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  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 8,695 Scope Online Community Coordinator
    Ah I remember going samphire picking!  Mum always used to warn us not to eat too much of it though. 

    Remember snap bracelets?  
  • Steve_in_The_City
    Steve_in_The_City Scope Member Posts: 754 Trailblazing
    When I moved from London to Norfolk probably in the late 1960's I didn't fare too well because rural living kind of mystifys me! My first day in Norfolk was an absolute nightmare, and then it went downhill all the way from there! I just can't cope with fields and wild animals like cows! One day when I was 17 I woke up in a field in Lancashire after being somewhere where I shouldn't have been and there were a bevvy of cows all looking down at me! Obviously I escaped and they didn't eat me! But in Norfolk I had pigs to contend with, as well. Anyway, to get back on the thread...

    One place I really liked in Norfolk was a village (hamlet?) called Wolferton. It was by the late Queen's estate at Sandringham. I would cycle along a road that was laced either side with strawberry fields and there were pheasants galore. At the end of the road was a wheat field with a public footpath, and this is where the san-fer man would leave his horse and cart. At the other side of the wheat field there was a little river, probably a tributary  to the Great River Ouse that I loved to swim in, and it opened out on to The Wash. It was very marshy and it was here in peacefulness and seclusion that the sam-fer man collected the Samphire. I did not know you could pick it yourself. I got to know him a tiny little bit. He would then go around South (Kings) Lynn which in those days was an impoverished neighbourhood on his horse and cart yelling "San-Fer" and we would go out and buy it by the bucket. Now it is quite expensive and a luxury,
  • Bettahm
    Bettahm Online Community Member Posts: 1,441 Championing
    Steve_in_The_City said:
    When I moved from London to Norfolk probably in the late 1960's I didn't fare too well because rural living kind of mystifys me! My first day in Norfolk was an absolute nightmare, and then it went downhill all the way from there! I just can't cope with fields and wild animals like cows! One day when I was 17 I woke up in a field in Lancashire after being somewhere where I shouldn't have been and there were a bevvy of cows all looking down at me! Obviously I escaped and they didn't eat me! But in Norfolk I had pigs to contend with, as well. Anyway, to get back on the thread...

    One place I really liked in Norfolk was a village (hamlet?) called Wolferton. It was by the late Queen's estate at Sandringham. I would cycle along a road that was laced either side with strawberry fields and there were pheasants galore. At the end of the road was a wheat field with a public footpath, and this is where the san-fer man would leave his horse and cart. At the other side of the wheat field there was a little river, probably a tributary  to the Great River Ouse that I loved to swim in, and it opened out on to The Wash. It was very marshy and it was here in peacefulness and seclusion that the sam-fer man collected the Samphire. I did not know you could pick it yourself. I got to know him a tiny little bit. He would then go around South (Kings) Lynn which in those days was an impoverished neighbourhood on his horse and cart yelling "San-Fer" and we would go out and buy it by the bucket. Now it is quite expensive and a luxury,
    Wolferton is still a lovely little village. Think having a church makes it a village. Wood Farm is behind the church I believe, where Prince Philip retired to. But the whole Norfolk coast from there round to Cromer and the countryside inland in that area is beautiful. Think the North Norfolk coast is classed as an area of outstanding natural beauty. 
  • Steve_in_The_City
    Steve_in_The_City Scope Member Posts: 754 Trailblazing
    @Bettahm Hi! I think that part of the world is wondrous. The coastline is amazing and diverse.
  • Bettahm
    Bettahm Online Community Member Posts: 1,441 Championing
    @Steve_in_The_City I'm originally from London, the suburbs NW. 
  • Steve_in_The_City
    Steve_in_The_City Scope Member Posts: 754 Trailblazing
    @Bettahm I hope you are able to visit the North Norfolk coastline. I am afraid that visiting that part of the world is now beyond my mobility problems. When I was a lad (in the days of mostly monochrome tv) I was a competitive swimmer. I loved swimming in the sea and rivers. The North Norfolk coastline and inland is just about the most perfect place to lose yourself and explore. I used to go swimming on deserted beaches, and my favourite thing (other than being in the sea) was jumping off a bridge in to The Great River Ouse at a village called St. Germaine just outside of Kings Lynn.

    NW London has some very nice neighbourhoods. Quite expensive, in fact, but you meet nice people. I was born very lowly in Wandsworth, twixt Battersea and Clapham! But is doesn't matter how you arrive, it is what you do with your life and where you go and the slight difference that you make, that is what counts.
  • Bettahm
    Bettahm Online Community Member Posts: 1,441 Championing
    Steve_in_The_City said:
    @Bettahm I hope you are able to visit the North Norfolk coastline. I am afraid that visiting that part of the world is now beyond my mobility problems. When I was a lad (in the days of mostly monochrome tv) I was a competitive swimmer. I loved swimming in the sea and rivers. The North Norfolk coastline and inland is just about the most perfect place to lose yourself and explore. I used to go swimming on deserted beaches, and my favourite thing (other than being in the sea) was jumping off a bridge in to The Great River Ouse at a village called St. Germaine just outside of Kings Lynn.

