Nostalgic memories of Pilning's local history

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Saturday morning my sister Cheryl and I and friends would walk down to Severn Beach from Redwick. We went to the pictures which was on the corner opposite the pub The Salmon. If the weather was nice we all went to the outside pool in the afternoon. I remember that I used to jump off the diving board in the deep end of course yet could only doggy paddle. Severn Beach used to have a great fair which was where we spent our early Saturday evenings.
Leaving school / starting work... grown up at last! Joining youth club at the Zion chapel, Gordon Ellis taught us to dance, and Auntie May Holbrook was always at hand with refreshments, a chat anything! My first boyfriend was Vernon and after a year or two a local girl, Eileen, told me of her unusual engagement and impending wedding! Soon to be married to a sailor who had been away 2 and 1/2 years in the Far ...see more