Plympton, Ridgeway c.1950

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I was resident in Plymouth up until 1963 when I moved to Exeter. However, between 1959 and 1963 I was a Red Cross volunteer at the Plympton Ambulance Station and did duties at weekends. The old Devon County Ambulance service was provided by St John Ambulance and British Red Cross and the latter ran the Plympton station. The original station was in the stables of a large house next to where a modern station ...see more

I lived in Hele Gardens Plympton St Maurice in the 1950.s and attended Plympton Grammar School as did my wife. Does any one remember the name of the vicar of Plympton St,Maurice at that time? I think he had a close relation serving in the RAF. I am now 82 and memory not so good although I do remember happy times at school in the Combined Cadet Force and visits to several air stations during ...see more

When I was at junior school (I was born in 1946) my maternal Granddad lived in Morley Cottages in Colebrook and worked in the signal box at Plympton Station. I lived in Molesworth Rd, down the road from Plympton Grammar School and often used to walk home from Geasons Lane Primary School via the signal box just to see my Granddad. Probably against the rules, he used to let me move the levers sometimes and I ...see more

My family moved from Battisborough Cross, Holbeton in 1938, I was 9 years old. I think my dad bought 6 Clifton Estate, Colebrook in 1938 for 250 quid brand new. I attended Plympton Senior School and later Warrans on North Hill, Plymouth (The school no longer exists) I entered H.M.Dockyard as a Shipwright apprentice in 1945, served 5 years apprenticeship plus 2 and one half years as journeyman. Late February 1952 ...see more