RAF families in the 50's

billies54


Joined: 20/03/2011
Posts: 1

Message Posted:
21/03/2011 06:02

My best childhood memories! As RAF kid.

cacthing lizards swimming in the sea the sand dunes, shishkebabs.

i went to infant school here...think it was farmagusta..

any one else around the age of five in 1959?

negativenick


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 6023

Message Posted:
21/03/2011 06:12

happy days - and look what a mes the place is now.......



sorry to sound so negative.......

shrimp


Joined: 01/09/2010
Posts: 939

Message Posted:
21/03/2011 09:49

Yes, biillies54, I was there too..........such wonderful memories, camping on the beach, picking mushrooms in the waddy, swimming out to sea to a raft on the backs of soldiers and being thrown in! I could swim before I could walk, my first day at school was at five mile point, just outside of Nicosia.....many pictures, wonder if you are in any of them!...x

Geoff


Joined: 25/06/2008
Posts: 1370

Message Posted:
21/03/2011 10:08

Is this (as Col Gaddaffi woud call it) another "colonial crusade"?

Geoff

Norbid


Joined: 02/02/2009
Posts: 22

Message Posted:
21/03/2011 16:18

Oh yes, I was there and I remember all the above. It was indeed a different place then!

Norman

shrimp


Joined: 01/09/2010
Posts: 939

Message Posted:
21/03/2011 20:33

Norbid, on your profile you state you are only 16(?) how can you remember.....?

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
21/03/2011 20:41

I was her in 1956 , famagusta. Army child. I remember great days and loving this place. I have lived in 13 or 14 countries whilst my father was in the army but this one stuck with me. I loved Germany, Bahrain Cyprus, the others merge into one. I do remember all the schools though x

Norbid


Joined: 02/02/2009
Posts: 22

Message Posted:
21/03/2011 21:08

Oops, my partner being a little optimistic with our age, amended now!