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  dersingham 1954 c
A memory of Dersingham, Norfolk

We lived in the village shop Virginia Stores owned by Peatling & Cawdron.  My dad won the Vernons Football Pools in 1955  a great sum of  £505.6s,  my sister and I had new bikes, and mum and dad went for a holiday to Blackpool! with her new fur coat.  We moved to Brancaster after that when they bought the pub there.
I remember going to Sandringham with the school to sing carols at Christmas and winning prizes at the flower show for handwriting and needlework,
walking through the woods picking chestnuts and ducking when the Royal family rode past on horseback, the Queen Mother coming to the school and watching out for her driving an old shooting break around the village and
running through the church yard at dusk frightened silly by the bats that swooped around but not daring to be scared in front of our friends.

Last edited: 10/05/2007 09:37 by Carolynn Langley  

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  Year: 1954 The railway at Heacham
A memory of Heacham, Norfolk

My father had holidays in Heacham in the 1920s. I visited as a young boy in the 1950s staying in an old railway carriage on the beach side of the station. My favourite activity was sitting by the station and watching the trains, rather than going to the beach. Mostly these were hauled by D16s - what a pity none have been preserved. What a pity  the line to Hunstanton was closed in less enlightened times - it could have become a very popular railway today.
Later we moved to caravans behind the beach. We now caravan at Mundesley but, try and go home via Hunstanton and Heacham. I have such fond memories.

Last edited: 20/08/2008 09:07 by Alan Tanner  

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  Year: 1955 Burt and Aunty May's Shellfish Stall
A memory of Hunstanton, Norfolk

My Uncle Burt and Aunty May had a shellfish stall in Hunstanton on the sea front by the old red sea mine.  I would only have been a mere youngster then. I can remember going with my Uncle Burt Wells to Wells-Next-to-Sea to pick up the bags of cockles for the stall. I can remember the Kit Kat Club down Seagate Road.  My Uncle Burt and Aunty May lived down Seagate Road. I lived in Waveney Road with my mum and dad. My dad used to work with Geoff Searle on the 'Ducks' and was also in the Fire Service at Hunstanton during the floods.

Last edited: 28/07/2008 15:04 by David Burrows  

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North Wootton, the Post Office 1908 (ref: 60035)
Tiny Post Office.
A memory of North Wootton, Norfolk

Mr and Mrs Raines ran a postal service from this tiny shed at the bottom of their garden in 1908. The village was of course much smaller then: there were only four large families and no more than a dozen cottages. In the late 1940s the post office moved to a building in the main street. Later, the shed was used to house chickens before finally rotting away.

Posted: 06/04/2006 16:20 by The Frith Memory Archivist  

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  Fun at Proudfoot's
A memory of Old Hunstanton, Norfolk

I can remember walking up Sea Lane with my brothers, and visiting the little shop owned by Mrs Proudfoot, in the hope of getting some groceries for our parents (and sweets for us)! Everything about the shop was quaint, from the layout of the shop floor to the scales on the counter. It wasn't always the best stocked shop, so if ever Mrs Proudfoot had sold out of something, or we needed something she didn't sell, we had to gingerly walk passed her shop window and buy the goods from the Post Office shop instead. Then when we walked back down Sea Lane, we would have to hide the groceries from her view when passing the shop window again!

When the weather was nice, our family used to spend the day making sand castles and playing games on the Old Hunstanton beach. It was always a painful affair to get to the sand and sea though - the cobbled pathway leading to the beach was much trickier to walk on than it is today, and not much fun in bare feet!

Posted: 27/11/2007 20:38 by Jenny Davies  

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