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Summer Seaside Trips...
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Frances | Report | 7 Sep 2009 19:05 |
Hi Maddiecow, |
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MayBlossomEmpressofSpring | Report | 7 Sep 2009 18:57 |
The first and only seaside holiday I had as a child was when I was ten, the last year of WW11. My Dad drew out his National Savings Certificates and took Mum, my younger brother and I together with a friend of theirs whose husband was in the Army, to Southport for a week full board in a guest house |
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Maddiecow | Report | 7 Sep 2009 18:28 |
We used to go to Margate, I am sure the place was called the Bryn Marie or something and used to have a pass into Dreamland, I ... I've heard its since gone .....there used to be a house not far from the beach with a christmas tree and lights in the window all year round - I was told as a small child Santa Lived there ....anyone know if its still there? |
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****MO***Rocking***Granny**** | Report | 7 Sep 2009 18:20 |
My Dad did the same with his railway passes. |
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₪ TeresaW elite empress of deleted threads | Report | 7 Sep 2009 18:13 |
I think all our memories of past summers are selective Fiona. If summers really were long, sunny and hot, the saying 'saving for a rainy day' would never have come about lol |
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Fiona aka Ruby | Report | 7 Sep 2009 18:11 |
A lot of our old holiday photos show us wrapped up in hats, coats, gloves, etc., or peering out from under umbrellas. Which is very odd, as I remember the summer holidays being hot & sunny from start to finish:)) |
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Grabagran | Report | 7 Sep 2009 17:53 |
Somerset. Dawlish, Weston, Torquay, Brighton to mention a few. |
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₪ TeresaW elite empress of deleted threads | Report | 7 Sep 2009 17:09 |
Gwyn, I know what you mean about missing the Isle of Wight. |
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Debbie K | Report | 7 Sep 2009 17:04 |
When I was a child (not that many years ago lol) |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 7 Sep 2009 16:55 |
I lived near Portsmouth and we used to go to Southsea beach, - mostly pebbles. Across the water was the Isle of Wight and for years if I visited any other beach, it felt as though something was missing, without that view. Ocean liners used to pass on their way to and from Southampton and naval boats were frequently in and out of harbour, so you had to watch out for the 'wash' of fast water which could drench the picnics of the unwary, if too close to the shoreline. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 7 Sep 2009 16:37 |
TW me, I had a knitted cossie, and boy did it stretch, only wore it once, when I came out of the sea in Bournemouth it was down to my knees, I was five or six and not impressed!! |
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StrayKitten | Report | 7 Sep 2009 16:35 |
joy didnt even see the snake!!! it was a snake, and it wasnt seaweed!!!! im telling yas lol |
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****MO***Rocking***Granny**** | Report | 7 Sep 2009 16:23 |
I have piccies of me in my little rouched cossie taken at Herne Bay,Littlehampton and Bognor. |
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Merlin | Report | 7 Sep 2009 15:44 |
I gather you looked quite "Petite" in yours then.**M**.:o)>.pmsl. |
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₪ TeresaW elite empress of deleted threads | Report | 7 Sep 2009 15:28 |
So who owned one of those knitted cossies then? You know the ones, they absorbed the entire English Channel as soon as a wave hit you. |
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Merlin | Report | 7 Sep 2009 15:09 |
Turning Right out of the front gate, couple of hundred yards walk,down the cliff path and on to the beach,lived in Penrhyn Bay at the time,Close to The little Orm.if anyone knows it .Pendorlan Rd. the house name Bethany.**M**. |
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₪ TeresaW elite empress of deleted threads | Report | 7 Sep 2009 14:46 |
On holiday in Lydstep Bay, near Tenby, my son, who was 2 then, collected shells from the beach. One of them was still live but we didn't know it then. |
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JoyBoroAngel | Report | 7 Sep 2009 14:22 |
STARY |
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GlitterBaby | Report | 7 Sep 2009 13:49 |
Used to go by train to Littlehampton for day trips. |
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StrayKitten | Report | 7 Sep 2009 13:24 |
posted twice |
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