We
spent the whole of June 1949 on holiday in Bude, the first half of it with
Olive and her mother
Gladys and the
second with Dad’s friend from the RAF,
‘Pete’ Petrook; his real name was Woolf. Probably they spent a large chunk of their
de-mob money on it. We travelled by train, the overnight Cornish Riviera Express from Waterloo Station. It left at about 11pm and was divided after reaching
Exeter with different coaches going to separate coastal towns. I remember Waterloo Station and the train’s departure and reaching Vauxhall only
a mile from the terminus but nothing else until morning. Presumably I fell asleep.The tiny photographs have survived in their original albums and are presented here in the same sequence as they appear in those albums. The first set is predominantly with Gladys and Olive and the second with the Petrook family, ‘Pete’, Ena and Carole, from Ruislip. Carole was born in Watford just a month after Malcolm. Her mother Ena died in 1999 just a few days before her 80th birthday.
More photographs from the same holiday.
Note by Malcolm Knight
