REGULAR contributor Peter Price has been in touch with these photographs from his youth.

The first shows him and his pals taking part in Weymouth Carnival of 1936.

They were members of Weymouth Sea Scouts and were on a float with a torpedo from the Whitehead factory in Wyke Regis.

It was a Thornycroft lorry and the friends on it with Peter were Peter Hill and a lad whose surname was Buckel.

Peter said: “We used to go off to summer camp with the Scouts which we loved. The Scout master was a man called Ginger Bolton and he was a smashing chap.”

The second photograph was taken when Peter was older. He was in the fire service during the Second World War and was stationed at a garage in Abbotsbury Road, Weymouth between Franklin Road and Cromwell Road.

Peter remembered: “It was run by a man called Arthur Jeans and I remember he’d come out and fill up cars with petrol while smoking a huge cigar. I remember thinking it might have been a bit dangerous!

“When war came we were stationed at the garage in a room full of sandbags.

“There was no money for uniform or vehicles – all I had was my tin hat and an axe and we would drive to fires in an old car with the water pump in the back.

“There was no room in the car and I often had to sit on the pump and would get bounced all over the place.”

He added: “We were stationed in the garage during the Battle of Britain and I used to wonder how we would be able to help people if a bomb dropped on us because of all the petrol there.”

The third image is of Radipole Lane near Fiveways and shows the entrance to Chickerell airfield.

It was here that the aerobatic pioneer Alan Cobham would come and perform with his Flying Circus. Cobham Drive which leads off Radipole Lane was named for him.

Can anyone add to Peter’s memories?