From rootsweb guestbook:
Mary Wall mary.wall@ic24.net Date 30 March 2002 Thanks to the article in this weeks Folkestone Herald about this web page, I have had a very enjoyable hour browsing through the site.
I came to live in Folkestone in 1947 and my family lived briefly with an aunt in Clarence Street. Very soon we managed to rent a house in Bradstone Road (The monkey puzzle houses), where we were lucky to live in a 'front' house.
I have many happy memories of the area, especially playing in the garage at the bottom of Clarence Street and Bradstone Road and the kindness of the three brothers who owned the garage. Their surname was French. They gave us local children a big room which was used as a tyre store at the back of the garage which we turned into a club room. From this room we could gain access to the Methodist cemetary which stood on high ground between "The Brickfields" and Bradstone Road.
This is part of my site The FG that I built in a fury of excitement when I first came here in approximately 2004. I'd been a frequent visitor for a few years before that but I am technically one of those Down From Londons you get nowadays. The site was a lot more dynamic with a calendar of events and voting for favourite places and stuff, and I know it was a useful reference for those who were thinking of moving here. Now I've moved out of Folkestone again (though just to Hythe) it doesn't get as much attention as it used to. Ironic really as The town is becoming the exciting place we always thought it was just about to. My name is not Gerald by the way, this comes from a pretend newspaper in an episode of The Day Today or something, the Portsmouth Gerald, and how there is a local newspaper here called the Folkestone Herald. Puns like this are GRATE aren't they? Do contact me if you have something to contribute, email anythign @ this domain, or try @folkestone or @pauly on the twitter.