The 'castle'

I do indeed, another wrinkle in my brow ... they appear in a number of pictures, including in the ones after the storm; I think there were three different ones (one was a mortar, I think) ... I (actually I had better tone this down from what I was going to say) have many a time wondered just what happened to them, after all, not exactly something that gets swept down a drain, what?

I can well remember the World War II gun emplacement there. Rolls of barbed wire stretched the total length of footpath above the beach and steel girders were positioned in the sand/rocks pointing out towards any possible invasion from the sea.

I don t suppose there were many photos of this taken for security reasons sad#

new wealth of meaning for picture shoot

another Bofors was there by the Pavilion where the lions stand, heavier guns were situated on each side of the Jubilee pool

treeve...Albert Pascoe the name rings a bell,did his mother live at Redinnick Terrace by any chance ??

He never spoke much about his family, save for his sister and brothers; they all had (if I add that I am not being rude in this) a feeling of old world about them, a sense that everything was important and had value, respect and admiration for the Nation and for neighbours. Yet he had the fire of the devil when angered by some local politician. With that and my father, I did not stand an awful chance to be anything otherwise.

the dear soul I knew in Redinnick her husband was an Omar Pascoe I believe he was the borough diver and often worked on the dock gates

My uncle Albert Pascoe was a painter and decorator in the best sense of the word. He could produce on the wall, what later was made by Shand Kydd as wallcoverings. He was a genius with paint and staining; created any wood design from stain and scumble. Flowers, patterns, scrolls, all with paint. Only very close inspection revealed that it was not of plaster or flock wallpaper. He mixed all his paints from scratch, no ready made paint for him. Later when he retired, he worked on clocks, repair and build, as well as wood carving, brass work and gold leaf .... I still have his brass working tools and his stain combs amongst other things. I am trying to transcribe his writings on mixing paints and so on....