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Originally Posted by landhusweg
Hi Paul,
Thanks for giving your Dad my regards. Not surprised that he didn't remember me, after all I was only one of thousands of children that he must have had contact with, and he was only one person that I knew.
As regards to school camps, yes I went to two of them:
Staithes on the Yorkshire coast, and
Kessingland I think it was on the east Anglian coast, but not sure.
Cheers
Philip
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Hi Philip
I was at Kessingland. Romney Hythe to Dymchurch miniature railway ran past the camp. I can hear the whistle now. I was into trainspotting then - I must have been 7 or 8 so around 1954-5? I loved hanging over the Queens Road bridge and the one on Highams playing field near the cricket ground.
Trains were something in those days; even the "mile long" coal- pulling work horses, belching out dirty smoke and grey tinted steam, but more excitingly the dark green and polished brass of fast, named passenger engines. One regular was "Vernon" - I believe it was one of several Admirals. Didn't they look great on the viaduct?
I imagine you found Switzerland different in many ways.
All the best
Paul