Saltfleet, Main Road And Village Centre c.1965
Photo ref:
S479059
Photo ref:
S479059
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There are now no shops on this corner. Traffords Stores (right) is now a house, and so is the General Stores (left), where both the window and door are bricked up. The Crown Inn is on the extreme right behind the trees.
An extract from Lincolnshire Living Memories.
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For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Saltfleet
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My first visit to Saltfleet was as a 12 year old in 1956. A relative , Kitty Scherdel was managing the Sunnydale site for local farmer George Tuxworth and had recently moved a converted bus there from South Yorkshire and we stayed in that. There was one other converted bus and 3 caravans on the site and a chicken hut.. The old lookout tower om the beach was still in good condition then, and the tide ...see more
I spent many happy years at Kingswood Caravan Site (now Tuxworth Holiday Park). My nanna & granddad (Henry "Sailor" & Nellie Toyne) started using the site in the 1960's until the 1990's, althrough my granddad died in 1988, my nanna continued until her mobility let her down. Facilities at Kingswood would have been considered "primitive" today. No electricity, other than the ...see more
We started on Sunnydale after leaving Sea View, thank you Peter Scott,It was the start of 35yrs of magic in my life. Cockles, eels, fishing, canooing and many memories of female company. Followed on with more wonderful times with my wife and 3 boys. Such wonderful times will live with me forever,,
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 ...see more
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