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Posted by Pat Sear on 20 August 2006 at 09:57

Sorry about the double message - the old arthritic fingers must have slipped. (No, you won't believe that but worth a try - just incompetent)
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Posted by Pat Sear on 20 August 2006 at 09:54

I've just been told about this site by old schoolfriend Margaret Miller who's dad used to be in the baker's shop. It's been great reading all the reminiscences and seeing old familiar names such as Ian Field and Hazel Hambidge. Hazel, you asked about Peter and I. We're well and happy on the other side of the world. Peter in N.Z. and me in Oz. Peter's just as adventurous as a lot of you will remember. He's over here in Queensland at the moment doing up a yacht he's bought and hopes to sail up to the Kimberleys. Bit different from sailing a raft around the brickfield at the back of our grandparents farm eh. Do others also remember the gypsies who camped up near Richborough Castle every year. We used to sit at their campsite. (Pete and me) Also learning to swim in the deep stream between our back meadow and the golf club land. Cowboys and Indians down in the meadow below the mill wall (Bay Road end), Sliding down the Mill wall when snowy (was it tea chest tops or cardboard boxes), swinging on ropes from the conker trees. Old time dancing in St Peter's Hall where we learnt to get on with people of all ages. Whist Drives (Mrs Reason was a whizz at that) and weren't Beatle Drives Fun. The Coronation Parties in the streets. Christmas parties with jelly and blancmange ....... could go on and on (and probably already have)

Redcliffe, Queensland Australia

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Posted by Gill hardy on 15 August 2006 at 22:06

I have only lived in Sandwich 7 months and have just opened my beauty business here. I am a "Yorkshire lass" and am 300 miles from home. Last week a new client booked in for a treatment and after a few minutes of us both establishing that we are both from Yorkshire it also turned out that we were also were in the same class at school from being 11. Her husband was in our year at the same school and so was my husband at the same school. We only live 5mins apart in Sandwich. What are the chances of that happening? I suppose it would be beyond imagination to expect anyone else living in Sandwich to have attended Hornsea School East Yorkshire between 1965-1971?

Sandwich England

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Posted by Bryan Hoare on 06 August 2006 at 17:48

I was on a weekend of touring the RAF Museums around the Kent coast, purley a last minuete thing. Started at The Battle of Britain Memorial at Capel le Ferne then on to Hawkinge and stopping of in Sandwich (the town of my School days) to look up a few old friends. One in particular was Mike Law as it was his birthday. To which I must add a big thank you, because as I knocked there door, Mike and Sue where on there way out for a meal, to which they invited me to join them. We dined at the Kings Arms in Sandwich and it was a fantasic meal and evening. After staying the night with Mike and Sue I spent the next morning looking over the town of my youth and not much has changed really, except the Trap Cafe is no longer, now a hairdresser's! Then it was on to Manston for the afternoon and home to Horsham. All in all a very satisfactory weekend.

Horsham UK

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Posted by Nick Warren on 06 June 2006 at 18:44

Hello, My great grandmother was named Magdalane Bailey and left Sandwich for Barnsley to marry Francis Berrecloth after the first world war. She died when I was nine in 1978. She often talked about her early life and family and I was hoping someone might know of any family members still in the area. Thanks
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Posted by JOHN GRIFFITHS on 15 May 2006 at 09:47

LOOKING FOR ANYBODY WHO KNEW JACK GRIFFITHS, RESIDENT OF SANDWICH IN THE 60sAND 70s.IF MY MEMORY IS WORTH ANYTHING HE LIVED IN A 2 STOREY SEMI BACKING ONTO A LARGE POND, WITH AVIEW OF A GOLF COURSE IN THE DISTANCE (CLUBHOUSE).JACK MY UNCLE , THE OLDEST OF 12 KIDS WAS LEFT BEHIND IN ENGLAND, WHEN THE FAMILY MIGRATED TO AUSTRALIA. HE NEVER MET HIS BROTHER MY FATHER,AND THE LAST TIME HE SAW HIS BROTHER BILL WAS IN 1918, WALKING WOUNDED PASSED EACH OTHER AT SOUTHHAMPTON.ONE IN THE BRITISH ARMY, ONE IN THE AUSTRALIAN ARMY. THEY SAID A QUICK HELLO,AND NEVER SAW EACH OTHER AGAIN IN THEIR LIFETIME.BOTH DIED IN THE LATE 70S -80S.

PERTH AUSTRALIA

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Posted by Janet on 27 April 2006 at 00:18

I lived in the R.A.F.married quarters at stonar Sandwich from 1969-1976,name then was (Nickols)be nice to hear from anyone who was there too.
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Posted by Open Sandwich on 02 April 2006 at 10:06

In answer to Clive Phelan's message about the mushroom farm.
The information below was given to John Keighley (partner, Birnam Farm Business Centre) by Mrs. Jean Miller, widow of Douglas Miller
Robert (never Bob) Stanford-Tuck lived at The Lynch, Brook Hill, Eastry.
He had a very small Mushroom farm in stables behind his house. In 1955, he went into partnership with Douglas Miller and built a new mushroom farm called Birnam Mushrooms on the old, and recently disbanded Woodnesborough Halt railway station. It was called Birnam, because Douglas also had a fruit farm called Dunsanane.
The farm opened in 1957 with Joyce Stanford-Tuck acting as Secretary. In 1960, Jean and Douglas were married and shortly after that the Stanford-Tucks decided to let Jean take over and the partnership was dissolved.

The Stanford-Tucks still carried on growing mushrooms at their home for a few years. Eventually they sold up and went to live in Sandwich Bay. We believe Robert then devoted a lot of his time to the Hendon Air Museum, and they may have more information.
Birnam Mushrooms closed in April 2000, a victim of market pressures and loss of a Supermarket Contract. The vacant buildings are now let out as storage space and workshops. The large barn on the site is now home to the East Kent Heritage Vintage Buses.

Sandwich, Kent UK

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