Day Two - Nostalgia
Thursday, 2nd August 2018
Good weather again today and, after putting the awning up, decided to visit Winterton where Wendy lived for part of her childhood years. I too got to know the place a little as we visited Aunty Doris a few times in the 1970's.
Needless to say the place was much changed but we did find a few locations from the past. The first was The Hall, a large mansion of a place where we used to visit Aunty Lotte. The house was expensively furnished and we both remember how frightened we were of the children breaking something.
Sadly but no surprise, The Hall is now divided up into three dwellings.
Not far from The Hall was the local cemetery where we quickly found the graves and headstones of Aunts and Uncles.
First discovered was the grave of Aunt Lotte and Aunt Alice who lived on Earlsgate, just down from Auntie Doris.
They lived together and we visited them when staying with Auntie Doris.
Next, and quite easily found, was the grave of Aunty Doris and her husband Eric. I never met Uncle Eric as he had died many years earlier but, along with the children, I played with many of his mechanical creations in the garage which was just an Aladin's Cave.
Whilst touring around Winterton we saw a sign saying "To the River" so we took it, thinking it referred to the Humber. In fact it took us to the River Ancholme, a tributary of the Humber. The road terminated at a bridge over the river. Horkstow Bridge is a suspension bridge that spans the New River Ancholme near the village of Horkstow in North Lincolnshire. It was designed by Sir John Rennie as part of the River Ancholme Drainage Scheme, completed in 1836, and is a Grade II* listed building. (detail taken from Wikipedia)
Good weather again today and, after putting the awning up, decided to visit Winterton where Wendy lived for part of her childhood years. I too got to know the place a little as we visited Aunty Doris a few times in the 1970's.
Needless to say the place was much changed but we did find a few locations from the past. The first was The Hall, a large mansion of a place where we used to visit Aunty Lotte. The house was expensively furnished and we both remember how frightened we were of the children breaking something.
Sadly but no surprise, The Hall is now divided up into three dwellings.
Not far from The Hall was the local cemetery where we quickly found the graves and headstones of Aunts and Uncles.
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First discovered was the grave of Aunt Lotte and Aunt Alice who lived on Earlsgate, just down from Auntie Doris.
They lived together and we visited them when staying with Auntie Doris.
Next, and quite easily found, was the grave of Aunty Doris and her husband Eric. I never met Uncle Eric as he had died many years earlier but, along with the children, I played with many of his mechanical creations in the garage which was just an Aladin's Cave.
Whilst touring around Winterton we saw a sign saying "To the River" so we took it, thinking it referred to the Humber. In fact it took us to the River Ancholme, a tributary of the Humber. The road terminated at a bridge over the river. Horkstow Bridge is a suspension bridge that spans the New River Ancholme near the village of Horkstow in North Lincolnshire. It was designed by Sir John Rennie as part of the River Ancholme Drainage Scheme, completed in 1836, and is a Grade II* listed building. (detail taken from Wikipedia)
Nothing like a trip down Memory Lane!
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