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18th September, 2018

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  My picture – sorry it is a bit dark – is 98 year old Mrs Mary Middlebrook in a beach hut at Southwold last week.

Mary travelled on the Southwold Railway in the 1920s when her family used to come on holiday, nearly every year,  to Southwold, travelling from Seven Kings, Ilford to the town via Liverpool Street and Halesworth where she remembers the footbridge connecting the two lines.

Mary also remembers being allowed to kneel up on the seat and wave to relatives at Laurel Farm as the train passed through Wenhaston.

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