Gorleston memories
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Wonderful Times
"Hold his hand and, don't let him fall in", were my dear old mum's famous last words. As an 8 year old when this photo was taken, keeping an eye on an accident prone 6 year old brother was no easy task. Off we went on the old steam train all the way from London to stay with our grandfather in Pier Plain, and I remember little brother Billy literally running down the road with his brand new yacht under his arm. It was amazing how, year after year, he hit the water before the yacht did. No wonder he became such a good swimmer with the amount of times he went in either there or, outside the lifeboat station. Mum hass gone now, Grandad has gone as well but me and 'Billy the kid' are still fighting old age. It doesn't matter how long ago it was, those wonderful sunny summer days remain in my memory as clear as ever. We're still best mates and always will be but, every time... Read more
The Night The Roof Came Down
When I went to work in Great Yarmouth all those years ago I managed to find a 'home-from-home 'at 5 Pavilion Road at Gorleston. At number 4 lived Doris Little and her family. One night while just about to climb into bed the chimney breast fell in - missing me by a cat's whisker! There was large hole in the ceiling and a pile of bricks and plaster on the floor. Until the thing was repaired I spent the next two weeks sleeping downstairs on a 'fold-away' camp bed. I remember Lulu, the pet poodle, keeping me awake biting her nails and ToTo the cat scratching at the window, trying to get in! When I eventually returned to my bedroom I had a brand new ceiling and coving. Little things - but wonderful memories.
Stephen Smith,
Leeds
Fishing in The Harbour
We use to fish in the Quay by going down to the water by the little jetty shown in the picture. I fished with a small wined up fishing line.
Must have been about 9/10m years old.
The only fish I court I couldn't take of the hook because it wriggled to much, never fished since!!
Memories of Norfolk
Constitutional Holiday Camp
As a young lad we visited the Constitutional Holiday Camp for a number of years, as far as I can remember I went with my parents from about 1949 to 1955. At that time my parents were living in East London which even by then was still suffering from the results of the wartime bombing, and to visit Hopton was of course a breath of fresh air (in more ways than one). I can always remember the chalets which were brick built and rendered and after the sun had been on them all day were extremely hot at night. There was always lots to do for the children, with numerious competitions and sports and I can remember spending many hours on the small boating lake, sailing a small model yacht, having races with some of the other children. The food was always very good,and of the time was a very good place to have a holiday and all too soon was time to return home again.
I do have... Read more
Constitutional Holiday Camp
Was this camp called the 'Constitutional Holiday Camp'? If so I remember being sent there for a week's holiday by the British Legion Orphans Committee - it felt like I was going to the other end of the world from Cambridge. I had a great time even though I was very homesick for a few days. I remember having to queue up in the mornings with a very large enamelled jug to get hot water from a stand pipe tap! and the food ... well, the less said about that the better eh!
Mum's Memories!
It seems that my great great grandparents lived in Blackfriars Tower, sometime in 1920/1930s. Though my mum had told my sister that she remembers visiitng her grandmother in the Tower, she felt that Mum had confused it with somewhere else. A couple of years later we asked my mum's brother and he too remembered his grandparents living there. Unfortunately both are now dead.
Does anyone know anything of the Tower?
We have current photos of the Tower and of course the Wall is uncovered and laid to grass at the front.
We found it difficult to believe that anyone could have lived there.
The photo was a great discovery. What I'd like now is a photo c1920 and a potted history.
Blackfriars
I too had an aunt who lived there. In its time, it has had a house on top of the tower and a house on the wall attached to the left. The house on top by then had disappeared.
Through the archway was a line of small cottages with large front gardens. This was known as Adam and Eve's Gardens. I used to go through here to get to Friars Lane where my grandmother lived. Further to my previous statement, this tower whilst located in Blackfriars Rd, is the south east tower, Blackfriars Tower is the next tower to the south and it is round in shape, this tower is shaped like a D. THIS WAS WHERE MY AUNT RESIDED.
Fond Memories
was married at church on sat 3-3-1962,spent first few years of marriage living on upper floor of tower at 98 blackfriars road.i remember well the awful job we had to get our furniture in as the stairs were too steep and winding, had to rope them up through thebedroom/lounge window we shared a kitchen on the lower floor and a shared bathroom and toilet.the tower was owned by olive,sorry i cannot remember her surname, she worked at a butcher shop ,
reguards john
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