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every year, 60,s and early 70;s valley farm, clacton caravan site, except for 1973..... that was butlins in clacton. 1968 was leysdown on the isle of sheppey, then it sounded posh, but its essex.... worse beach ever, quick sand more like. always 2 weeks of sunshine though.
first time abroad was portugal, but 33 and a couple of kids then...
Dads always had discussions about the route down, how long it took, where the traffic jams were and how many times they broke down! It was a real adventure even before we left, check the oil, water, tyres, top up the battery, take spare fan belt, distilled water and goodness knows how many maps and atlases! If you got all the way to Cornwall without breaking down it was a real achievement! Now we just fill up and go!!
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Every year in the 60’s and early 70’s it was Pipers holiday camp in Dymchurch Kent.The 5 of us stayed in a chalet for a week or two every summer.Mainly because my maternal grandad owned a cafe and seafood stall down there so we normally got cheap food. 1972 my old man bought a car and we went to Weymouth and stayed in a caravan.1973 and 74 we ventured to Clacton on the train. My brother and me went back to Dymchurch in September for a weekend for my 60th,as we couldn’t go abroad.Nothing much has changed in 50 years.
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Denmark every year for sure (sometimes twice, summer and christmas) on the boat from Harwich to Esbjerg. And occasional cottage rentals in Devon or Cornwall. One disastrous fixed caravan in southern France somewhere.
Dads always had discussions about the route down, how long it took, where the traffic jams were and how many times they broke down! It was a real adventure even before we left, check the oil, water, tyres, top up the battery, take spare fan belt, distilled water and goodness knows how many maps and atlases! If you got all the way to Cornwall without breaking down it was a real achievement! Now we just fill up and go!!
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Sounds like most trips I did in the 80's in some right jalopies.
Dads always had discussions about the route down, how long it took, where the traffic jams were and how many times they broke down! It was a real adventure even before we left, check the oil, water, tyres, top up the battery, take spare fan belt, distilled water and goodness knows how many maps and atlases! If you got all the way to Cornwall without breaking down it was a real achievement! Now we just fill up and go!!
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As I mentioned above,my dad bought an old banger in order to drive to Weymouth.It was the most he’d ever paid for a car at £100.We got to Basingstoke before something went wrong.Luckily there was an AA van sitting in the garage where we stopped.He came over and asked if anything was wrong and also if my dad was a member.He said he was going to join soon,so the bloke has a look and says the steering column was about to fall apart,and it needed immediate repair.He fixed it up for us so we could continue our journey. My dad threatened the bloke that he bought the car from and got £50 back when we got back home.
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Child hood holidays. on 21:13 - Feb 13 by paulparker
It varied for us , one of my nans had a chalet on the isle of sheppy so we we would go there Or my other nan would take us to pontins or Warner’s in the isle of white, Bognor, or camber sands I remember doing the soccer classes with Brian greenoff & Trevor cherry & watching the wrestling in the main hall We were lucky as kids as my mum and dad would also take us to Spain Happy care free days
What were Brian Greenhough and Trevor Cherry actually at that camp ?
Kerry or Kilkenny. Sometimes both. If we went away. Apart from 1977. Freddie Laker to New York with Mum ( I was seven) to visit the cousins and aunts and uncles.
Going to Ireland was brilliant/crap/boring/superb/drunken.
Tv didn’t come on till 6pm and then the bloody Angelus. If you didn’t go to church on Sunday, every bastard in the village knew. But the service lasted barely thirty minutes and it was then a mad dash to the pub.
Six weeks of horizontal rain. But playing outdoors all bloody day.
Bloody wonderful days that I would live all over again.
Mum and dad are my heroes.
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Kerry or Kilkenny. Sometimes both. If we went away. Apart from 1977. Freddie Laker to New York with Mum ( I was seven) to visit the cousins and aunts and uncles.
Going to Ireland was brilliant/crap/boring/superb/drunken.
Tv didn’t come on till 6pm and then the bloody Angelus. If you didn’t go to church on Sunday, every bastard in the village knew. But the service lasted barely thirty minutes and it was then a mad dash to the pub.
Six weeks of horizontal rain. But playing outdoors all bloody day.
Bloody wonderful days that I would live all over again.
