Childhood Holidays

[Bentley Bullet]

When I was a kid we went to Beacholme holiday camp in Cleethorpes. I remember my dad pointing over the sea and telling us it was France in the distance. The magic of the place somewhat diminished after learning that 'the sea' was actually an estuary, and 'France' was actually Spurn Point!

Following a couple of holidays in Cleggy, we 'upgraded' to Golden Sands in Mablethorpe.

Dead posh we were.

Where did you holiday as a kid?

   

[Filo]

Cleethorpes early years, then Yarmouth, Scotland, Cornwall Devon and Spain Lloret de Mar

[nightporter]

We went to Mablethorpe almost every year, in a rented bungalow, think it was called Hazeldene. We just crossed the road and it was into the sand dunes, we'd play for hours, no parents in sight. Evening was crazy golf then amusements.  Went to Blackpool one year, not as good. 

[i_ateallthepies]

Went to Beacholme camp twice.  First time I'd be nine or ten and we got the best week's weather of the summer, absolutely cracking the flagstones.  Spent all day every day around the pool and there was always entertainment going on.

Second time I was about fourteen and spent most of my week on the snooker tables.  Evenings with Mam & Dad in the Beachcomber bar.  Dad got talking to a guy at the bar holidaying on his own so invited him to sit with us which he did for the rest of the week, nice chap and impressed my dad that he never missed his turn to get a round in.  Wasn't until we got home that Dad told me the chap was Alick Jeffrey's brother, don't know if it was true but there certainly was a likeness.

[Bentley Bullet]

The outdoor pool at Beacholme is exactly the same now as it was back in the 60's. The clubhouse doesn't look much different either. I remember the snooker tables being upstairs. I think it was the early to mid-60s when we saw Ray Reardon, who was making a personal appearance there.

[knockers]

We always used to go to Looe in Cornwall as that’s where Dads from.
Going down in December this year on FA Cup weekend

[ravenrover]

Day trips with Scawthorpe Club
Brid, Cleggy or Scarbados

[Mike_F]

Usually Mablethorpe for me too. Victoria chalet park just by entrance to the beach down the bottom end of town.

Victoria curry house used to do a fantastic Vindaloo. Anyone else remember the curiosity museum basically built in the downstairs of someone's house?

Also went to Newquay twice, Weymouth, Westward Ho! and Llandudno. Never had the money to go abroad.

[tommy toes]

A week in a caravan at Primrose Valley every year, with a day pass to Butlins, then there was the Club trip from Skellow Grange to Cleethorpes.
30 bob spending money and free pop and crisps on the coach.
Happy days.

[Dutch Uncle]

We went down to visit family near Swansea every year, we were on the Gower beaches a lot, but we also went to South Pembrokeshire - Pendine, Tenby, Saundersfoot

[ravenrover]

A week in a caravan at Primrose Valley every year, with a day pass to Butlins, then there was the Club trip from Skellow Grange to Cleethorpes.
30 bob spending money and free pop and crisps on the coach.
Happy days.

30bob! crikey all the kids got was a tanner and a bag of sweets in the 50's/60's. When are you talking about TT?
Always remember all the Dads and Grandads straight into the pub Mams Grandmas on the beach with the kids.
If the womem went to the pub as well later in the afternoon,remember the pubs shut in the afternoon in those days, we were left to sit on the step outside the pub with a bag of crisps and a bottle of Pop

[Hounslowrover]

We went to Primrose Valley in Filey one year, and a b&b another year.  Generally Scarborough, Bridlington, Filey or Cleethorpes for the day.  However as I was born in Scotland with a Scottish mother, lots of holidays in Selkirk with cousins and grandparents, often with my mum while dad was still working.

[tommy toes]

A week in a caravan at Primrose Valley every year, with a day pass to Butlins, then there was the Club trip from Skellow Grange to Cleethorpes.
30 bob spending money and free pop and crisps on the coach.
Happy days.

30bob! crikey all the kids got was a tanner and a bag of sweets in the 50's/60's. When are you talking about TT?
Always remember all the Dads and Grandads straight into the pub Mams Grandmas on the beach with the kids.
If the womem went to the pub as well later in the afternoon,remember the pubs shut in the afternoon in those days, we were left to sit on the step outside the pub with a bag of crisps and a bottle of Pop

Yes Raven 30bob. A pound note and a ten bob note. It was from 63 to 68 when I would have gone.
The amount of money you got depended on how much your dad put in the savings club for the trip.
My dad was a good un!

[andy didcott]

Always east coast, Filey and Whitby, never went abroad. Sometimes down to dug outs down don banks for a dip as well.

[belton rover]

Club trips from Hawthorn Club for me. Looked forward to these as if it was two weeks in Spain. The best part was the water pistol fight on the train on the way home.

[Colemans Left Hook]

When I was a kid we went to Beacholme holiday camp in Cleethorpes. I remember my dad pointing over the sea and telling us it was France in the distance. The magic of the place somewhat diminished after learning that 'the sea' was actually an estuary, and 'France' was actually Spurn Point!

Following a couple of holidays in Cleggy, we 'upgraded' to Golden Sands in Mablethorpe.

Dead posh we were.

Where did you holiday as a kid?


 

if i was your dad i would have said we were only a short boat trip from Gibraltar Point

[tyke1962]

Bridlington , same fortnight every year , same guesthouse and same chalet on the front .

