...........at Car Boot Sales.
A group of us from Stowmarket Grammar School went on an Educational School Cruise on board the SS Nevasa in October 1969 but I have nothing left to remind me of it - and very few memories .
So spotting this among the house clearance stuff at last Saturdays car-boot sale was a Huge surprise.
It's a scrapbook by Sally-Ann Rogers, a Bury St Edmunds Silver Jubilee pupil (a girls Secondary Modern school that amalgameted with the boys school in 1971 and no longer exists) who went on an educational cruise on the SS Nevasa in 1966.
She had kept a lot of the brochures they must have been given - I don't think we had any of these.
I kept my log book - like Sally's below for many years but don't have it now.
Her cruise was two weeks and they went to different places to our cruise (except for Gibralter). She even received letters from her mother and a friend sent to the ship and they did lessons everyday too. I don't think we did and certainly no one sent letters to the ship. From what I can see there were also other adult independent passengers on the cruise apart from the various school groups and their teachers, that's something I don't think happened on our cruise.
I'd not thought about my 1969 cruise for ages - I have no photos. My dad was into slides for photography and so any photos I took were made into slides and I don't remember seeing them. I do remember my camera going wrong somewhere so maybe I didn't get any photos at all.
I googled SS Nevasa to see what I could find online and discovered a facebook group
HERE just in case you are curious! By the time of our cruise there were just two ships doing Educational Cruises - The Nevassa and the SS Uganda.
I spent £2 on the scrapbook and it's been interesting looking at all the pages and finding things online about the ships and the cruises.
You just never know what's lurking in boxes at boot sales!
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