Recent content by DaveInston

Hiya Keith, Yes I've been retired 5 years now, since I was 62.Loving every minute of it; every day's Saturday now mate. How a out you?

Hi Bob, Sorry I missed this, I haven't been here so often these days. Pat, Jean and Bernadette are my cousins, they lived at number 6, next door to us at number 5. Their Mum Eileen died, as you say, in 1956 when I was 4. In fact all the houses bar one in Alexandra terrace were occupied by my...

My Dad worked on Maintenance at H. Samuels from about 1962 'til 1968. It was their Head Office in Hunters Road, I remember the bridge across the road with a clock. I guess it's still there?

Better late than never eh Lyn !?

I remember the metal bashing firm that Baldings became in the 60s. As kids we used to rob their scrap pile for thin metal "E's" that we used as lethal "skimmers" . I now know that these "E's" were laminates for electrical transformer cores.

There were only 5 houses in Alexandra Terrace Marie, numbers 2 to 6. Number 1 was a bomb peck blown up in WW2. My family lived in most of the houses during the 50's through into the 60's, the exception was number 2 which was Mr and Mrs Hill, we lived at number 5 up until summer 1968. My...

Thanks Lyn, Yes I do have memories as a kid, but I'd assumed that, with all the development since I've been living down in Somerset this last 40 odd years, that it had been routed through pipes/sewers and had disappeared. It's nice to know it's still there.

Apologies if this has already been answered. Where exactly was the Brook in Hockley Brook and when did it disappear?

I don't recall the first time I had ever seen the sea, but I do remember the first time I saw the sea without Mom and Dad. As a family we'd been to Weston and Weymouth a number of times but when I was 15, in 1967, me and my mate Colin Beech went to Weston by ourselves. We'd got a huge Government...

I moved to live in Weston-super-Mare in 1968 with my Mum and Dad, still here now. Since then I've seen the sea about 3 or 4 times!

Thanks Lyn, This time it only took me 4 months to log on here again! Better late than never I guess. I've been retired now over a year and do you know what? The old cliche that says, " when you retire you don't know how you found time to go to work" is actually correct. As kids we used to...

Does anyone have information on number 1 Alexander Terrace that was destroyed in World War 2?

Thanks Lyn Much Love xxx David

Hello all, It's coming up to the 8th anniversary of this thread. Anyone up for a meet up this summer? Lyn? Keith? David

You gonna take me for a pie and a pint in that same pub Lyn? What was it called again? I thought it was Great! Did you know that Timbo lived at no. 60 Brougham Street and his back garden directly overlooked the back of The Vine in Villa Street. I remember a naughty boy story about that. I...