Wartime, North Somercotes

A Memory of Saltfleet.

My father was Rev R G Cowie, who was before Rev Reece Jones. We came to North Somercotes in 1939 from Newcastle and I had an idyllic childhood in the vicarage. I remember a bomb fell in South Somercotes, I also remember picking up silver foil from the lawn in the mornings. Tank traps on the beaches.I too, remember the Clayton brothers who delivered coal, and I think a Mr Stones who was a farmer. There was Miss Chappell, the Armstrongs who lived opposite the vicarage and a Miss Akrill who lived near us. There were two Miss Smiths' in Front Street. Dr Gabbe was the doctor who dispensed medicine by means of a tablet in a bottle filled up with water. Maud Lamming was the post lady who brought letters and medicines round on her bike. We knew the Tacey family in Meals Road, the best - Joyce, Harold and Lucy (who has only recently died), we miss her terribly. Sadly I have no links with North Somercotes since Lucy's passing.