RICHARD ALLEN SCOTT - Through the Years

RICHARD ALLEN SCOTT
THROUGH THE YEARS
1953
Don’t know what happened to 1952, but here I am in 1953, my
school photo. I have a vague recollection of crying like a baby
once because I couldn’t tie my shoe laces when it was time to
go home from school!
A look through the photo albums reveals a good holiday every
year, and evidently quite often with Nan and Grandpa Lowen,
and sometimes Stella (poor Dad). Since neither us nor Nan
and Grandpa Lowen owned a car, we must have taken the
train or bus to our destinations.
This 1953 holiday was to Sandown on the Isle of Wight, off the
coast of southern England. The island has resorts that have
been holiday destinations since Victorian times, and is known
for its mild climate (with palm trees!), and coastal scenery.
5 years old - 1953
The island has been home to Queen Victoria, who built her
much-loved summer residence and final home Osborne House at East
Cowes. It has a maritime and industrial tradition including boat
building, sail making, the manufacture of flying boats, the hovercraft,
and Britain's space rockets.
It has some of the richest cliffs and quarries for dinosaur fossils in
Europe.
The Isle was owned by a Norman family until 1293 and was earlier a
kingdom in its own right. The island has played an important part in the
defence of the ports of Southampton and Portsmouth, and been near
the front-line of conflicts through the ages, including the Spanish
Armada and the Battle of Britain.
Sandown, Isle of Wight
June 2017
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