I went to Pevensey Bay near Eastbourne We got the coach from Victoria then the train to Pevensey We stayed in a little cottage right on the beach. The beach was very pebbly Had a good time with trips to the Pevensey Bay hotel I’ve no idea what it is like now I will need to check on Google Earth Must have gone their 4 times till my father died
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Child hood holidays. on 21:32 - Feb 13 by BrixtonR
Nice one 68!
Every year Minnis Bay, did a few others as wel UK trips well Lincolnshire and Wales, fair play to my Dad.
Also went to Pevensey bay (stones bleaugh) to see my posh scary Auntie Bowman who lived in West Ham (near there), I was totally gutted that I didn't see the ground.
1978 I was massively QPR but with no history, but after I'd seen the Theatre of Football and real fans at New Cross and then cos i had a QPR badge on my shirt I found out that my Uncles sister was married to George Goddard and my uncles Dad was George Bowman who apperently QPR manager in the war...........
Holiday Celebrate..We Are QPR
Interesting Brix, find myself wanting to read more, a little clearer or er, when you're sober
Weymouth every year and various great days out from there. One year we went to Llandudno for 2 x weeks and it rained every day. So the following year back to Weymouth. V. Happy days.
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Tough back then, probably was in comparison to much of our lives today. Holidays, hmm, when we were real young, I recall Pagham and Leysdown, also a few day outs to places in Kent, Margate was one, god knows where else but, we did go over to Ireland, for a strange mixture of unusual (cow shit, haystacks, rural stuff) and deadly boring evenings. Always remember lowering the window of the train door as we came back into London, breathing in the pollution and shouting, HOME!
Tough back then, probably was in comparison to much of our lives today. Holidays, hmm, when we were real young, I recall Pagham and Leysdown, also a few day outs to places in Kent, Margate was one, god knows where else but, we did go over to Ireland, for a strange mixture of unusual (cow shit, haystacks, rural stuff) and deadly boring evenings. Always remember lowering the window of the train door as we came back into London, breathing in the pollution and shouting, HOME!
Isle of Man, every year on a farm outside Ballasalla (the steam train crossed the farm lane) and it was close enough to my aunts' home at Scarlett.
Common theme here is that most of us went to the same place year after year - does anyone still do that with their kids? The idea now seems to be that you go somewhere different each year, but as a kid I'd have been heartbroken if I didn't see the same places every summer.
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Child hood holidays. on 00:55 - Feb 14 by CiderwithRsie
Isle of Man, every year on a farm outside Ballasalla (the steam train crossed the farm lane) and it was close enough to my aunts' home at Scarlett.
Common theme here is that most of us went to the same place year after year - does anyone still do that with their kids? The idea now seems to be that you go somewhere different each year, but as a kid I'd have been heartbroken if I didn't see the same places every summer.
good point cider. took the kids to clacton latter part of the 80's, then cornwall early 90's, then from '93, abroad.
Child hood holidays. on 23:34 - Feb 13 by onlyrinmoray
I went to Pevensey Bay near Eastbourne We got the coach from Victoria then the train to Pevensey We stayed in a little cottage right on the beach. The beach was very pebbly Had a good time with trips to the Pevensey Bay hotel I’ve no idea what it is like now I will need to check on Google Earth Must have gone their 4 times till my father died
My old man lives in Pevensey Bay. I doubt it's changed very much since you were last there orim. Not really much scope for change as it's such a small place. I love going there though as he lives a 5 minute walk from the beach and it's just a generally chilled and peaceful place. What's not to like.
Never had any money so it was always cheap and cheerful and always the same place. The holiday I most remember was '76 and for no other reason than the parched grass in the square outside the hotel.
Festive holidays would be spent at the grandparents, so either Kingsbury or Mill Hill East.
Fortunately, I've spread my wings considerably since my childhood days!
Mablethorpe on the Lincolnshire coast for several summers, and sometimes in the autumn. I’ve been itching to go back and see what’s happened to the place for a few years now, but never managed it.
Unlike a lot of second generation Irish who were regularly dispatched to the old country for the summer holidays,I only visited twice (Cos Clare and Tipperary). I couldn’t get my head round red lemonade. In fact, I never have!
Again, just not managed to get back to the places my parents were born either.
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