Derek Stephens on Seaside

We used to also go on the Pier quite a bit because Shanklin Pier was there then and you always remembered … there was tall man on the Pier and he had a club foot and he used to shuffle about and he used to be one of these people who had a satchel round him with pennies in so you used to change money to people but we never liked him.

We had to try and always avoid him you know ‘cos he was a scary sort of person.

He was tall and as I say he picked his foot up as he walked, it was sort of a bit scary you know, so we used to go on there and we used to look for pennies on the floor and we used to put the little spoons in the slot machines and things like that. It was an absolute pain really.

We never paid to go on the Pier, we used to wait until there was a crowd going on and sort of just go through with them.