COMMENTS 2020

July 2020

By John Hills

NEWHAVEN URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL (View page)

"This takes me  back  John. As children we used to lie in bed on sunday mornings and dad used to challenge us to name all the shops..."

By: Terry Howard                             Added: 31/07/2020

ROBERT RENVILLE (View page)

"Just to let you know that Joan Luttman (nee Renville) was my mother. Her and my dad, Albert Luttman, did in fact have 4 children. They were ..."

By: Rosemary Foster                        Added: 28/07/2020

GHOST STORIES (View page)

"In the late 1950s or early 60s there was a big scare in the town when there was a very loud sound like breathing coming from the cliff above..."

By: Val Lidster (Vinall)                       Added: 28/07/2020

SEA CADETS AT 'RAVENS AIT' (View page)

"I was a child living on Ravens Ait / TS Neptune from 1955 to 1957 or thereabouts, my father CPO Dick Tomlin worked maintaining the boats and..."

By: Richard Tomlin                             Added: 25/07/2020

GHOST STORIES (View page)

"Legless was pretty well known in the 70s I think there was a ghost up the fort in one of the tunnels. Maybe the Giddy tunnel as it was kno..."

By: Phil Wise                                      Added: 25/07/2020

NEWHAVEN HARBOUR (View page)

"The bottom picture was taken on the 12th July 1949. At the very top left of this picture can be seen the ground works have been started for ..."

By: John Hills                                      Added: 25/07/2020

MEECHING INFANTS SCHOOL (View page)

"The boy fourth from the left in the second row is my brother David Evans."

By: Val Nunn (nee Evans)                   Added: 22/07/2020

TIDEWAY SCHOOL (View page)

"Where could I read that?"

By: Phil Wise                                       Added: 19/07/2020

TIDEWAY SCHOOL (View page)

"Mr Kellett died in 2004. According to his obituary, he was Oxford educated. Worked for GHCQ for a while before training as a teacher in Newc..."

By: Nicky Easton                                 Added: 18/07/2020

SEACAT IN NEWHAVEN 1992 (View page)

"So it’s time for my moan up about the Newhaven-Dieppe crossing. ???? As a foot??passenger, I really miss travelling to/from the conti..."

By: Gary Sparrow                               Added: 13/07/2020

SEACAT IN NEWHAVEN 1992 (View page)

"The conventional service was here a long time before the short-lived fast ferry services arrived, of course, and it has survived a long time..."

By: Andy Gilbert                                 Added: 13/07/2020

SEACAT IN NEWHAVEN 1992 (View page)

"I was very sorry when I heard the Newhaven-Dieppe hoverspeed cancelled. Over the years we had lovely day trips to the pretty town of Dieppe...."

By: Gary Sparrow                               Added: 12/07/2020

SCOFFERS / JOHN KENNEDY BOOKMAKERS (View page)

"What was this shop selling in the sixties? I seem to remember going in there when I worked at Bannisters Builders  just up the High st ..."

By: Terry Howard                                Added: 11/07/2020

SCOFFERS / JOHN KENNEDY BOOKMAKERS (View page)

"From 1989 to 1991 I was working for Gibbons Freight, in one of the freight agents' Portakabins next to the station. As well as a salary,..."

By: Andy Gilbert                                  Added: 09/07/2020

SCOFFERS / JOHN KENNEDY BOOKMAKERS (View page)

"My first memory of this shop was going there to buy dog biscuits around 1960. Spratt's Mixed Ovals. A little later I'd go there for ..."

By: Ron Herriott                                   Added: 09/07/2020

A QUIET RETREAT. (View page)

"Amazing to find this page...I spent a family holiday here in July 1956 which was cut short by very strong gales and storm which blew over ou..."

By: Geoff Ellis                                       Added: 08/07/2020

SCOFFERS / JOHN KENNEDY BOOKMAKERS (View page)

"I worked at Main Systems and used to call into Scoffers to buy our MD's lunchtime sandwiches.  Also, John Kennedy was my brother-in..."

By: Carol Walton                                  Added: 08/07/2020

BRIDGE STREET (View page)

"Is was funny to read about the Coop number - still remember my mums from the early 50s = 15642 :-)"

By: Bill Simmons                                  Added: 05/07/2020

NEWHAVEN TOWN STATION SIGNALBOX - R.I.P (View page)

"What a great shame, yet another bit of Newhaven's history gone."

By: Donald Waller                                Added: 04/07/2020

BRIDGE STREET (View page)

"The middle picture - 1980s - can be dated to 1978-1983; the Co-op was modernised with the grey facia and blue sign in 1978 and closed in 198..."

By: Mike Hedgethorne                         Added: 04/07/2020

SCOFFERS / JOHN KENNEDY BOOKMAKERS (View page)

"I was the Manager of the Co-op during 1978 and loved the Scoffers hot pies - my mid-morning treat!"

By: Mike Hedgethorne                         Added: 04/07/2020