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Southmead News & What’s On
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OUR GENERATION! From: The 1970s Southmead Facebook Group n early December 2019, former Southmead lad Bradley Lane was looking through some old snaps and came across one from around 1978, taken at Portsmouth Docks. It was a Fonthill School Camp Group photo taken outside of the HMS Victory. Bradley says, “I got to thinking how much I had enjoyed the first ten years of my life when I was living in Southmead and started reliving some of my memories. That’s when I decided to start the 1970s Southmead Group on Facebook and see what other people remembered about the area at that �me. I could not believe how fast it took off and how many
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great stories and pictures were posted. We currently have 3074 members! The Group has been really successful in reconnec�ng people who have lost touch over the years and I have had many people thanking me for helping them to revive old friendships”. Early on, Bradley picked up that the members would like to do something to help the community and that’s when the idea of a fundraiser for the Youth Club and The Ranch came into existence. The members have been very generous to date, dona�ng £850 and that figure is s�ll growing. The next thing that became apparent was that having some sort of 1970s get-together would prove to be con�nued on page 3 . . .
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