I LIVE in Lymington now before moving from Parkstone when I got married - Westbourne brings back lots of memories.
I started work as a junior typist in 1960 at Auto Service Garage in Robert Louis Stevenson Avenue.
A gallon of BP super plus was I recall 5/6p gallon.
The office was very Dickensian in character.
Mr Watson - accountant had a tall desk - used to look over the desk at us - felt quite nervous at age 15.
The secretary at the time could have just walked out of a Dickens novel.
She was thin and tall with black rimmed glasses. Scary!
I used to love the second-hand bookshops top of the arcade.
Many a lunch hour was spent browsing through them.
Whilst still at school - loved reading and enjoyed visiting arcade to buy second-hand weekly Schoolgirls Own Library.
Yes unfortunately don’t get to Westbourne so much now living in Lymington - but when I do love a fish/chip meal in Chez Fred.
Next door to where the fish and chip shop is now used to be a radio shop - I bought my 1st Dansette Portable Radio in there - religiously paying for it out of my meagre wage packet every month !!
Happy days!
Ann Phillips
Middle Road,
Lymington
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