My Memories Of Cromer

A Memory of Cromer.

Born in 1947 in Suffield Park, as was, Cottage Hospital on Overstrand Road. Lived in Links Avenue until 1959. My memories are vast. I went to school in the centre of Cromer which is now converted to senior citizens accommodation. I have been back to Cromer two or three times, the first time after 30 years. My husband and I took a nostalgic trip to my old home and the area where I played as a child. My parents divorced in 1958 and my mother remarried in 1959 and we moved to Chester. My father, "Tim" Ernest Sylvester Bartram was a trumpet player in a band after the war and also worked as a signalman. He had been a Sergeant in the Royal Air Force when my mother met him and he had been a POW in Germany for some time after being the only one left alive after his Halifax crashed in Germany. I have his Log Book, makes interesting reading.
I remember my grandparents Ernest (senior) and Emma. I remember also where they lived in Central Road and we also went to see if the house was still there, which it is although the railway sidings at the back of the house is now a Supermarket. My grandfather used to take me through a little gate in his back garden onto the sidings and he used to tell me about the railways and its history. I was only a little girl so my memories are vague. Little things stick out in my mind and smells and sights can take me back to those times.
Ernest (senior) was quite high up in the Council and I think Emma also worked for the council, on the Board of Governors (?). Also I believe my Grandfather was involved in the aftermath of the floods of 1953.
My father Tim worked for Rusts of Suffield Park, Cromer (a grocers shop) after he came out of the RAF.
I had an Aunt and Uncle and cousins living in Cromer before I moved to Chester on my parents divorce. Unfortunately I never heard from them again until seeing this website where I found I had a cousin called Phillip.

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