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I went to Hayling Island Suntrap School When I was Five Years Old Around 1957/1958, I remember one boy hand his head hit by a train while looking out of the train window on a school trip and seeing blood running down the train ...Read more

A memory of Hayling Island by Michael Raftery

Yes I remember getting chips from the chip shop when Mr and Mrs Pellerade had it - I knew Sandra and she had an older brother, Maurice. My friend, Sally Yarnold, lived just behind there in a cottage. We ...Read more

A memory of Bishopstoke by lynne006

I do not have that many clear memories from my stay there, I have a defence mechanism of blotting things out from my mind. I do not know exactly when I was there some time between 1974 - 1977. The only name I remember from that time ...Read more

A memory of Barwick by Yuri Buxton

I used to live opposite you at No1 North Road. I am Mary Dodgson. I spent all the summers of the late forties leading the donkeys and ponies up and down the beach or with Rose Cummings and her son, Les Smith, who had the horse and ...Read more

A memory of West Kirby in 1948 by Mary Vroegop

After being de-requisitioned and restored at the end of WW2, the Overstrand Hotel was a massive building standing only yards from the cliff edge, it opened, then closed, then re-opened with a new bar called “Bubbles Bar” to cater for the ...Read more

A memory of Overstrand by ronaldjackson08

I was/am the lad on the right! I discovered this picture a few years back in a superb Frith's book on Kent. Alongside me is my mate Ray. I think the year is more like 1957 or it could the summer of 1956. It was during those lovely days ...Read more

A memory of Sheerness in 1957 by Derek Gallagher

My grandparents moved to Frinton-On-Sea in 1959 and for the whole of my childhood I spent a week or so of every school summer holiday with them in their bungalow. I clearly remember walking ...Read more

A memory of Frinton-On-Sea by Margaret Drinkwater

I can also remember the ice-cream parlour from when I was little, we used to stop here on the way back from the beach, we lived in Broadstairs. In fact at present (2011) the parlour still kind of exists, but is closed! Most of ...Read more

A memory of Birchington in 1976 by Tony B

My grandfather Walter owned the Mr Softie ice-cream van that operated around Rossal beach & Fleetwood. I am looking for anyone that may have pictures of that van on the sea wall there? Gary

A memory of Fleetwood in 1966 by Gary Hurst

We camped at Littleham, with only my immediate family in the farmer's field. We collected straw from the farmer, and stuffed our palliasses for beds. The straw was returned to the barn when we left. Each morning ...Read more

A memory of Littleham by Ann Martyr