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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.

Trail-a-boats

Trail-a-boats

Stan at Beadnell with is Trail-a-boats van. During the summer months Stan lived in the van and hired equipment from the beach.

Stan has 19 memories in the memorynet:

Stan's memories with a Work theme:

•  Commercial diving
•  Treasure Hunt
•  Trail-a-boats
•  Hard hat

Stan's other memories:

•  Starting diving
•  Starting The Diving Centre
•  Training programmes
•  Early wetsuits
•  Clammy death
•  Commercial diving gear
•  Training people to breathe properly
•  Diving in the North Sea
•  Sounds
•  Diving in Malta
•  Wreck diving
•  Stan
•  Freddy the Dolphin
•  The Lobster Pot
•  Waterskiing the English Channel

This memory has these themes:
Lifestyles | The North East | Work

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