00. Pauline and I having a meal at a top restaurant

01. Our hotel,The Red Lion

02. Our room

03. Bedroom leading to En suite bathroom

04. Reading room

05. Red Lion, A quiet room

06. Dining Room, The meals were of the Table d'hôte

07. Dining Room ceiling, Red Lion

08. Red Lion Parliament Bar and lounge

09. The lounge

10. Dining area

11. Looking down from the hotel passage

12. Reading room

13. lovely clock in the lounge -- Arghh

14. Meeanee Bks

15. Meeanee Bks

16. Meeanee Bks

17. Meeanee Bks

18. Hyderabad Bks

19. Hyderabad Bks

20. New camp across road

21. The Town Hall

22. The Town Hall

23. The old Post Office, top of North hill

24. From the High Street facing the Castle grounds

25. Cenotaph in front of castle erected in the 1920's

26. Colchester Castle. Eric Gilbert sent me a link to some very old postcards of the castle before renovation (I cannot put on here due to copyright of the owners).

27. The castle

28. Lovely flower arrangement

29. Castle grounds Band Stand

30. A very peaceful KOI Pond in the Castle grounds

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32. Childrens play area, castle grounds

33. Play area in castle grounds

34. The castle

35. Looking down from the castle onto lower quarry

36. The lovely floral display in the Castle grounds

37. Castle grounds walkway

38. Heading down to the boating pool

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40. Castle Keepers home

41. Looking down towards the boating pool

42. Castle boating lake

43. Castle grounds

44. Castle grounds

45. Castle gardens

46. Castle grounds

47. Castle grounds

48. Floral arrangement castle gardens

49. Holly Tree House, castle grounds

50. Street scene

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53. Scheregate

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55. High Street, Town Hall to right

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57. High street

58. Town Hall

59. High Street

60. North Hill

61. The George Hotel, had a lovely evening meal there

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63. Oakapple Close - our old Married Quarters

64. My old home, 49 Oakapple close

65. My old home - view from the front

66. My old home, looking into the hall

67. My old home - view of the kitchen

68. Delapidated gardens on Oakapple

69. Pete Bates' old home, 50 Oakapple close

70. Front of No 50 Petes house

71. Pete Bates old home boarded up

72. No 41 John & Pauline Cox's old house

73. A look along Oakapple from my old house, All empty

74. Some 2 LI who lived along this row, No 50 Pete and Betty Bate, No 49 Les and Anoi Parkin, No 48 Joe Kenworthy and family, No 39 Dennis and Phylis Lamb, No 41 John and Pauline Cox, No 42 Lou and Dawn Stocks, No 43 John and Denise Wragg

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76. Across the field from my old home, the Junior School

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78. It says it all

79. This is a shot of Oakapple to the right - On the left hand side near the Post Box was the call box where we would call our wives from belfast in 69

80. Oakapple from the main road

81. Hornbeam

82. The side that is occupied

83. Montgomery School (on Army estate)

84. Montgomery School

85. The Occupied quarters on the estate

86. New NAAFI

87. Looking across the road from the bus shelter to the occupied homes

88. New property just outside St Michaels Estate, on the main road

89. New homes for sale just as we left the Army quarters

90. Lovely homes now stand on the main road

91. New houses edge of army estate

92. Pauline visiting her daughter Zena's grave, who died in December 1970

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97. The Chapel within the cemetary where the service was held

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