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| 11 Nov | Robin & Barbara Fairservice | Prince George, BC, Canada | Have found your great site and it brought back many memories of a few years when we lived in Herne Bay (1951 to 1960). I went to Simon Langton and my wife attended Canterbury Technical School. My sister, who still lives in HB went to Greenhill Secondary Modern. Our parents lived there for many years after we moved on to various places. Glad to read that you liked Vancouver. We find that now it is overrun with people, having experienced living in the wide open spaces of the Central Interior of BC for over 20 years. We looked at the old pictures and tried to remember names from the sports teams but without much success. We will have to dig out some old Boys Brigade pictures for you.
Hi guys. Sorry to have waited so long to post this but I got your photos, which are very cool. I've posted them up in the Old Views page. I especially liked the Boys' Brigade spaceship carnival float. You really don't see floats like that in our carnivals, which is a shame. |
| 13 Oct | Pat Todd
| Whitstable | Steve, The wonders of modern science and an urge to browse has led me to your site! Good to see you are in the land of the living. Didn't realise Mum & Dad had celebrated their Golden. Congrats to them but hang on......that might make you nearly as old as me! Thanks for the Rugby Club mention online. We are in our 25th season. Still keep busy or should I say busier seeing as I made Lord Mayor of Canterbury last May. If you are passing and have a mo knock the door if the car is on the drive.
Hello Pat. |
| 10 Oct | Christine Punter | Aukland, NZ | Hi Steve, been a while since I last wrote. I hope everyone is well and how are those beautiful cats of yours? Spoilt rotten, I'll bet. Regarding a posting from Lawrence Blake on September 3rd; that name rings a bell. I think I went to school with young Lawrence but I can't remember which school; St Mary's (Whitstable) or Greenhill (as it was in the "old days"). The old memory cells are buzzing away just like an itch which won't go away! If you are reading this Lawrence, please solve the mystery.
Hello, Christine. Long time, no hear. Good to know you're still out there. How about that? Not many emails for a while, then two appear within a week of each other, both mentioning Greenhill comprehensive. |
| 9 Oct | David Johnson | York | I lived in Herne Bay for near on 26yrs until work took me up North. I have lived in Yorkshire for near on 20yrs now. I was bought up in Gordon Road in what I found out to be old fisherman cottages, known as Klondyke Cottages, at the Spencer Road end of the street. I went to school at Kings Road Primary and then on to what was the 'infamous' Greenhill secondary modern school, now I understand a very sought after school! I played cricket for nearly ten years for Herne Bay, our home ground being at the War Memorial Park. My first drink in a public house was at the Royal Oak at the bottom of my street. I then drank reguarly at the Queens Hotel at the foot of Mickelburgh Hill, now a retirement Home? As I got older my Friday nights took me from the Ship to the Richmond Inn then finally to the Queens occasionally hopping in other pubs if the mood took us. I worked for some years in the High Street at Alan Knott Sports, now an Estate Agents. My good friend worked in what was then 'Gowers & Jones' (now Gatefield Sounds). Greensted the Butchers was where my family purchased the 'Sunday joint', paid for at the little wooden booth in the corner of the shop. Opposite Greensteads was 'our' paper shop, Scotts, which I belive is still there? As a lad, Jack & Jills, the toy shop on the opposite corner from the Rose pub in Mortimer street used to be a favourite haunt. I used to make model kits and one of the owners of that shop was a brilliant model maker, displaying his finished kits in the shop window! I could go on; your site has triggered off a nostalgic boost..... I have many happy memories of the Bay. Many years spent in the park and on the beach. It was and I expect still isn't the most exciting place to be but it was a good place to have been raised in during the sixties and seventies. Thanks for the memories!
Hi David. Thanks for that. You are more than welcome to ramble. If this little site helps rekindle some memories, then it's done a good job. |
| 4 Oct | Richard Ing | Herne Bay | What an excellent site, which I came across it my accident when surfing Goggle. How nice to see something positive about Herne Bay for a change. I've lived here for the past eight years having grown up in Faversham and I really love the town. All the publicity (and money) focuses on Whitstable, so it was a pleasure to see your residents view portraying the positive aspects of the town. I take it you no longer live in the area? I really love the day to day photographs of the town. It's something I've been toying with doing myself so that I can show my two sons, four years and six months respectively, what the town looked like when they were growing up. Hopefully the forthcoming regeneration project that Canterbury City Council is proposing will do something to add some of the sheen back to the Bay. A fantastic site, both on a technical and content basis.
Thank you, Richard. It's always nice to get positive feedback. |
| 3 Oct | Yvonne Bolton | My family came from Herne Bay. My uncle lived in Mill Lane and Peartree Close was named after the farm that he and my father owned. I would really love to see a recent picture of 1 Mill Lane. Does any one remember Walter Bolton? I also want to say how much I have enjoyed your web site. The photos bring back many memories.
Thanks for that, Yvonne. | |
| 3 Oct | Sue Ewing | I have a painting of Granary House, which is signed by C Tilley. On the back is written: THE GRANARY HOUSE WHITSTABLE WITH BEST WISHES FROM E. & C.TILLEY 1960 Can you tell me anything about the Tilleys?
Hello Sue. |
