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Beales Family Tree
My great-great-grandfather George Beales owned the Pleasure Boat Inn. He ran a wherry boat from there in about 1890. I am looking for more information about this and for pictures of the Beales family - in anyone can help, please get in touch. Mike Beales mabeales@aol.com
Hot Summers
Growing up in the village the summers always seemed hot! This photo shows my dad Len on the left walking to the right. So much more memories come to the fore, even the registration of the Commer van on the right.
Edward Shreeve, Coastguard
Eddy Shreeve was my great-great uncle, he was a coastguard at Winterton during the 1950s. He then went on to be a coastguard at Yarmouth. He retired to Walton on Naze befor he died in 1985 aged 78.
Does anyone have any information or stories about Eddy? We would be very grateful if you would email some to us.
Yours sincerely,
Erica Jordan
PS. Also my great-grandad Walter Shreeve was a swimming coach in Great Yarmouth and Norwich in the 1940s, he coached at the Gorleston pool and the Eagle, Swan and Samson swimming pools in Norwich. He also did weight lifting, boxing and wrestling. He coached many national champions in swimming.
Walter was born in 1905 he died in 1955 aged 50. If anybody has any information or stories about Walter please email me.
Yours sincerely,
Erica Jordan
Walter Shreeve
Walter Shreeve (Tiny) was my great-grandad, he was a one-time weight lifter, wrestler and boxer and a swimming coach in Great Yarmouth and Norwich. As a swimming coach he had many national champions. He coached at the Gorleston Pool and also the Eagle, Swan and the Samson swimming pools in Norwich. He was born in 1905, and he died in 1955 aged 50.
If anyone has any information or stories about Walter please could you email me.
Yours sincerely,
Erica Jordan
Eddy Shreeve
Eddie Shreeve was my grandad. He was posted to Walton on Naze Coast guard. It was here that his daughter met her future husband, who was also living in the coast guard houses in Walton. My mum and dad, still live there. I have put 1975 as the year of the memory as that was the year that I was born and still have a clear memory of all the years I shared with my grandad. After leaving the coastguards houses both sets of grandparents lived at the bottom of our road so I saw them every day. He died when I was ten years old, and my nan, Queenie passed when I was 16 in 1991.
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