Hi Around about the summer of 1971 the Fish and Chip shop was run by a Mr Adlington in the evenings he was then a driving examiner by day He was one of my friends dad. I remember the Lido PO around that time as I was frequently at the Lido Sean Doherty -----Original Message----- From: isle-of-thanet-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:isle-of-thanet-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of LAWRENCE BRIDGER Sent: 26 October 2006 22:56 To: isle-of-thanet@rootsweb.com; Isle of Thanet Subject: Re: [ISLE-OF-THANET] The Lido, Margate Hi Mike, It appears that you have certainly stirred some memories of the Lido amongst the listers. My father was the sub postmaster of the Lido Post Office between 1961 and 1971 on the corner of Ethelbert Road and Ethelbert Terrace right opposite the tower. I lived in the top flat so you could see right down into the sun terrace where Tony Savage used to play the organ for all the pensioners and they used to have a singsong every day. At the side of the terrace was the Jamaica Inn. Sheriff Danny Arnold used to come in the Post Office regularly and every Sunday lunch time he would be climbing all over the Lido roof with his cowboys having a pretend gun fight to advertise his Golden Garter Saloon to the new arrivals, nearly everyone at that time arrived on Saturdays. If the weather was warm the roof of the theatre would slide open. Loads of stars used to appear at the theatre, the one we used to see most of was Bill Maynard, (Greengrass) who used to drive around in an open Landrover, and every week he would be in to post a registered letter. I think Charlie Drake was there one season. Early one evening I was standing outside the Post Office before the visitors were going to the shows when the tower, which is a chimney, suddenly belched out vast clouds of black smoke. It was obvious something had caught fire so I phoned for the fire brigade. The fish and chip shop on the slope down to the sun terrace was ablaze and we ended up with six or seven fire engines deployed with hoses everywhere. I think that must have occurred in the late sixties. I see you have already had a reply from Sean, it's a small world, when we left the Lido Post Office, I worked at the DHSS and Sean was one of my bosses for a few years. With regard to our Langston connections I haven't done any research on them recently, I've been more involved with my research into Garlinge and Dent de Lion which is coming along quite well. I see you were making enquiries regarding the isolation hospital a few weeks ago. I think you will find that the records are at the archive centre at Whitfield. If my memory is not playing tricks I believe they are not available for research, they are closed for something like 75 or 100 years. When I was at the centre regularly about three years ago I think I saw the closure notice on their index file. Laurie Bridger. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ISLE-OF-THANET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by the http://www.orbital.net MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------