All the family went , grandad , grandma , aunts , uncles , cousins .

Fantastic memories that have never left me .

We stopped for an ice cream the other week at Brid on a day trip and I looked up and it was the exact spot where that chalet was , the chalets are gone but the steps up to them are still there .

There I was with my two grandkids , I had a moment and could see my grandad up there sat on his deck chair , white crisp shirt and braces , flat white cap with his binoculars , a Park Drive in the side of his mouth .

My grandma fetching him his tea with a nip of brandy in it .

It was one of those moments .

[auckleyflyer]

Nana had a static in reighton gap so that was us every year! To be fair we loved it.
Used to do every club day trips also " cabbage, bomb, New club and park club. So made it out of Yorkshire to Blackpool once or twice!!
No bloody wonder I wanted to see more so joined the Navy!!

[danumdon]

How about a two and a half day train ride across France and Switzerland and six weeks holidays in Naples! my dad was a tight bugger and could not miss out on free train tickets back to the old country every year.

All us kids just wanted to spend every day on the beach (volcanic rock, used to burn your feet to stumps)but we had to get dressed in our best garb and go see about fifty relatives, every bloody day of the holidays, not just that we also had to have breakfast dinner and tea with them as well!

Frustrating as anything until we got back and hit the beach so i could wash my face after all the sloppy kisses i'd had to endure all bloody day, urg.

You've not seen anything until you've viewed the arse end of Europe looking out of a train window for two days, fantastic.

[ravenrover]

Forgot about our annual trip to..............the fee course at Town Moor, Leger week.
My Dad, Mam and her whole extended family, my Grandparents, 3 Aunties, 4 Uncles, too many cousins to remember. If my Dad had a winner it was a few bob to spend on the fair before we went home

[SydneyRover]

We had a few days maybe five in Filey, in a cottage, gawd knows where the money came from, I remember an old ship wreck and a dead otter on the beach. At night the beam from the lighthouse would flood the room, at intervals of course.

Pretty sure this would have been the boat, it was upright under the the cliffs, I was probably about 6-7 at the time.

https://blaydesmaritime.hull.ac.uk/2022/01/05/the-lives-of-a-yorkshire-shipwreck/

[BahrainRover]

Nana had a static in reighton gap so that was us every year! To be fair we loved it.
Used to do every club day trips also " cabbage, bomb, New club and park club. So made it out of Yorkshire to Blackpool once or twice!!
No bloody wonder I wanted to see more so joined the Navy!!

Reighton Gap for us also loved it, apart from the bloody hike back up the hill.

[Donnywolf]

Can you Beacholme / Fitties goers remember the Railway that started where the current CCLR ends , close to Buck Beck

It then ran to Fitties

I also found a Forum a while ago which included memories of The Creek , the Fort and this Railway. Sure the guy was Rod Williams or Rob Williams but haven't found it yet

https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2021/02/never-seen-before-photos-uncovered-after-50-years-of-the-lincolnshire-coast-light-railway.html

This is the Railway though.

[Bentley Bullet]

Interesting read, Wolf. When I was a kid in the 60's, I'm sure the locos used had 2 Deltic-like front windows, but I couldn't find any photographic evidence of them.

Does anyone else remember them?

[Donnywolf]

I remember that Blue carriage cos I rode it many times in 60s

Woman near us had a Caravan and we used to hire it. I'm sure it would have been 2 bob (a year) it was so modern and clean lol

Then we stepped up to Ozone a little hutch on Fitties. One summer probably in June was scorching and my Dad , brother and me got burnt to a crisp. Sunstroke etc

We were laid out 2 days or more then we spent rest of holiday laid in shade of a big tree in the garden.

A couple of years back ( after 60 years I suppose ) I went looking for Ozone and there it was , still there .

Don't know if it was same holiday but my dad decided on a walk over The Creek towards The Fort. However people have been killed in the past or luckier stranded and rescued by RNLI . I was oblivious to this of course but once the tide turns The Creek becomes deep and fast very quickly

All of a sudden an old bloke looking like Captain Birds Eye with scrambled egg hat came onto sands whistling loudly and waving us back. We joined hands the 4 of us and waded through but hell it was a right current and I was sure we would be bowled over

Capt Birds Eye gave old fella ( my dad would have been 40 ish ) a right going over

Responsible parenting 1 and 2 there. Burn your kids to a crisp and / or drown them

Very soon after a youngish lad from Stainy got cut off and didn't survive. These days they have a Fastrack thing and come out with horns blowing if they see anyone in danger once the tide turns though The Creek has changed course quite a lot

Got to cut my dad some slack though as he introduced me to Rovers before either of those
"incidents" and I remember him for that one BIG  plus rather than the negatives

[Bentley Bullet]

Here we go, I knew I was right!

https://live.staticflickr.com/5611/15360520229_6637fd4ea9_b.jpg

[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.

[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 .


 

[Donnywolf]

Here we go, I knew I was right!

https://live.staticflickr.com/5611/15360520229_6637fd4ea9_b.jpg

Yes well remembered. Here are more of the North Sea Lane to South Sea Lane engines etc.

I'm sure this Railway ran from where the Celtic thing stopped and ran to South Sea Lane Station right into Fitties that it

Used to catch little un then swap to big in

http://www.davesrailpics.bravehost.com/lclr/lclr.htm

[Bentley Bullet]

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?