Hogsthorpe
I was born in 1951 and in April 1953 our family moved to Hogsthorpe. My parents were worried as that was the year of the floods and they had put furniture in our new home. Although the police would not let them through to check on things, fortunately, Hogsthorpe was not flooded. So we moved in and in September of 1956 I started at the primary school. This building, however, was destroyed by fire. It was then a very small village-everyone knew everyone and the school had 60 pupils(it could have been less) in it.
My address then was Ashleigh, West End and my late father ran a poultry farm. I did notice Betty Kirkham's name on the Hogsthorpe village website and if you speak to her, I am sure that she will remember us. I used to go to her to have my hair permed.
I was at school with some of the Jinks family and Sylvia was the same age... Read more
Grandfather
I remember going to Hogsthorpe to see some family member. They had the butchers shop. My grandad was Euclid Stephenson. Born1875. Lived on the High Street, he worked as a postman,and was a member of the post office choir, who went to "the Holyland" singing.There is a carving on a house with the Stephenson name on it. Euclid married Lucy Cutts. They moved to Nottingham but returned in 1934. I would love to know if anyone knows of them. Ann Stephenson
Hogsthorpe Farms.
I have fond memories of Hogsthorpe in 1959. I worked on a farm just outside the village, I think the area was called Slackholme End. The farm belonged to Silas Willey and next door was a bigger farm belonging to Taylors. In busy times both farms would work together, haymaking, threshing, potato picking etc. I think Taylors had some land across the road called Greens as well. I did most of the milking, the milk collected in churns by Eastons from Alford. I did early starts from Bilsby where I lived and I used to push bike it until I got a motorbike. I also did most of the tractor driving, a grey diesel Fergie whose reg number I forget. I can't remember any names from the village except North, but I do recall using the "Top House" rather than the "Bottom House" for a drink after work (I was only 16, nobody bothered). What was the name of the "Top House"? I would like to know. And also what... Read more
Harrison's Store
The store with the petrol pumps in this photograph was owned from at leat the early 1950s to the late 70's by a couple, originally from Leicester, called Bob and Grace Harrison. In the season, opening hours were around 6am to 11pm, and the store sold just about everything.
Harrisons Store
I spent the whole of the school summer holidays working on Manor Farm at Anderby from 1947 to 1951. Each evening and all weekends were spent at Anderby creek with Harrisons Stores as base. Bob Harrison used to get me a weekly supply of cigarettes which were kept behind the counter and collected on Saturday (Pay Day!) If I ran short in the meantime he could usualy rustle up a packet of Grande Turque or Pasha which took some inhaling. (I started at age of 15) He and his wife spent all their time trying to matchmake me with an attractive young lady who lived in a bungalow a few doors from them - June Lowe was her name if I recall correctly, and she lived in Beeston, Nottingham or thereabouts. There was also a very good fish and chip shop open several nights a week at Roses caravan site nearer the beach. At that time there were no petrol pumps outside Harrisons.
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