NOTES ON
1957- Railway
outing to Margate
http://comp.uark.edu/~dsears/photos/Eileen57margate
The Maidstone
and District bus identifies this as a railway outing, like the one to Brighton
in 1954 (click
here) for which I wrote notes (click here). The pier (which they call the jetty),
lighthouse and lifeboat ramp identify this as Margate.
What
is surprising here is that Aunty Win and her children are on the trip. Mum and Aunty Win were very close and we
spent a lot of time with her children.
The flamboyant Carol, the quiet Sandra, the bullyish Trevor and the
affectionate Kieth. I presume dad
arranged for her to be on the trip although she was not otherwise connected
with the railway. I can imagine him
arranging it, on the basis that there were available seats and she was a single
mother with four children.
Mum had three sisters and four brothers:
Sisters
Win (her closest sister who we frequently saw and who live on Shepway Estate)
Glad (Who also lived on Shepway and we saw fairly often too)
Mearl (who lived on Shropshire and we only saw at weddings and funerals)
Brothers
Ern (her oldest and closest brother who always lived close)
Len (tall and highly opinionated)
Roy (her youngest brother who was about the same age as his nephews David and Michael; they married within a few years of each other)
Cecil (I think)