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Our family went to Morecambe every year cause that's all they could afford. Tried every method, again which they could afford, tent, caravan, flat and guesthouse. Again it never rained, did the only time we went to Blackpool. Back in the 50's Morcambe had everything and more. 2 piers, 2 fairgrounds, an old pirate ship and truckloads of places to go crabbin! Both gone now but thanks again Mum and Dad for all the times you managed to get us away when you had nowt!! xx :):):):)

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We went to Pilling a couple of times and stayed in a caravan. One year when they must have been a bit flush they took us to a boarding house in Douglas, Isle of Man.

I have vague memories but happy ones x

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Middleton Towers holiday camp, seems like a lifetime ago.

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Middleton Towers.. the one with the big concrete ship ??
brilliant..the place is now a gated retirement village well posh...ish

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Always went to the Costa Del Roughit (Blackpool) with ma and pa when I was a kid, the year before I got Married my intended and Parents went to Saundersfoot, near Tenby, very nice place

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Here's one I wrote earlier:-


One bank holiday weekend it was off to the caravan park for the weekend.
My brother and I had built a very large kite the week before and couldn't wait to fly it. It worked first time up it soared no problem absolutely stable! Perhaps if it hadn't worked straight away, our time would have been filled with making minor changes to the balance, instead we decided to see what we could lift with it.
we tried a variety of objects but none were as ambitious as the final experiment, I had one of those yogi bear punch bags which had a heavy weight at the bottom of it so that it always returned to the upright position.
Not a problem to our kite, up went yogi as if he weighed nothing at all.
Then disaster struck, the string attaching yogi to the kite snapped, down he plummeted straight through the sun roof of one of the caravans! The kite relieved of the extra weight immediatley soared up into the heavens and was well away from the accident.
The occupier of the caravan came running out with yogi under his arm looking all around him trying to work out where this damn thing had come from.
the only thing he could see were two innocent young lads hundreds of yards away intensely watching their kite, after a while he went back in, we wound in the string and 'legged it' vowing not fly it again that weekend just in case.
So if the owner of that caravan is reading this, SORRY! but I bet it looked good on your insurance claim form!

Right thats it for now, see you all again sometime maybe next bankholiday!

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We used to Alternate between Blackpool one year and Rhyl the next, or if we were occasionally flush, we had 2 weeks at one of those in July and a week at the other in Sept.

We did once try Bridlington though went on train...took 6 hours as i recall, and was only time we had never booked accomodation before we went. This probably worked in our favour in the end, as for some reason we decide we didn't like the look of brid, and got a train up to Scarborough, and just managed to sort some digs out as it was getting dark!

Have good memories of childhood hols! No matter how poor we were, Mum and Dad always managed to take me away, at least for a week. I remember my Dad once saying the total spending money they had left over for our Hols was £5 on one occasion! You'd just about get a Coffee and a Bun for that now!! We did always get to see shows, and go on coach trips to, when money was available. Seen many Artistes such as Joseph Locke, Val Doonican, Donald Peers, Dick Emery, Dickie Valantine, Frankie Vaughn, Hylda Baker, Morcambe and Wise, Kenn Dodd, Roy Orbison, The Dallas Boys, Jimmy Clitheroe,The Baron Knights, Freddy Starr, Les Dawson etc etc. Happy Days!

Best Regards - Taggy

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Bloody hell I forgot all those names sent shivers down my spine.

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in the 50's alway's fleetwood with grandparents good time's and very happy memories

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When I went to Blackpool with Mum and Dad we always went to shows nearly every night North Pier, Opera House, Winter Gardens Pavilion ABC Theatre, Tower Circus, so the likes of Tommy Cooper, Bruce Forsyth, Matt Munroe, Shirley Bassey ect, but always felt Friday night free for a blast on the Pleasure Beach:D

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I used to love going on Pleasure Beach too, still used to like having a walk round there up untill recently....you cant just walk round anymore i believe they charge just to go on now. Thats going to make it harder for parents today, my Mum and Dad used to take me on there 2 or 3 times each hol, but just went on 1 or 2 rides each time, that way it was split up over the week...folk arn't going to be able to afford to do that now!

A few other names i can reacall seeing there are Dickie Henderson, Joe "Mr Piano" Henderson, Hope and Keen, Jo Jac and Joni, Ken Platt, Jewell and Warriss, Moira Anderson, Kenneth McKellar, Ronnie Hilton and Freddy "Parrot Face" Davies.

I was probably about 7 or 8 the first time i saw Ken Dodd in Blackpool, my lad still thinks he's great and we are going to see him again at the Grand Theatre in November, cant be too many people you could go and see at the Theatre these days 45 years after you first saw them can there?? A true Legend is Doddy!!