    NW London has some very nice neighbourhoods. Quite expensive, in fact, but you meet nice people. I was born very lowly in Wandsworth, twixt Battersea and Clapham! But is doesn't matter how you arrive, it is what you do with your life and where you go and the slight difference that you make, that is what counts.
    I cant visit our beautiful north Norfolk coast now because of agoraphobia, but one day I hope to again. Yes, beautiful beaches. Holme next the Sea and adjoining Old Hunstanton are favourites though I'm no swimmer!
    Had a caravan at Hunstanton in the 90s. Love the area. Brancaster Staithe, Burnham Market, more. All lovely. Am Blessed to live on the doorstep now. Except agoraphobia keeps me away for now......
    I was born in Kingsbury at the Colindale end. Near the Edgeware Road. 
    Bet I'd hardly recognize it now.....
    Good old days, the 60s.
  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 962 Trailblazing
    sorting through the spuds delivered on the farm dad worked on to feed the cows finding the ones without the blue dye on to take home for mum to feed us all and walking around the farm with a pocket full of sugar beet pulp to munch on  the good old days 
  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 962 Trailblazing
    michael57 said:
    sorting through the spuds delivered on the farm dad worked on to feed the cows finding the ones without the blue dye on to take home for mum to feed us all and walking around the farm with a pocket full of sugar beet pulp to munch on  the good old days 
    or when i was 10 i had flat feet had a job to walk in the summer off to hospital inch of shin bone removed from each leg and grafted onto the ankles both legs up to the knees and feet in plaster for 4 months big wooden rockers on the bottom so i could walk wire stitches back then they were the days 

  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 8,695 Scope Online Community Coordinator
    Blimey, that's quite the epic surgery @michael57 all they did for mine were give me some inner soles for my shoes.  :D
  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 962 Trailblazing
    Albus_Scope said:
    Blimey, that's quite the epic surgery @michael57 all they did for mine were give me some inner soles for my shoes.  :D
    ah there was 6 of us all in for the same operations on the same day i am talking like almost 60 years ago your still a youngster and we had to do school lessons while in there hospital had there own teacher i have fond memories of my youth shame i cant remember what i did yesterday due to the strokes
  • Bettahm
    Bettahm Online Community Member Posts: 1,441 Championing
    Coco the clown visiting schools in the 60s giving his road safety talk to us kids.
  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 8,695 Scope Online Community Coordinator
    We had the Green Cross Code man visiting us.  That was always exciting. :) 
  • Bettahm
    Bettahm Online Community Member Posts: 1,441 Championing
    Ten bob notes  
  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,866 Championing
    Every time I see this thread... I start singing September by Earth, Wind and Fire :D
  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 8,695 Scope Online Community Coordinator
    It makes me think of South Park, with the rememberberries.   "'memberrrr?"
  • Steve_in_The_City
    Steve_in_The_City Scope Member Posts: 754 Trailblazing
    @Bettahm I am very sorry about your agoraphobia and I hope and trust that one day you will overcome this. It is possible, so never lose hope.

    You have brought back some very nice memories for me. I had long forgotten about Holme Next The Sea and other places you mentioned. I spent a lot of time at Holme; the beach was always deserted and a great place for me to swim from. Also, I was thinking about Hunstanton (H'unston as the locals called it, and Sunny Hunny). If my memory serves me right (and I am sorry to say that is debatable) but I am sure there was an aquarium there where I could go and stroke the fish. I might well be wrong. But anyway, thanks... I have some good memories running through my mind,
  • Steve_in_The_City
    Steve_in_The_City Scope Member Posts: 754 Trailblazing
    I wonder if anyone can remember the happy days before childproof lids where you could open a bottle of bleach without a 20 minute struggle?
  • Bettahm
    Bettahm Online Community Member Posts: 1,441 Championing
    Steve_in_The_City said:
    @Bettahm I am very sorry about your agoraphobia and I hope and trust that one day you will overcome this. It is possible, so never lose hope.

    You have brought back some very nice memories for me. I had long forgotten about Holme Next The Sea and other places you mentioned. I spent a lot of time at Holme; the beach was always deserted and a great place for me to swim from. Also, I was thinking about Hunstanton (H'unston as the locals called it, and Sunny Hunny). If my memory serves me right (and I am sorry to say that is debatable) but I am sure there was an aquarium there where I could go and stroke the fish. I might well be wrong. But anyway, thanks... I have some good memories running through my mind,
    Oh! Never heard mention of an aquarium at Hunstanton. But highly likely I guess.
    Love the place, been going there since 1997 when I still lived in Kingsbury, had a caravan right on the sea front with my dad, aunt and dogs. Saw your post about Brighton and my dream is to get back up to Hunstanton, now much closer, get my fish and chips at Fishers, and eat them on the green overlooking the sea. A goal to start fighting for my mental health back.
    Holme next the Sea and Old Hunstanton are beautiful beaches, great for my dogs. Those crumbling red and white cliffs at Hunstanton, and the old shipwreck, remains still there, on the beach at low tide below them.
    Going out cockling at low tide. I didnt like them but my dad and aunt did. Buying fresh mussels at Brancaster Staithe. 
    Good old days. Remember Brighton too, a regular day trip down from London. Not been since late 80s.
    Btw, remember the train station at Wolferton? Where the Queen and family arrived at for their stay at Sandringham. The stations now a museum, not sure when it closed, guessing the 60s.
  • Bettahm
    Bettahm Online Community Member Posts: 1,441 Championing
    Steve_in_The_City said:
    I wonder if anyone can remember the happy days before childproof lids where you could open a bottle of bleach without a 20 minute struggle?
    Lol! I once took a fret saw to a bottle of bleach out of frustration. Not recommended. 
    I struggle with various lids now.
    With you 100!

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