A long time ago , in the age of innocence , fun games and a multiple amount of activities at Queenscroft Park Eltham.
My very first memory of Queenscroft Park was thus.
Me and my brother's, Danny Holmes Shane Ginn and Craig Ginn used to leave Haimo Primary School in the early summer morning.
Our parents weren't exactly of the rich kind .
We wasn't little oiks as some might say. But the summer's at this park were a fantastic time.
I think I even kissed a girl called Rose then.
I think my brother Shane egged me on, I was just a kid.
Soon after there was skating on the rink with the old metal skates.
They never did fit as you needed help to change the size back then?
Eltham Green school was imminent for me eventually.
My brother's and my mother father and my aunt Jacqueline also had the chance to be educated there.
Mind you a lot longer before we all did.
My mother Hazel Ginn reminds me of when she was just a teenager and watching it being built .
Anyway . After the Queenscroft Park days there were times when our grandparents used to take us down to Hastings or Bexhill.
Bexhill was most fabulous as Waidough and Arthur had a hut.
The old one's by the pebbled beach. Tea and toast mostly.
A few hours being cramped in a Ford Anglia?
Imagine that with no seat belts in the late seventies.
Not heard of these days? Camber Sands became a real holiday home soon after my grandparents retired.
My nan called the caravan Waidough.
We all used it for every occasion. Karen Welch Paul Adams Terri Allen Philip Ginn Nicki Rackley.
The days of when I met Laura Hassain.
Our dogs the Yorkshire terriers Tich and Toby and nan telling me to go save the tables for bingo .
That was too long time ago . But the summer's are long in our minds.
Thankfully I still have some remembrance of it .
Location Eltham, London
© Ryan Ginn, 2016
Pictures; from the collection of Ryan Ginn and Friends of Queenscroft Park*
*The Friends of Queenscroft Park have a blog, https://queenofparks.wordpress.com/ and canbe found on facebook at Friends of Queenscroft Park,
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| Ryan |
Me and my brother's, Danny Holmes Shane Ginn and Craig Ginn used to leave Haimo Primary School in the early summer morning.
Our parents weren't exactly of the rich kind .
We wasn't little oiks as some might say. But the summer's at this park were a fantastic time.
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| Queenscroft Park |
I think my brother Shane egged me on, I was just a kid.
Soon after there was skating on the rink with the old metal skates.
They never did fit as you needed help to change the size back then?
Eltham Green school was imminent for me eventually.
My brother's and my mother father and my aunt Jacqueline also had the chance to be educated there.
Mind you a lot longer before we all did.
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| Magic days |
Anyway . After the Queenscroft Park days there were times when our grandparents used to take us down to Hastings or Bexhill.
Bexhill was most fabulous as Waidough and Arthur had a hut.
The old one's by the pebbled beach. Tea and toast mostly.
A few hours being cramped in a Ford Anglia?
Imagine that with no seat belts in the late seventies.
Not heard of these days? Camber Sands became a real holiday home soon after my grandparents retired.
My nan called the caravan Waidough.
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| "We didn't turn out too bad" |
The days of when I met Laura Hassain.
Our dogs the Yorkshire terriers Tich and Toby and nan telling me to go save the tables for bingo .
That was too long time ago . But the summer's are long in our minds.
Thankfully I still have some remembrance of it .
Location Eltham, London
© Ryan Ginn, 2016
Pictures; from the collection of Ryan Ginn and Friends of Queenscroft Park*
*The Friends of Queenscroft Park have a blog, https://queenofparks.wordpress.com/ and canbe found on facebook at Friends of Queenscroft Park,
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