1950 Till 2013

A Memory of Teignmouth.

I am 70 now and since 1950 have visited Teignmouth regularly, what lovely memories this place has for me. My childhood visits with Sunday school coach outings from Norton Fitzwarren in Somerset, I am sure many others reflect on those simpler times when we were happy with little. Many other visits with mum and dad in our 1936 Wolseley, each trip almost an adventure. Then my youth in the 60's camping at Smugglers Lane Caravan Park run by Denis Fairweather, and camping also at Oaklands Dawlish run by Miss Copp. I vividly remember about 1964 a dance in the Den Pavilion when there was a disturbance between two girls who knocked the fire extinguisher off of the wall. As it fell it set it off, it had a short flexible nozzle on it and the foam was spraying everywhere as the band carried on playing 'The House of the Rising Sun' by the Animals, totally ignoring the disturbance. I return regularly to Teignmouth and every time a plethora of wonderful memories come back to me and being an old nostalgic, I often wonder how many people who spent those times with me, walk past me in the street and having changed we no longer know each other. What lovely memories Teignmouth holds for me of days with my parents and childhood friends, wilder fun times in my youth and now lovely sedate days with my wife.

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