Page 21 - John's Story Vol 1

John Allen Hello Heather , Thank you for letting me know you enjoyed reading about
my childhood . I had a.very enjoyable childhood . But if you can recall from my
memories , i
Like · Reply · January 23 at 4:19pm

John Allen Sorry Heather hit the wrong button . I did have a upset in my life. Next
weekend I would like to write another short part about my childhood .
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Heather Gibbs Look forward to it.
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Liz Purcell there were a couple of us who used to "comb" the beach at Perranporth to
pick up the Corona bottles for their deposit too and also because the men used to sit
on the beach and change inevitably fell out of their pocket into the sand, we used to
dig aro...See More
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John Allen Hello Liz your life as a child seems to be very much like mine . Enjoying
our time on the beach ,picking up corona bottles for the money . Also found the odd
few coins . As a child it was the only money I would have . As like most families of
our time ...See More
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Jackie Williams George I remember diving in the harbour looking for pennies the
holiday makers threw in just to see us crowd of kids dive in then we went up joes fish
shop and had 3pence worth of chips .
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Rosemary Craven John, my brother reminded me today about when he and some
other boys made a raft. The got hold of four oil drums and some planks of wood.
They tied it all together with wool which Mark took from our sisters knitting bag,
floated it in the harbour and got on board. Half way across the harbour the wool
disintegrated, the raft broke up and they had to swim. One of the boys was Tony
Giles, were you with them?