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I lived in the army camp in the Rearsby area - looking for it on the maps, but cannot find it. Does anyone have an idea where it was? I had great times there, most were wooden huts. One day, we had a lightning fire ball come in ...Read more

A memory of Rearsby in 1950 by John Potter

I remember going to the chip shop just across the road, opposite the entrance to the camp, also fishing for eels in the nearby sluice. We would also enter the sand castle competition on the beach. We used to travel to Mablethorpe by train and then get picked up by a special bus up to Trustville.

A memory of Trusthorpe in 1953 by John Prince

Even to this day if I hear the above I go back to Leverington. It is a Saturday Afternoon in June. We have all had a hard week picking strawberries - it is now time to relax, we are all sitting in the ...Read more

A memory of Leverington in 1959 by Mark Robinson

One Sunday, I and my friend Olga decided that we would try to hitch a ride to Hunstanton.When we got on to the highway, we could not believe the number of cars that drove past us. We were about to turn back when this old Ford ...Read more

A memory of Leverington in 1960 by Mark Robinson

I was stationed at RAF Thornaby from March 1954 until early 1957 when I was promoted and posted to RAF North Luffenhan in Rutland in preparation for the Suez campaign, which never came to be. Sadly, that air base ...Read more

A memory of Thornaby-on-Tees in 1954

Our school, Park Modern Secondary, was situated in Barking Essex just outside of the east end of London. Each year, we had school camp at Sweets farm on the top of Dundry Hill, where we would camp for two weeks. We were told repeatedly ...Read more

A memory of Dundry in 1963 by Christopher Bowers

I have the fondest memories of Caister on Sea. We used to have a week there every year and my sister and I were the only kids in our street that had a holiday every year. Like most people in the East End of ...Read more

A memory of Caister-on-Sea in 1955 by Christopher Bowers

Hi I was wondering if anyone may know of the Rees family, hopefully Barry? I met Barry at Pontins holiday camp in Morecambe. We became good friends and ended up working in hotels then went on to work in the Isle ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill in 1964 by Denny Gill

While I was at university I spent the summer holiday vacations waitressing at Hopton's holiday camp,1952, 1953 and 1954. I am now living in Devon and am in the same drama as a male friend who had holidayed ...Read more

A memory of Hopton on Sea in 1952

I went to Albert Park school and then broughton modern and lived in grasmere st my name was Stamford then. We left when I was 15yrs old and came to Prestatyn as my Mum and Dad ran the Salford children's holiday camp. I have great ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1960 by Irene Crumb