Cub Camp Seasalter In The 50's
A Memory of Seasalter.
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, please bear with me now being 77, can I please ask if I am correct or not? My memories seem to recall being able to walk out of the field the huts were in and under a bridge and onto the beach, and something I do really remember was at low tide walking/wading out to a German bomber that had been shot down and crashed into the sea offshore. We had the time of our lives breaking bits off the wrecked aircraft and carrying our trophies back to the huts where the older adults with us, washed and cleaned the trophies and fixed them to the walls of the huts, and I now wonder what happened to the those treasures, Health & Safety had not been invented then.
I have returned several times, but with the redevelopment of all that part of the coast since that time cannot seem to find where I am looking for, well, if any of it still exists, and any and all info would be appreciated.
I know some photos were taken at that time, but I cannot find any of that area taken then at that spot.
Gerry
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