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Palma Ault: Services, Gasworks, 1910s, 1920s

My grandfather used to come on a coal barge to the Gasworks and used to bring his daughter, my mother…. who met my father, Harry Holloway, who lived in Yarmouth, and so they were married.  Harry was in the Navy in the Med for 2 years and I was named ‘Palma’ after the Palma in Majorca. Palma Ault nee Holloway b 1927

Bridge opening for coal boat

Bridge opening for coal boat