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gdm27 · 21-04-2012, 14:39

Do you remember the 1st time you left Accy on more than a day trip. Mine was the school (Rhyddings) trip to St Margarets Bay Kent schools holiday camp around 1964 I think I was 11 at the time. An old army camp next to a turkey farm. Never been out of Accrington and never been away from Mum and Dad before! Thought I'd gone abroad!! A whole week of trips, watching the older boys fighting with other schools older boys and the older girls, well doing what older girls did!!! Was another 5 years or so before I went "abroad" again when I went down to London in an old Cortina with a couple of guys from Pilkingtons! Didn't actually go abroad for the 1st time until I went working on cruise ships in 1981.

21-04-2012, 14:39	#1
gdm27 Full Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: St. Annes Posts: 352 Liked: 16 times Rep Power: 2999	1st real holiday outside Lancashire. Do you remember the 1st time you left Accy on more than a day trip. Mine was the school (Rhyddings) trip to St Margarets Bay Kent schools holiday camp around 1964 I think I was 11 at the time. An old army camp next to a turkey farm. Never been out of Accrington and never been away from Mum and Dad before! Thought I'd gone abroad!! A whole week of trips, watching the older boys fighting with other schools older boys and the older girls, well doing what older girls did!!! Was another 5 years or so before I went "abroad" again when I went down to London in an old Cortina with a couple of guys from Pilkingtons! Didn't actually go abroad for the 1st time until I went working on cruise ships in 1981.