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Stan Holford

Stan belongs to: The Diving Centre Ltd

Stan became fascinated with diving from an early age from reading stories about the frogmen. He started The Diving Centre Ltd in 1959.

Stan was interviewed by Carl Greenwood on 7 November 2005. The interview took place at the Interviewee's living room and lasted 1 hour, 27 minutes and 45 seconds.

Photograph of Stan Holford
Photograph of Stan Holford

Starting diving

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"How did I first find out about diving? Reading about frogmen during the war"

How did I first find out about diving? Reading about frogmen during the war, the Italians, the French who decided not to fight, Buster Crabbe, reading all those types of books, the experiments with the human torpedoes, the X-Craft, God they were all things in my imagination that I wanted to do in the future. So everything there was to read on the subject, I saved up and bought and read and developed the skills of diving from there which have stood me in awful good stead for the rest of my life.

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ww2 wrecks

Hi just interested if anybody has dived on the ww2 trawler james ludford which was mined off of tyneside 14/12/1939 my father was only surviver from that vessel any info thanks neil.

By neil On 3 April 2007

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