Looking at the previous inmates on this thread I think they forgot to tell them the war was over
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Looking at the previous inmates on this thread I think they forgot to tell them the war was over
also went to middleton towers would be 64/65 not certain of the year, but it was the year Drew got killed under railway bridge on blackburn rd, can remember the report on the telly on the camp.
met a cracking bird from huddersfield, had a great time, happy days.
met a cracking bird from huddersfield, had a great time, happy days.
i never went to holiday camps .. i went to ireland instead ... first time i went to one i was 17 and on the YTS .. we all got sent on a 'work as a team' holiday mon - fri ..in February .. ended up at pwhelli butlins ..
Pontins bought it later - originally it was owned by a japanese chap. I remember there was a large photo of him in reception. I had never seen a jap before so it sticks in my mind.
proof here -
http://www.butlinsmemories.com/pontins/middletontower2002/index.htm
also went to middleton towers would be 64/65 not certain of the year, but it was the year Drew got killed under railway bridge on blackburn rd, can remember the report on the telly on the camp.
I think I'm right in saying that Middleton Towers was designed by a German bloke in the mid-50's; the same bloke who designed Auschwitz in the early 1940's. The aerial view certainly looks very similar.
Just out of interest, Cashy, do you remember the colour of the lampshades in your hut? Yellow/Pink by any chance?
no sodding idea T. wasn't my hut.
Oh what fun we had walking over the tops to Heysham Harbour.drinking Nettle beer - riding on the Boat Swing and catching crabs in the lower regions of the harbour.
I must be getting old.
Catching crabs, eh
Catching crabs, eh
On reflection I think that was Tenby the year of the Great Train Robbery.
That's my alibi sorted.
Catching crabs in Heysham Harbour Beni, you could catch them in Accy on a Saturday night if you weren't carefulOh what fun we had walking over the tops to Heysham Harbour.drinking Nettle beer - riding on the Boat Swing and catching crabs in the lower regions of the harbour.
I must be getting old.
