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USAF Pamela Zimmerman Recalls
My name
is Pamela Simmerman. I have been
looking for old pictures of the house I
used to
live in when my father was stationed at
Brize Norton 1955-58. He was
USAF.
I was
born in Nov. 1949. I believe
the date we moved to Bampton was Dec.
1954. My
brother was born in August of 1955, at
Burdrop Park.(I don't know where that
is!)
Before
we moved to "Maryville"
Carterton the house just outside the
camp gates on he
Black Bourton rd we lived in Bampton at
the Talbot Inn. We lived there for 1
1/2
years. Our apt. was the one with
the window over the garage at the
front, and
extended to the back. We loved it!
Dinner each night with all the guests.
The
owners then were Bill and Mamie Long.
They had a dog called "Sue
Sue" a golden
retriever. Down the street from the
Talbot was the butcher shop. I was
friends
with the butchers daughter. Her name
was Jane (wish I could remember her
last
name) and we were around 5 years old.
Her dad would play and chase us
upstairs
with the meat cleaver! (Here in the
States I'm afraid they wouldn't see the
humor in that!) I have a picture of
her, a friend named Peter and
myself and
other classmates along with the
teacher,taken at a private school. I
will have
to find out the name of the school. The
teachers name was Mrs. Nesbitt I
believe. I really loved it there in
Bampton and Brize Norton. I recall
playing
by a stream with beautiful bridges and
making "lily pad flowers" and
following
them downstream. Romping thru fields.
It truly was a childs dream type of
childhood. On foggy nights when you
could barely see your hand in front
of your
face, we would walk to get fish &
chips. My mother tells me that the
"Sir" who
crowned Queen Elizabeth used to come to
the Talbot and he would sit me on his
lap and talk to me in the parlour by
the fireplace.(I don't know how
accurate
she is, or if I made sense of that
one!) My parents used to play darts in
the
Talbot and the Firemen would be there
playing also. If my memory serves my
right, the fire station was across from
the Talbot. I used to wait for the
trucks to put on sirens and dash out!
Anyway!
Below are some of
he photos
Pam took when she was in
England
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