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Filename: | 4429509009_f91acf565f_b.jpg |
Album name: | Prefect / Then & Now |
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Filesize: | 76 KiB |
Date added: | Aug 23, 2011 |
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Nice one, lived in the flats in the far left of the picture, now the hotel. When was it taken? looks early 60's
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I think it was 1973 Phill. As you have mentioned, those flats must have annoyed the occupants of the quarters behind them!
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What wonderful looking barracks they were.
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How wonderful to see this pic, I lived in the flats, one of the ones on the left I think and on the top level but can't remember which one. What an amazing view we had, I remember watching the Red Arrows fly at eye level up the creek!! So different there now but I am talking about 42 years ago!
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A very evocative picture. We lived in the block to the left of the boathouse (shows as black square). Sleeping on the balcony in a hammock listening to the sounds across the bay....
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I wonder why the flats could not have been converted into holiday flats? I think to the top left of the parade ground (as you look from the school) there was an old fort, with moat and drawbridge that Dad worked in sometimes; I think they pulled it all down to make a car park for a casino or something.
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Before the whole area was redeveloped the quarters flats were used as social housing and accommodation for Chinese drydock builders. Presume you are referring to Cambridge Battery. It became a hotel lido and now restored, its still there, though surrounded by skyscrapers.
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