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Eileen Smith: Free Time at Love Shore 1940s

Joy Cotton, Cynthia Lansdowne and Barbara Hayden at Love Shore

Joy Cotton, Cynthia Lansdowne and Barbara Hayden at Love Shore

 In the summer holidays there’d be maybe half a dozen mums with families, my mum, and Mrs Eames, she was the police constable’s wife at Yarmouth, and the Robinsons, down Love Shore, just down the road. We’d pack up picnics and spend all day there. The mums would be down there with their knitting and we’d be down there all the afternoon.  It was a safe beach because you had the jetties there. If you got swept down you went against the jetties. Eileen Smith nee Lansdowne b 1921

Serena Dias de Deus: Early Years

I was born in South Street in 1939 in an old house, Grove Cottage, next to Grove House. We had no bathroom so it was washing in a bowl daily and a bath in a large tin bath dragged into the warm kitchen on Saturday night.

Those were the days when we knew all our neighbours and helped each other out in hard times.  I remember many a delicious chocolate cake being passed over the wall of Grove House by Mrs Ablitt, –  the Ablitts owned the butchers shop in the High Street and were Mollie Mallett’s parents.

One of my very early memories was of Mrs Lansdowne on the other side making me a cardboard Snowman covered in cotton wool full of tiny little gifts all individually wrapped.

Serena nee Hunt b 1939

South St. 2013

South St. 2013