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Chris Groves – Silver Jubilee in Gosport as a child

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I think we moved to Gosport in about 1976, it may have been ’75, because we had that wonderful summer of ’76 and the Queen’s Silver Jubilee then in ’77 and I was by that stage I was at Leesland School here in Gosport.

I fondly remember the Fancy Dress Parade and competition that we had for the ’77 Queen’s Silver Jubilee and then of course seeing the amazing spectacle of the Fleet Review out at Spit Head and all of the ships, of which dad, who had just left Opportune there was based in Dolphin then in Gosport, working in the Float Workshops, supporting submarines.

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