Sunny Holidays

[mange]

I remember your dad spoiling you rotten so i cant believe me was ever that mean.

[mange]

my mum and dad had a camper van that was alwaya braeking down remember spending half of my holls on a layby ho happy days

[lettie]

Originally Posted by mange

I remember your dad spoiling you rotten so i cant believe me was ever that mean.

The spoiling came after the divorce, he could afford it by then... He still spoils us rotten now though..

[Terry]

Originally Posted by pendy

Does anyone remember the excitement of trying to be the first one to see the Tower? and the way it changed sides as the train drew on? Although the weather in Blackpool and Lytham was often not great, we didn't seem to feel the cold. And the way everyone sat on the beach dressed as if for a tea party?

I know we now can have fabulous holidays in faraway places, but are we really any happier with them than those much anticipated weeks at
Blackpool?

Yes Pendy. My dad used to say when on the train from Accy "first to see Blackpool Tower gets a penny"

[grannyclaret]

oooh we got a threepenny bit..... but its a long time ago...

[mez]

yea ours was a threepenny bit too......he he he

[West Ender]

When I was very young we never went away as a family. After the war my dad was in business as a spectacle frame maker in Bolton, later became an optician, and I can't remember him ever taking time off until I was about 10. I used to spend my Summer holidays, from the age of 7, with a childless aunt and uncle in Whitley Bay, Northumberland and I loved it. They had a quite large house with a big garden, only half a mile from the beach. Auntie was a cordon-bleu cook (she had little else to do apart from bridge parties) so I ate wonderfully well and I was the "daughter" she never had so I was indulged.

Whitley Bay had a lovely beach, was very unspoilt in those days, and there was Spanish City, the smaller equivalent of Blackpool pleasure beach. It may have been the freezing North Sea but it was there that I learned to swim on my back, in the sea, where Uncle Vic taught me how to "skim" stones across the water and where I spent some of the most carefree times of my life.

[thindle]

Wakes Week
Come July it'll be wakes week, When most people go away
Some folks travel t' Blackpool. Some fer a week or a day.
Mi favrite place wer' Blackpoo' I' digs on General Street.
At Mrs Pooles, wi mi Mam an Dad, We allus stopped fer a week.
Y' could bet ther wer' someone ther we knew. Oo'ed come fro' our 'ome town.
Fer i'd wer Accrinton's wakes week.They'd come t' try t'ge'd brown.
Ah couldn't wait t' ged down t' beach. In a deck chur mi Mam allus sat.
While me an mi Dad sailed on a boat, no further thant' pier that wer that.

Wi'd build sand castles an wid mek sand pies. I'd ride on a donkey named Jill.. Then wid eat shrimps an ice cream, an Mother ud sey. Dorned eat so much tha'l be ill.
T'ower an t' cirus wer allus a must. Wi offen went in t' zoo. There wer lions an t'igers an munkeys. An aquerium wi lots a fish too.
Ther wer shows on all o't piers, wi singers an dancers galore. As wi sat theer in't theatre wetchin, knowin't' sea wer theer under t' floor.
Ther were side shows all along t' promenade. Cum see tattooed lady they cried. or 't two eedid twins, or't worlds thinnest man.
An fairyland's on'y tuppence a ride. I'ds allus excitin at Blackpoo. There's plenty to do an t' see.Wakes weeks ar over an it's time to go 'ome. Mi Dad an mi Mam, an Me . Ah! Memories.:engsmil:

[shillelagh]

My July holidays were 2 weeks in northern ireland every year. Always without fail i would miss the last week of school and spend my birthday either travelling or in northern ireland. My mum & dad came from there and used to go 'home' and visit everybody. We used to stop at Granny's until she died and then we stopped at my aunts for a couple of years and then at a hotel. Used to spend a week visiting everybody and then the second week we'd set off and go out on day trips or drive round ireland but always end up back where we set off from for the last night. Then go for the ferry in the morning. We always went stranraer to larne on sealink. Never had seasickness and went to holland with the school when i was in the 3rd year and we sailed the north sea in the middle of a storm - me and one of the teachers were the only ones who wasnt seasick - well when you've crossed the irish sea in storms the north sea is nothing! lol Come September though we would have a week in Morecambe and we always stopped in the same flats every year without fail. Easter we went to scotland and always ended up at Loch Ness and Fort William on the Sunday.