Off Duty Activities...

Life at Winterton was more intense than Prestatyn and although there was a "k" site in the same guarded compound we had very little to do with their personnel they lived in separate huts and had no idea of what we did.

Our off duty activities were mainly cycling (I visited dozens of Norfolk chuches) sailing to Yarmouth for the cinema and Norwich for a day out. At nearby Hemsby part of the beach was clear of mines for swimming but not used very often.

One Autumn day in 1944 I was learning camp on my bike and I fell to the ground and heard loud report. It was a V2, I was not hurt a little damage was done and it fell in the sand dunes between the living accommodation and the sea.