Bottling And Living Near The Seafront

A Memory of Clacton-On-Sea.

We lived in St Vincent Road, went bottling collecting bottles left on the beach and got the deposits back from the kiosks on the beach front, the some, the mean buggers only gave us half when they realised we were making a few bob, however we beat them by taking all the Macphersons bottles back to the plant in St Andrew Road, they paid full price and sometimes you got a couple of part filled pop bottles for your efforts, The donkey lady from the ride on donkeys took them to a field in Queens Road at the bottom where they were kept it’s all a long time ago we delivered suitcases from the coach station for families to the boarding houses together with ones to Butlin’s, I had a winter earner as well I took Carpets from the cleaners, Eastmans in West Avenue to the owners Happy Days!!