Shared Memories of Minehead
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Year: 1959
My childhood in Minehead
My auntie Mary used to run the donkeys on the beach. I spent each school holiday in Minehead Swimming Pool and remember the Juke Box in the cafeteria area very well. When I first moved to Minehead in 1953 I lived in the old Gasworks Cottage right on the front down past the harbour. I would be very interested if anyone has a photo of the Old Gasworks before it was demolished in the late fifties early sixties ? I had 10 aunts and uncles in the Webber family , most of whom have passed on now, and several uncles worked voluntarily on the Minehead Lifeboat, with Uncle Alf being coxswain for a number of years and uncles Jack and Lionel plus Bill and Reg all helping out when necessary.
MY e mail address is : mickjohns22@aol.com if you have memories also from that era :O)
Posted: 17/06/2008 16:32 by Barry Johns
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Minehead, Butlins Holiday Camp c1965
(ref: M84253)
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Year: 1962
My time at the camp.
I was born in Minehead, and have also lived in Dunster, Williton, Timberscombe and Rodhuish, and attended all the schools. I worked in Butlins Holiday Camp at Minehead from 1962-1963.
This was the first full year that the Camp was opened. Most of the time I was working the rides in the amusement park. I helped build the Big Dipper, which was 70ft high, but is gone now. Some nights I sang on the stage under the name of Elvis the 2nd, singing mostly his and Cliff Richard songs. When I was at the camp there was three Dance Floors, One for Rock & Roll, another for ballroom dancing, which once held the Come Dancing competition for the BBC. And the third was for general activities. I danced every night in the ballroom, I was disappointed when I went back to the camp last year (2006) and found that there was no ballroom there now, just the building that housed them. I still go dancing twice a week where we now live. In the summer of 1963, I meat a girl from Wales who was on holiday at the camp. I moved to Wales and we got married, We have been married forty-three years, have two Children and Four Grand Children.
Last edited: 16/11/2007 16:06 by P Aden
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