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Brian Pomroy: Early Days

I remember Billy Doe used to walk by our house at 5.30 every night with a gun under his arm to shoot  pigeons to eat. Brian Pomroy b 1937

This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Billy Doe, Brian Pomroy, Harbourmaster, railway line on July 5, 2013 by Jill Cowley.

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A selection of memories

  • Free Time : Brownies and Guides, and a special occasion
  • Carnival week 1949 : Pier Shore
  • The Dashwood Family and Yarmouth Church
  • The Dashwood family of ‘The Mount’
  • WWII Brownies War Effort: Delia Whitehead
  • WWII Childhood Memories: Sheltering in Air Raids
  • WWII: Thorley Marsh mystery
  • WWII Firewatch : Delia Whitehead
  • WWII Canadians at Rofford House: Delia Whitehead
  • Delia Whitehead nee Hunt :Confirmation at St. James’ Church
  • Granny Hunt: Home nursing and more
  • Doctor Drummond, Yarmouth Doctor
  • Delia Whitehead: Harvest Festival at St. Swithin’s Thorley
  • Delia Whitehead : Picking snowdrops at Thorley old church
  • Delia Whitehead: War years at Yarmouth School