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Springhill camp mid 1970's

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I have just registered on this site and would be interested in hearing from anyone who attended the springhill camps (near aldeburgh) in the early/mid 1970's
 
Just a quick one to say welcome. I hope you get loads of responses.
 
Hi James, welcome. What were these camps? Can you give us some more inormation?
 
hi and welcome james hope you get a good response
 
Springhill was an educational summer camp for young diabetics in aldeburgh. As a new young diabetic i attended several as a camper and subsequently on the staff.

As facebook and reunited sites grow it encouraged me to trace the people I spent time with, although apart from one name all are lost to my memory and posting here might allow a gentle reintroduction
 
Good luck in finding some fellow campers, James. I guess if people don't know what Springhill means, they weren't there (even though it was 1970s, not 1960s)!
My only memories of Aldeburgh don't involve diabetes camps, but do involve Bridge activity camps for people from Cambridge, trying to propel wheelchairs along the pebbly beaches - so difficult, that several people decided to rely on their sticks or people to hold on to!
Never really thought before of the relative merits of sandy and pebbly beaches in connection with diabetes - hoping some Springhill campers can enlighten me!
 
I remember reading about the camps but little else. My parents were somewhat annoyed as I could not get a place on one and yet the BDA always wanted donations for them. I supect I might have benefited from attending as the only other diabetic I knew was a rather sickly girl. Everyone that attended the clinic seemed to be elderly and suffering from complications - all rather depressing!
 
These Camps & type of thing are Brill. Get your kids to one ! Duk do a similar thing ! I wish I was a kid again 🙄 Good luck
 
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