Hi Nice site, I am an ex Worthing boy. It was interesting to see you do a lot of fund raising. I joined the Navy at 15¼ in 1950, pensioning off in 1975. I used to attend the Worthing Technical School, opposite the Worthing Police Station...Happy days..I currently live in Somerset
As the son (and nephew) of many Walls from Worthing RN veterans who is writing his family history it is great to find your site. As I now live in Australia, I might need you advice and help. My father and all my uncles have now died but I managed to capture some of their stories.
I would love to hear from any ex RN members who remember the Walls boys from Worthing.
Cheers
Terry Walls
Australia
Email; Terry Walls [terry.walls@solutionsfocussed.com.au]
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July 31st 2004
As one born and brought up in Worthing and now aged 81, I have great memories of the area. I have one wish still unfulfilled. Does anyone have a photo of the Boys' High School on Broadwater Road as it was in the 1930's ? I have a small collection of Worthing photos as it was, but nothing on the School, which I suppose has long been torn down. My father was manager of the Midland Bank on Warwick Street for many years. My sister was a Wren. My sister-in-law still lives in West Worthing.
The Boy' High School was opposite the County Cricket Grounds on the west side. But maybe the cricket grounds are no longer there. (The cricket grounds were south of Broadwater Manor School where I also went in the 30's.) It was built of wood as a temporary building in the 1920's but certainly survived WW2. I think I had a very good education there. During the war there was a machine gun post in the middle of the playing fiels. The boys were strictly instructed not to talk to the gunner, because it might distract him from shooting down German planes. There never were any, and we used to feel sorry for him standing out there for hours in the rain. In 1938 we all went down to Beach House and assembled gas masks when it was thought that war would come. In 1940 we were bussed up to Findon Valley to dig trenches to trap invading German troop gliders. I was born in 1923 in one of the 3 houses just south of the cricket grounds
Many Thanks,
Peter Trounce,
Toronto
Email; Peter Trounce [juniper26@sympatico.ca]
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August 19th 2004
Hello Shipmate,
I am not a hundred percent sure, but I believe Douglas Stonham was one of your Associate members about 15 years back. He moved to Penzance after losing his wife and was a member of the Branch. He then married again and emigrated to Vancouver.
I am sorry to say that Doulas crossed the bar recently. It was very sudden, he was on the beach at the time. Douglas was a real gentleman.
