AN ‘Echoes of the Past’ picture of Winton with its 1960s Sainsbury shop and Winton Methodist Church opposite was quite a surprise to me, recalling many happy occasions at the church.

Evacuated to grannies in the war, on Osborne Road I attended Sunday School from 1940s onwards.

I also enjoyed the youth club there in my teens. Plus I married my wife there in March 1953.

We didn’t quite make to the diamond anniversary.

It gets lonely on dark, cold wet winter nights.

P WAREHAM, Haymoor Road, Poole