Seasalter, Joy Lane c.1955

Photo ref: S524050

Living in Hackney in east London as a kid at that time surrounded by bomb sites, it was great when being in the 6th Hackney cub pack, we were told we could go to Seasalter in Kent for a weeks camp. Coach down there, and when we arrived we were billeted in what looked like ex army wooden huts where we ate and slept in what to us kids aged 6 to about 8, was a totally different world. At this point, ...see more

My parents had a caravan at The Old Coastguards close to Seasalter Sailing Club from 50s to 70s. It had only 3 caravans on it. I regularly got up early as a child to accompany the site owner, a super guy, while he followed the tide out to put out fishing lines. The next morning going out early morning to get the days catch. My parents seemed unaware of the shifting sands danger at low tide and I had several ...see more

Seasalter - A place name from the past for 2 reasons. No.1 - in the 1960s my paternal grandmother and grandfather had retired from Tooting, Sarf London to Bapchild, Sittingbourne and had acquired a beach hut close by the boating lake. Dad could only afford summer holidays for me, mum and sister by staying with his mum and dad and driving down to the beach hut each day. Yes, winkles from the sea boiled ...see more

This was the first holiday of being away from my home in Hatfield Heath. We all went to church on Sunday, & I think this holiday was subsidised by the church to give local children a holiday which they wouldnt otherwise have. This was in 1960s. I was about 6years old?