The Chalk Pits

HI 1960 chalk pits dark tunnels blue lake .steam trains coming great days allan

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Hi just found this forum! I remember blue lake and the smaller one near by skinny dipping in it! Jumping off the cliff top must be mad and motorbiking along side the big cats (diggers)trying to get your bike up 'the layers'. Pea picking on 'Hoppies' farm ( I think 2 lanes of the A2 or the Eurostar rails are where the field was!) Playing footie on grass that was opposite the houses on Landseer Ave. Now a housing estate where the grass and field used to be. Not least school! (Went now and then!) NSFB or better known as Colyer Rd. GONE! All these memories and plenty more from the seventies in Northfleet with my mates Chris W Rob K Dave G and others.. p.s. almost forgot selling evening papers at the ferry terminal! ( Gravesend -Tilbury )

I remember visiting what we called the blue lake around 1960.
We found a boat there and had a paddle round in it.
There were no oars so we just used our hands.
The place was teaming with fish.

We used to live in Station street (1959 /1972. I remember the Blue Lake you could walk part way down the slope to the edge of the water could see almost all of the frame of the building in the water and it was the most beautiful blue, There was also The Half Moon of which I fell in when we were going fishing with my brother.
I remember the park going through the train station walking down to the swings and roundabout, the cricket playing on the weekend in the summer.
Attending Lawn Road School.
Some hard times but free to play wherever and wander without a worry.

A episode of Dr who was filmed there

I first fished Blue Lake aged 7, with my dad in 1950. Crystal clear water, huge perch, tench, rudd, roach, and eels. Enormous eels. I fished here regularly until 1966. Water pumped to the Blue Circle works returned via a waterfall beside the causeway. In 1963 I once caught two rudd over 3lbs in successive casts beside the causeway.
So many happy memories for a now
82 old.