Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
I see on reading The Daily Mail.the best year was 1957. I remember it well .The article states neighbours would chat over the fence families pulled together and a job was for life and easy to come by.
Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,818
Sounds like life on our estate
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
If my memory serves me correct Diptheria, Polio and Tuberculosis were prevalent, outside lavatories, tin baths in the back yard, draughty houses with freezing cold bedrooms and of course nobody took their dog for a walk so they used to go out on their own dump everywhere especially where us kids used to play.
Halcyon days.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Yes we had a tin bath and an outside toilet ,don't recall those health problems thought that was more the forties.The main point is neighbours were there and a Relatives lived near.Elderly relatives were looked after even if it meant giving up your bed and Gran took the best armchair. we sat crowded in a tiny room and people talked to each other ..
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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They were gradually being eradicated Sue but I remember standing in a cold playground with hundred or more with our sleeves rolled up having an injection for them all at various times and a sadistic nurse took great pleasure in ramming the needle in as hard as possible and any kid that cried got shouted at by her.
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,888
I often wonder how our brains seem to prioritise the good things from the past and not the bad.
BTW I had Polio resulting in a paralysed arm resulting in months off school which was much appreciated at the time, down side I had to catch up with extra work school work later.
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Bob Whysman
- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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All you youngsters with your tales of woe from school. A thought for your elders who remember 1957 for different reasons wouldn't go amiss.
Don't get me started looking back Sue as you may have opened a can of nostalgic worms which may be difficult to put the lid back on!
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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I used to have an awful crush on Anthony Newley, now I wonder why. I guess nearly all ex-teenagers have doubts about some of their youthful choices as they get older.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
I do remember those songs and I was 18 in 1957
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Bob Whysman- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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Sue Nicholas wrote:I do remember those songs and I was 18 in 1957
Snap! Do you remember the weekend dances at the Majestic Hotel and the Leas Cliff Hall in Folkestone Sue? Coffee shops along with their juke boxes were favoured meeting places too with the one in Sandgate Road next door to the M&S store being a favourite for many.
The Dover Stage was quite a lively venue......mostly for the wrong reasons I must hastily add!!
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Fraid not Bob.I was not that girl with an hour glass. figure and dark wavy hair. I was in Essex dancing with some hunk from the local RAF camp .I did have dark wavy hair.
I only came to Dover in 1971 .
PatrickS
- Location: Marine Parade, Dover
- Registered: 19 Sep 2015
- Posts: 448
Bob Whysman- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 1,938
Can anyone 'plaice' this person? Taken on the West Pier Brighton 1957!
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
That could be me Bob little gloves ,style of coat and hair style .Nor me though.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
Iwas born in 1957 so must have ben a good year lol
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Totally agree Keith.The blame lies at the door of central government.Strapped for cash what can councils do.There will be savings but look at the amount of money to be paid to senior officers who will be made redundant.I well recall when DDC had a reduction in senior staff years ago ,!
A Councillor needs to be known not a remote figure who just goes to meetings .I think Dover will loose its identity .
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Oh dear posted under wrong heading Hope it can be moved .
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