Best Regards - Taggy

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There's a TV ad running at the moment Taggy, saying you can buy cheap pay bands on the Internet for weekends from the end of Feb until it opens fully or the season, I believe its an arm and a leg to use the Pleasure Beach now:mad:

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Thanks Taggy, for reminding those of us who remember the above artistes how old we have become :D

I'm thinking that 'summer shows' same artist playing the same resort all summer must have started dying out in the mid 60s

Al Gilmartin , have to agree , shivers down the spine

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Me and the misses were in Blackpool last Summer and went to have a walk around the pleasure beach and were gobsmacked to be asked for £5 each just to have a walk around????? The world gone mad!!!

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[quote=steeljack;786111]Thanks Taggy, for reminding those of us who remember the above artistes how old we have become :D

No Probs Steeljack......a look in the mirror first thing every morning does it for me!!:eek:

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[quote=Taggy;786120]I do that Taggy, but it frightens the hell out of me:eek::D

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Rhyl in a damp Caravan, New Brighton in the wet, classic British Summer hols, then we started getting exotic & headed South-South West-South East, such Jewels of Brit Hols as Margate Kent, East Anglia & the Broads, Dorset & Devon, even ventured North into the land of Thistle crunchers once :D such formative years for a young mind :s_aim1:

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I don't think you can beat a wet week in North Wales

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Two wet weeks in North Wales:D

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I agree, we used to go the Middleton Towers nearly every year, we had so much fun. I used to love the Ping Pong tables and the bicycles.

I also remember the waitress who used to serve us dinner for the week we were there. Actually I have an old photo somewhere of her.

Fond memories.

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we always went to Lydstep Haven in Tenby year after year now we go and take our kids we had the best times ever met same people week in year out in fact we went there and Vickt Entwistle (janice Battersby) went to the same place year after year she was always on stage and has done well for herself now

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as mam was a paddy,we always went to Lucan County Dublin, fer a fortnight wi relatives, used to go to Croke Park in dublin to watch the hurling final, also Portmarnock to watch Christy O Conner golfing, wi me mates oer yon, great days, still pop oer every few years to see em.:) went middleton towers think 63, n remember watching news yon, saying Drew had been stabbed to death on Blackburn Rd, under railway arch, put a big damper on that holiday.:(

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In line with the Pie shop thread, when Mum and Dad took us to Morecambe this particular year we had even less money than normal but they found a pie shop that did plate potato pie for just a tanner??? The only thing was it was next to the bowling alley all the way down the other end of town. Needs must when your broke, still loved it mind!! :):):)

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Was talking to my misses today about holidays when we were younger and going abroud came up. I told her that when our family could just afford to go to Morecambe or Blackpool back in the early 60's, the Such's that had the chippy on the corner of our street (Pendle St.) used to drive all the way to Bournmouth each year, took them about 8 hours or so. I thought that was abroad????

:alright:

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I once had a car like too G:D

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When i was a kid we only went for a day to blackpool,
when my kids were kids it was good old butlins every year,,,,went first in may for a week ,then while we were there we booked another week for september,,,and got a good discount,,,,much cheeper than going for 2 weeks in july

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Do you remember when suitcases didn't have wheels and when you got to Blackpool or Morecambe coach or rail station there was a mob of kids with trollies that would cart your cases to where ever you were staying. A tanner or a shilling depending how far they had to go??? :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

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Remember the time well Cashy, me and our Brian were at Blackpool when we found out about Drew. Was it by the old toilets or near them. Went to Blackpool early this year with my daughter. All I could afford there now was the tramfare and thats because I have a bus pass. I think Les Batersby was at the north pier telling jokes for a couple of beers or something.

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Near by twas under the Railway Bridge.;)

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Did you have a photo taken at the table with your family (and the one you were placed with for the duration of the stay)? Got ours in a little red spy hole canister thing that you could hold up to the light and enjoy forever.

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Its now a very expensive housing estate.:rolleyes:

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Yes we have three or four in a large box full of photos (memories) in the wardrobe going back ov
er sixty years. Very large box.

Just found this post today, exellent reading.

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Do you remember what it was like if you didn't go away in the Wakes Weeks?
Accrington was absolutely dead, all the shops shut, all businesses closed, nobody about.
I'm not sure if even the buses stopped running.
You really felt left out of it at home those weeks.
But Dad always tipped a bucket full of sand in the back yard for me to play in.

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Remember it well. One year we didnt go nowhere so Tony Boardman and Malcolm Taylor and me Biked to Lythan St Annes for the day. Cant believe that we did it. Played in the sand dune,s and hiding and singing Cliff Richards, A Voice in the Wilderness. Biking back and stopped in Preston to knock on a door to ask for a drink of water. We were only kids and Accy was still dead when we got back.

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In 1965 I had booked an holiday in October that year, I started at Shopfitters about 3 weeks before the Wakes Weeks, when Shopfitters closed for the fortnight, so they honored my holiday commitments and I went in doing factory maintenance for the fortnight. It was very eerie walking up Union Road to work, it was like a ghost town with only the old person collecting their newspaper from a lad on the Town Hall steps