Some Childhood Memories

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The challenge was thrown down by user Lori A Moore in: http://www.mylot.com/post/2877649/seven-childhood-memories-challenge It has been picked up by other MyLotters, so I thought I would add mine for everyone to consider: 1) Spending time at my Grandma's house in the summer months. She lived on a hill overlooking the beach in the town of Swanage in Dorset. The view from the back garden was bliss, one of the best places to be in summer. We would walk down to the beach, through the town, play on the beach all day then have to climb the hill in the evening - I swear it was twice as steep going up as going down. 2) Those magnificent men in their flying machines - a film about an air race from London to Paris. 3) My paper round - this was a way that I could earn some money and be a little independent (and the money didn't go on sweets/candy). 4) Football and Cross Country Running I loved football (what you Americans call soccer) and was very good at it, but a quirk of timing meant that I didn't get in my school team, so I decided to take up cross country running, once I started training I became very good at it. 5) Freemantle school. This was my first school, but was closed when I was 10, so I had to go to another school for 1 year. Not necessarily the best school, I just remember it. 6) Frequent visits to London My mother and father both came from London (where I was born) but we lived on the south coast (just over an hour away) and we would regularly go to visit my nan (my father's mother) who lived right next to a park, that was a great place to play. 7) Where Dad Worked My father was a builder who worked for the port authority. At work he had a hut that he and his mates used during breaks etc. At that time getting into the port was not complex, the guard knew us as "Harry's kids" so we got in and went to his hut - definitely a cool thing for a little kid to do.