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In his weekly Turnstone column, Hunstanton writer John Maiden discusses the days when his mother looked after the children of servicemen… Anyone who lived in or around Hunstanton in the 1950s will realise why my hometown rejoiced in the name of “Little America”. Living at 79 Westgate (now home to the Sue Ryder shop) my family was surrounded by families of USAF servicemen based at RAF Sculthorpe. My mother would often be called upon to babysit for these lucky Americans, who could see what a good job she had done in raising three fine offspring of her own, which of course included me, who woul…

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