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For the first 18 years of my life (1946 onwards) my family always took their holidays in Great Yarmouth, wrote David Fowler.
The thing which still stays with me is the ice cream seller walking along the beach, usually no sun, but it was the purest white and tasted better than any other I've since had. I think the man was Italian.
We always stayed at the Four Oaks guest house which was down the side of a big hotel. It was opposite the last pier towards the harbour, and a favourite evening pub was the Shadingfields, one or two streets away.
The proprietors of the guest house were George & Ivy Hopton. They were both big horse-racing fans and often went to Newmarket and, of course, Yarmouth races.
We went with my father's mother & father and I remember my father telling me that his father always insisted on a walk before breakfast along the prom to have a coffee or tea.
While at the cafe, my grandfather spiked the drinks with a slug of dark rum. You must think we were all alcoholics!
We all lived at Erdington, Birmingham in a row of old terraced houses where various aunts & uncles as well as both sets of grandparents lived at various times.
I was an only child and went to Ryland Road Primary School and later to Bordesley Green Technical School up to 'A' levels.
David Fowler, Oxfordshire, 2001
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