Childhood Memmories
A Memory of Hayling Island.
I stayed at the Suntrap home when I was about 7 which would have been 1951 . I was only there for a few months to try to improve my general health . I can still remember lining up every morning for a spoonful of malt and cod liver oil and the spoons being washed in a bucket of water ready for the next child in line ! The man who looked after us lived in one of the cottages near the school and was part of the lifeboat crew , I can't remember his name.
I still remember bath night when we all seemed to share the same bath and washed our hair with a bar of soap! We were taken out for a walk at the weekend come rain or shine and could buy sweets from a little shop along the seafront . My worse memory was an incident in the food hall when somebody didn't like the meal and was violently sick , which caused a chain reaction with nearly everyone joining in - if you were there you would certainly remember it!
Although I missed my family I think I enjoyed the time I spent there.
Roy Mayne
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My sister and I were at Suntrap in about 1959. Your dining room incident reminded me of a girl who would get out of eating her food, if she didn't like it I guess, by rubbing her stomach until she was sick!
The things which stick in our minds??
I don't remember being dosed with cod liver oil and malt but I think we were given small bottles of milk each day, maybe at breakfast time.
It's interesting reading all these memories of Suntrap and I wonder how the children got on in later life, especially the more unfortunate ones.
I also wonder if our parents paid for us to be at Suntrap, or was it part of the national health thing.
It must have been beneficial as I've survived to the ripe old age of 79 and I'm still in reasonable health!