Thorpeness, Westgate c.1955

Photo ref: T38001

Does anybody still remember Thorpeness Junior Day School? It was situated in the right hand building of the Country Club. From about 1953 to 1961. My mother Dorothy Allan was the head teacher. My name is Bridget. We all sat in the same classroom, though the Nursery class was downstairs, run by a Mrs Mayor. We had assembly in the big Hall which had a stage and put on plays and dances there. We had our sports days in ...see more

the house in the clouds you can still walk right to the fence now that surrounds it. such a beautiful structure. opposite there was windmill when I came to visit Suffolk in 2010 it was then up for sale! the duck pond still there or boating lake which what is called.

My Aunty had a house right on the dunes. We stayed with her every summer until I was about 16 or 17 and a lot of our time was spent on the beach. When the tide went out there was sand beyond the shingle and we used to spend hours building sand castles, and swimming. There were always family and friends there, everyone came to Aunty Vera's house. So there was often a big group of kids and we had a whale of a ...see more

Picking Blackberries next to the House in the Clouds and then going back to make Blackberry and Apple pies with my aunty at her house in Thorpeness.