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Forum: General topics 09-03-2013, 09:34 AM
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Posted By Alan J.
National Archives.

Couquet, will we see some of your discoveries?, they are very interesting you have whetted my appetite.
Forum: General topics 08-02-2013, 11:59 AM
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Posted By Alan J.
Scottish connection with Amble.

As you say there was a large Scottish contingent in the area and there are still Amble people whose fathers came here, courted , married and settled after the war and who have only within the last...
Forum: General topics 08-02-2013, 11:51 AM
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Posted By Alan J.
Cafe on the links.

The building Brownknees mentions was "Ned Fenwicks Cafe" and was what had been the old Amble golf course clubhouse, seen on the links opposite Panhaven road in the Amble picture gallery on...
Forum: General topics 06-02-2013, 07:11 PM
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Posted By Alan J.
Lord Mayors Camp.

There was at least one Green wooden building on the site until fairly recent years. This was, I think, used by the council as storage etc., for the caravan site maintenance men and as far as I can...
Forum: General topics 06-02-2013, 12:08 PM
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Posted By Alan J.
Lord Mayors Camp.

I don't think they had general access to the town but obviously there was contact as they were making pocket money with the toys etc. You have to remember they were in a pretty isolated place, the...
Forum: General topics 05-02-2013, 07:20 PM
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Posted By Alan J.
Lord Mayors Field.

Contrary to popular belief it wasn't a POW camp but they were actually displaced persons, mainly Russian or Eastern Europeans who went back within a fairly short time after the war. They were noted...
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