Summer Holidays and Photos

[Merthyr Imp 729]

#7 - Our caravan (in Chapel St. Leonards) was rather less modern:

This must have been some time around the mid-1950s. The caravan had solid-tyred wheels which had partly sunk into the ground. I think the car must have been borrowed.

[NewBasfordlad 3,599]

I reckon 90% of us must have bumped into each other sometime back then. After all it was the same time and the same place, in the 50s/60s there were more Nottingham folk in Skeggy than locals in the season. I could almost guarantee to see some mates if I went to the open air roller skating rink on the front.

[Merthyr Imp 729]

Don't forget Cleethorpes - or did Nottingham people not go there so much?

[NewBasfordlad 3,599]

As I remember and I could be wrong it was usually Skeggy or Mablethorpe.

Skeggy was very easy to get to as they ran special buses and trains and of course Mablethorpe was just up the road past Butlins.

[Bubblewrap 3,815]

You could get to Mablethoroe by rail at one time too.

[carni 10,094]

Your gran looks a lot like my great aunt Ada who was also a spiritualist medium from Mansfield........the family were all scared of her....same era too..........

Funny that is, Because my Grandma was as well. Would that explain the picture behind the curtain in the hall, of a Red Indian, in his headdress and all the gear. I used to hate walking past that curtain. Seems there was a lot of it about then!

[DAVIDW 1,683]

My mum 2nd from the left in the stripey hat.....looks a proper "flapper" ! Though I would say this was early 1930s .She had family that lived in Skeg and the others are probably cousins .

My big brother and me . Sure this would have been at Skeg. 1952 ?

[banjo48 928]

I think we all went to Skeg or Mablethore during our childhood era, on public transport, then as we became more mobile with cars or scooters, motorbikes etc. we ventured further afield.

Cleethorpes was and still is a favorite place I still visit when back there. Fish and chips for lunch then a slow run back calling at a pub somewhere for tea and a pint, what a way to spend a summer or spring day.

[benjamin1945 16,154]

Nice pics. David,........love the collar and Ties,even on holidays,oh yes and double breasted suits,brilliant.

[Chulla 4,946]

In 1965, the then girlfriend and I, went to Skeggy for a day. Caught the train from Victoria. It chucked in down all day, and we spent most of the time dodging into and out of amusement arcades trying to keep dry. On the train back we were a couple of very damp people - her hair hanging down like wet straw. To top it all, the carriage lights did not come one and we sat in darkness for most of the journey back. I vowed there and then that I would never go to Skegness again, and I never have. Give me California, Arizona and Nevada any day!

[catfan 14,793]

Train carriage, no lights, bird in tow ? & you complain Chulla !

[Cliff Ton 10,464]

Skegness clock in the background. My mum's grandmother in the centre; my mum's mother on the right, and my mum's aunt on the left. Probably around the late 1940s.

 

[benjamin1945 16,154]

Train carriage, no lights, bird in tow ? & you complain Chulla !

Well said 'catfan' with 'Crumpet' like Cliff tons family,who needs California,Arizona and Nevada.,!!!

[benjamin1945 16,154]

#32 David,................I must add,the Ladys looked 'stunning'..........touch of the 'Roaring 20's'

[Compo 10,328]

I have a photo of my family in a caravan, probably at Chapel St Leonards but for the life of me I can't find it! for now this will have to do. The roundabouts at Skegness circa 1956

[Compo 10,328]

Just dug this one out of the box. Holidays 1953 style. Somewhere on the east coast:

[FLY2 10,108]

Great days, That was when there were very few proprietary vans, but loads made from old ex MoD ambulance bodies, home made and cut down bus bodies.

[Compo 10,328]

Note the meat safe beneath the van.

[Chulla 4,946]

#36. There were others steaming away in the carriage compartment. I doubt any of us felt very amorous.

[Robbie 39]

I thought this old poster I have seemed appropriate for this thread

[StephenFord 866]

Re #42 - my granddad had a converted railway carriage body on a field site at Whatstandwell - from what I can remember, I think it was an ex-Midland railway clerestory, which seemed prehistoric even then - about 1953.

Our Summer holidays were a bit farther afield - courtesy of my dad's railway passes. Cornwall, Devon and Dorset were favourites. As for accommodation we always stayed in what were called apartments (or "rooms with attendance" - which basically meant that you bought your own food, and the landlady cooked and prepared it for you. It was the cheapest non-self-catering option.

Yes, I remember the roving photographers - I have one of the family with my granddad (wearing a bow tie!) at the time he lived in a caravan behind a guest house on Skegness South Parade.

[LizzieM 9,507]

Me with my Mum and Dad. Same place, Mablethorpe, obviously different years ...... 1951 and 1954. Essential bucket and spade plus the Brownie Box Camera going on the beach too. There must have been a bit of a coach station down that road.

[LizzieM 9,507]

My Dad with his Mum, big brother and aunt on the beach in 1923. Location unknown

[Cliff Ton 10,464]

There's a long-running theory that everyone on Nottstalgia has met everyone else somewhere in the past. Look at LizzieM's two photos at #47, and then look at the location here. Same place, a few years apart. Me, my sister, mum and dad.

[FLY2 10,108]

Everybody's paths must have crossed down that road, and Lumley Rd.