Childhood Holidays

[Bentley Bullet]

Did I ever mention I was on School Trip to Guernsey and it was the night of the Great Train Robbery with none other than JR .



 

Is that where JR got his money from?

[Glyn_Wigley]

I grew up in Mablethorpe. We lived on Golden Sands (in a flat, not a caravan!) all year round for seven years behind the bar that my Dad ran for years. Until we finally managed to get a council house on Byron Road. We moved to Mablethorpe when my brother was just a year old and he's still there wth his family, so we're going to stay on Golden Sands next week so we can see them.

[Bentley Bullet]

When I went on holiday to Golden Sands in the mid to late 60's there were Blue caravans and Pink caravans. If I remember correctly, the Pink caravans were an upgrade on the Blue ones. We were in a Blue one, but my dad said we'd get a Pink one next year!

We never did, but instead, we went to Pontins at Brean Sands the following year. Now I don't know if my dad had been given a big pay rise that year, but to us, Brean Sands back then was like going to Florida these days!

[adamtherover]

Skeggy Butlins for years, then a few teenage years at great Yarmouth, then last family holiday was Spain, great times...  to say times have changed is an understatement, my lad who is only 14, has been to Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt x 3, turkey x 3, Bulgaria, Disneyland, Spain, Greece, centre parcs every Xmas, and I don't work any harder than my old man did..  just different times...

[River Don]

Regularly holidays on the East Coast, usually stayed in Filey, Brid and Scarborough too. We would also travel south, Devon, Cornwall, Isle of Wight one year, Eastbourne another.

TBH friends had started going abroad but my Mum resisted as she was terrified of flying and was frightened of trying foreign food. Eventually she got over that and in later life my parents got the cruising bug. (visit foreign places but still get British style food on board ship...)

[i_ateallthepies]

Can't help you there, DW.  Had a good look at old O/S maps thinking the railway might be shown but nothing.

[idler]

Primrose Valley caravan for us in the 50s then upgraded to a B&B in Brid a couple of times in the early 60s.
Hyde Park W.M.C. trip to Cleethorpes once a year as well. A ten Bob note on the way there and then a bag of rock on the platform to the kids on the way back.
I did get to Paris for five days in 1960 on the Oswin Avenue school trip. That was an experience. Teachers letting you have free time on a night and a group of eleven years olds going round the metro unsupervised. No health and safety then. We stayed in Saint Denis which is a rough area of Paris now.
I enjoyed most of those holidays as much or more than some foreign holidays later.

Now are you absolutely sure it wasn't Spurn point? 

Certain, I’ve got cousins in Hull. The French were easier to understand.

[Donnywolf]

Did I ever mention I was on School Trip to Guernsey and it was the night of the Great Train Robbery with none other than JR .



 

Is that where JR got his money from?

Could have been but talent got home here he is today

We did the Donny to Kings Cross route but the GTR was on the Glasgow Euston line so we were oblivious to that