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Leysdown Arcades
I spent the school holidays at my grandparents' bungalow 'Cartref' in Eastern Road just off the high street during the 1960s. They were Sid and Gert Burton and knew a lot of the local characters like Kipper Tom. I had wonderful times down there running wild around the Island and trying to win a few pence on the machines to buy chips. Happy memories.
Bliss!
My Aunt Maggie lived at 1 Easton Road (Halfway down the High Street towards the beach, turn left at the newsagent into Easton Road). Sadly, it appears the road is no longer there according to maps. Surely the road featured in the photograph is called The Promenade?
I was born there in 1945, and mum and I spent our summer holidays at Aunt Maggie's bungalow. I have so many fond memories of Leysdown before it became commercialised. My last visit there was in 1959, and I haven't been back. The photo is just as I remember, especially the motorbike and sidecar.
Mines
I remember the family going on holiday to Leysdown. It poured with rain. We arrived by coach from London and I helped Dad carry the cases to a chalet on a camp site. My main memory was seeing signs stating that certain beaches were unsafe due to mines. Barbed wire kept you away from the beach.
Sam The Peanut Man And my Holidays in The 1960s
I love Leysdown. In fact when our boys were little we used to take them there. They in turn go there now. My dad couldn't drive so our uncle used to have a caravan on Harts Farm and we used to stay there. They were wonderful times. I've just remembered a boy from Stroods family had two caravans on Harts Farm. They were called Pixie and Dixie after the mice in 'Yogi Bear'. I remember playing Bingo with metal bottle tops in a hut. The caravan was actually situated next to the men's toilets which was quite strange. Mum and Dad used to tell me and my sister to keep the curtains drawn on that side. Me and my sister used to play on the machines in the Golden Horseshoe. They had Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Diana Dors photos on the machines. We used to go on the beach all the time and on Sundays there would be a Sunday school singalong. I recall singing "Wise man builds his house... Read more
Holiday Park
I am from Brigend, South Wales, and for some reason my mother decided on our summer holidays to take us to the Isle of Sheppey, why at this time we would travel that (in those days) distance I do not know. I was 16 and my sister was 8. I remember staying outside a railway station overnight, sleeping in our old car, and the following morning after a cuppa made on a primus making our way to a holiday camp. My memories are a little vague about this but I remember staying in a rudimentary hut with my sister and my parents next door. There was in the camp an upstairs lounge with a great view over the estuary with one of the Second World War fortifications in the estuary. I sat there for hours listening to Radio Caroline which could not have been that far away. (We could not get that in Wales and as it was the cutting edge it was great to listen to). Myself and my... Read more
Kent memories
Warden Point
I used to live in Cherry Tree Cottage, Warden Point in 1930, my father was Jock Martin, a sergeant in the R.A.F. stationed in Eastchurch. My mother was Phylis Woollett, daughter of Frank Woollett, mine host of the Crooked Billet. After the death of my mother in 1934 we moved from Warden to Eastchurch and resided at the bottom of the village in the house on bend on the Laysdown road by the old village hall. I have visited Warden Point in 2004 and found that there is now a new Cherry Tree Cottage where our old house was situated and my grandfather's old house which used to be on the other side of the Wheatsheaf no longer exists, which is a shame, it was a lovely old house. Both my mother and grandmother were interned in the village church but on my visit I was unable to find the graves due to the condition of the graveyard. I had two older sisters, Mona and Marian, both of them have... Read more
Eastchurch Garage
My family owned the garage seen on the right of this photo and were living here when I was born. It went under the name of DH Beard and Son and my grandfather started the business in the 1930s. He also ran the local taxi company which included the school runs from around the island. There were many changes over the years until the business was sold in 1963. I have many happy childhood memories of holidays on the Isle of Sheppey!
