COMMENTS

June 2019

By John Hills

VINALL FAMILY (View page)

". Hello Mark, I found this while browsing the site. Rob is my brother and yes Charlie Vinall who lived in Northdown Road was our father..."

By: Val Lidster (Vinall)      Added: 30/06/2019

BRIGHTON (View page)

"You might have known my older brother Barry, then, David. But by late 1964 I think he'd moved to the Falaise. I think the debate over w..."

By: Andy Gilbert      Added: 30/06/2019

BRIGHTON (View page)

"I sailed as 4th engineer aboard SS Brighton in the latter part of 1964. The first crossing was a trainload of Welsh rugby supporters going t..."

By: David Balchin      Added: 29/06/2019

WW2 BOMB DAMAGE SECOND AVENUE (View page)

"Ernie Hi, how are you? I am very interested in the photo of 29/31 Second Avenue. As you know Paul Bishop had been researching our family an..."

By: Graham Norris     Added: 27/06/2019

MEECHING INFANT'S SCHOOL (View page)

"Hi Julie, I can fill in four of the missing names from the Meeching Infants 66/67 photo. Extreme left in back row next to Mark Baker is Ian ..."

By: Steve Meredith      Added: 27/06/2019

NEWHAVEN COUNTY SECONDARY SCHOOL (View page)

"Furthest right holding the cup, an old friend I haven’t heard of in a long time, Carol Crouch."

By: Val Lidster (Vinall)      Added: 26/06/2019

FALAISE AT MARINE WORKSHOPS - Part 2 (View page)

"I found a 'flyer' leaflet at an antiques fair  for ''Falaise'', advertising cruises, mentioning ''Week-..."

By: Catherine M     Added: 26/06/2019

RAF AIR-SEA RESCUE UNIT NEWHAVEN (View page)

"Would be interested to correspond with Steve Hale re photos etc. I have some that he want to add to the library.  Jeff,   I ..."

By: Jeff Hill      Added: 24/06/2019

CAR COLLECTION (View page)

"What ship Andy ?  That's the small freight-only ferry, Capitaine Le Goff. The black hull means that it's her first season on the..."

By: Rob Patten      Added: 24/06/2019

R.A.F. AIR SEA RESCUE (ASR), MARINE CRAFT SECTION (MCS Unit 1107) (View page)

"I find this very interesting. My dads cousin was in the ASR based at Newhaven, Joseph Ian Morrison during WW2, he would to turn up at our home..."

By: Ian A. Watson     Added: 14/06/2019

SOUTH HEIGHTON (View page)

"I must have been in that darts team around that time. A few years before I used to catch eels for Buck to make jellied eels."

By: Terry Howard     Added: 13/06/2019

NEWHAVEN BOYS SCHOOL (View page)

"I'm not getting much luck with the team photos that I need for my book on the Boys School. Here is the story about another school team ..."

By: Glenn Sheppard     Added: 13/06/2019

SOUTH HEIGHTON (View page)

"Seeing that photo reminded me that I played darts for Hampden Arms in around '66-'67. Think Landlords name was 'Buck' Charma..."

By: Paul Blackman     Added: 12/06/2019

FUNNELL'S THE BAKERS (View page)

"My aunt Nancy, whose married name was Woods, worked here for many years during and after the WWII .. is she remembered?"

By: Tony Edwards      Added: 12/06/2019

NEWHAVEN COUNTY SECONDARY SCHOOL (View page)

"We now know that it was definitely my sister Elizabeth, usually known as Liz, who shared the Dean's Award with Rod that year."

By: Andy Gilbert      Added: 12/06/2019

NEWHAVENS' BEDFORD FIRE ENGINE (1977 - 90) BEING RESTORED (View page)

"Hello Alec, Regarding your earlier message, I do remember the two new Bedford TK dustcarts your family had; they were unusual by then in be..."

By: Bruce Macphee     Added: 11/06/2019

RAILWAY QUAY - c1900 (View page)

"Railway Quay page The locomotive is for the Chemin de Fer L'Ouest and would be one of a number exported from Sharp Stewart & Co., ..."

By: Chris Capewell      Added: 11/06/2019

EASTSIDE MEMORIES FROM the 1930's (View page)

"Thanks for jogging my (seventy year old) memory.  Jingle went something like this.   Hurrah for Beetox! What a delightful smell...."

By: Dennis Bray      Added: 09/06/2019

NEWHAVEN COUNTY SECONDARY SCHOOL (View page)

"I think you may be right, that looks like my older sister Elizabeth. And the girl in the centre definitely looks like one of her friends..."

By: Andy Gilbert     Added: 08/06/2019

MEECHING JUNIOR SCHOOL (View page)

"The top photo of "cricket team"..my self top right.  First of all these ten lads are suited and booted hardly for cricket..theres no ..."

By: Michael Parker     Added: 05/06/2019

A.A RAYMOND (View page)

"From your description it sounds like the watchman was Chris Day from Seaford. He was aged with a hook.  "

By: William Still      Added: 03/06/2019

NEWHAVEN BOYS SCHOOL CRICKET TEAM 1948 (View page)

"The chap in the back row was Brian Troak 1935-1998 and not his brother Malcolm."

By: Troak      Added: 03/06/2019