Merthyr Imp 729 Posted June 2, 2015 Report Share Posted June 2, 2015 #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. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted June 2, 2015 Report Share Posted June 2, 2015 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. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted June 2, 2015 Report Share Posted June 2, 2015 Don't forget Cleethorpes - or did Nottingham people not go there so much? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted June 2, 2015 Report Share Posted June 2, 2015 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. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted June 2, 2015 Report Share Posted June 2, 2015 You could get to Mablethoroe by rail at one time too. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted June 2, 2015 Report Share Posted June 2, 2015 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! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAVIDW 1,683 Posted June 2, 2015 Report Share Posted June 2, 2015 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 ? 7 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
banjo48 928 Posted June 3, 2015 Report Share Posted June 3, 2015 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. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,158 Posted June 3, 2015 Report Share Posted June 3, 2015 Nice pics. David,........love the collar and Ties,even on holidays,oh yes and double breasted suits,brilliant. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted June 3, 2015 Report Share Posted June 3, 2015 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! 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted June 3, 2015 Report Share Posted June 3, 2015 Train carriage, no lights, bird in tow ? & you complain Chulla ! 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,464 Posted June 3, 2015 Report Share Posted June 3, 2015 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. Â 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,158 Posted June 3, 2015 Report Share Posted June 3, 2015 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.,!!! 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,158 Posted June 3, 2015 Report Share Posted June 3, 2015 #32 David,................I must add,the Ladys looked 'stunning'..........touch of the 'Roaring 20's' 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted June 3, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2015 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 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted June 3, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2015 Just dug this one out of the box. Holidays 1953 style. Somewhere on the east coast: 8 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted June 3, 2015 Report Share Posted June 3, 2015 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. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted June 3, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2015 Note the meat safe beneath the van. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted June 3, 2015 Report Share Posted June 3, 2015 #36. There were others steaming away in the carriage compartment. I doubt any of us felt very amorous. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Robbie 39 Posted June 4, 2015 Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 I thought this old poster I have seemed appropriate for this thread 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted June 4, 2015 Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 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. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,507 Posted June 4, 2015 Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 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. 16 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,507 Posted June 4, 2015 Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 My Dad with his Mum, big brother and aunt on the beach in 1923. Location unknown 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,464 Posted June 4, 2015 Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 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. 12 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted June 4, 2015 Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 Everybody's paths must have crossed down that road, and Lumley Rd. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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