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Recollections
Newhaven
1930s
and
1940s
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Thank you to Stuart McCann, Swifts Creek, Australia, formerly for the following recollections: |
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Old Chain Pier
"I
have lots of happy memories of growing up in Edinburgh.
I lived in Trinity
Crescent, opposite the 'Old Chain Pier Bar', run in those days, by a very
feisty lady by the name of Bett Moss.
A penny a bottle was the going
rate, for returning empty screwtop beer bottles" |
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School and Harbour
"Newhaven
School was where I was introduced to the three "R"s, and the slipway at
the Harbour was where I learned to pick up any herring as they fell out of
the baskets, while the yawls were being unloaded.
Many's the time I went home after
school with ten herring (one on each finger) and my Mum was glad to get
them those days before the War" |
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Stuart McCann, Swifts Creek, Victoria,
Australia - May 2005 |
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