Happy memories of 'Runway Park'

We were in Gosford yesterday visiting, had lunch at the Leagues Club and picked up your newspaper.

It brought back so many happy memories for my husband.

My husband, now in his 70s, used to play in "Runway Park" on a crashed Wirraway aeroplane.

He did that, he remembers, for two to three years.

He spent many hours riding his push bike all around Ocean Beach and Ettalong from breakfast until dark.

The gravel on the runway was perfect Shanghai ammunition.

There were lots of kids collecting their ammunition.

Unfortunately we are no longer local people.

My husband's grandparents lived in what was then called Ocean Beach every school holiday because both his parents worked.

Those times were the happiest of his childhood.

My "oldies" lived in Booker Bay, so my holidays were spent there not realising that one day I would marry someone else who spent their school holidays on the Central Coast.

It is so good the park is to stay and not be developed.

Open space is needed for kids like my husband.

Emails, 22 and 23 Sep 2016

Pamela Garske, Winston Hills