My 18th Birthday.
A Memory of Eltham.
This photo was taken at the time I was at Shooter's Hill GS and my stepfather was stationed here as it was the HQ for the RAEC (Royal Army Education Corps). As officer's family we occasionally visited the Palace, which had then an amazing billiards room in the cellar. On my 18th birthday I was treated to dinner in the great hall with the other officers .. a strange experience for me altogether ... my stepfather plying me with my first legal drinks...he was the wobbly one going home on the bus to Woolwich!
Now the whole palace, originally Henry V's country retreat, is a tourist attraction, a far better use, in my view.
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