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HMS Ganges

Bristol Arms c1955 Ref: S581005
Bristol Arms c1955
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Until the mid '70s Shotley Gate was the home of HMS Ganges, a Royal Navy training establishment. As 15 year old boys under training in 1964 we were allowed to visit the Post Office (see photograph in this collection) to draw money out of our Post Office savings books - usually to buy food of some sort as Ganges food was so bad!! The Bristol Arms was out of bounds to us boys but I did finally get a drink there about 30 years later.

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A memory of Shotley Gate in Suffolk shared on Friday, 22nd December 2006.

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