Summer Holidays

A Memory of Salcombe.

Browsing through the Book "I Remember when..." published by The Francis Frith Collection, I was so delighted to see a picture of The Quayside in 1896 at Salcombe, Devon. There standing proud above the quay was 'Harbour Lights', the home and guest-house of my brother-in-law Syd Waldron and my sister Betty. What a feast of memories the picture evoked. Sadly Syd died in 2005 and my sister is now in a care home but the wonderful holidays all our families spent with them every summer for over forty years will never be forgotten.
Salcombe was a magical place for our children as they grew up with crabbing on the quayside, picnics and sandcastles on Millbay, wandering round the lovely shops and sitting in Uncle Syd's beautiful garden eating ice cream. The view over the estuary was wonderful and as Syd often reminded us "the finest in all the world". This was some testament from a man who had travelled the world in the Royal Navy.
Thanks for reminding me again of so many happy holidays spent with Syd and Betty.

Eileen Combellack, Loughborough