MelissaJKelly 2,120 Posted June 6, 2015 Report Share Posted June 6, 2015 I'd have guessed the same Fly2 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted June 6, 2015 Report Share Posted June 6, 2015 The peroxide Blonde. Can you imagine that gang plus 2 in a fourberth caravan 2yrs later. That pic was taken the day after we met. Chris is standing by me smoking his Parky. Benjamin, the other photo I have of them isn't as clear, but same pose, and he had his tie on in that one. 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted June 6, 2015 Report Share Posted June 6, 2015 carnie, you aint aged a day midduck ! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted June 6, 2015 Report Share Posted June 6, 2015 You're a bleddy woffler caftan !!!!!! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,599 Posted June 6, 2015 Report Share Posted June 6, 2015 Here's 2 photos from an album my brother has. The black car was a Standard 12 and this was about 1948. My dad worked for the Ministry of Food so had a car for his work [and for taking us on our annual holidays to Chapel St Leonards!] Our 'caravan' was on a small site on Sea Road, just opposite the Grange Hotel, and was an old railway carriage with 3 'rooms' 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,599 Posted June 6, 2015 Report Share Posted June 6, 2015 Here is the second photo ....I hope 7 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sue B 48 1,226 Posted June 6, 2015 Report Share Posted June 6, 2015 #71 Am I there carni, if not why. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted June 6, 2015 Report Share Posted June 6, 2015 I have just phoned you with the same question? lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted June 6, 2015 Report Share Posted June 6, 2015 Re #71. I've just had a conflab with sueB48 about the date of the photo on #71 it is 1966 not 64. That's why yer wont on it Miduck Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted June 6, 2015 Report Share Posted June 6, 2015 Here we are on the beach at Sutton On Sea. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted June 7, 2015 Report Share Posted June 7, 2015 Here's a photo of us inside the caravan. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted June 7, 2015 Report Share Posted June 7, 2015 #47 bottom. Lizzie, your dad was a pipe-smoker - yes? Must have been a good bloke if so. To me he has a little of the Gallic look about him. Any French blood in the family genes? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,090 Posted June 7, 2015 Report Share Posted June 7, 2015 Funny that, I looked at the photo and thought, he looks Italian. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted June 7, 2015 Report Share Posted June 7, 2015 #88. Alphonse, Antonio, cheese, spaghetti, what's the difference. lol 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,507 Posted June 7, 2015 Report Share Posted June 7, 2015 Strange you should make that comment as I showed a friend the photos the other day and she said he looked Italian. But no,he was a Lenton chap of pure English stock. Also a pipe smoker, mostly on holiday. The rest of the time he puffed away on Park Drive untipped. Amazingly he was a very fit man in his younger days, playing semi-professional football and cricket. I miss him a lot, he only passed away 2 years ago, aged 91. 7 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted June 7, 2015 Report Share Posted June 7, 2015 I can tell from your previous posts you loved and missed him Lizzie. That's great to feel like that. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,139 Posted June 7, 2015 Report Share Posted June 7, 2015 Always fascinated me how many people look a different nationality,with the world being a 'melting pot' nowadays,its understandable,but back in our school days prob.50s there was still that percentage that had a foreign look,must be something in all our ancestery that caused it,don't you think? I remember one day at school a Teacher got all those with Blue eyes and fair hair to stand up,and she then simplified the whole question,we who stood up were descended from the Saxons/Vikings,all the rest were'nt,and were probably Catholic,lol. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,580 Posted June 7, 2015 Report Share Posted June 7, 2015 She didn't wear a black uniform with lightening flashes on the collar did she? lol Rog 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Braddy 160 Posted June 7, 2015 Report Share Posted June 7, 2015 Dirty vikings Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted June 7, 2015 Report Share Posted June 7, 2015 Re #92 - my dad used to have a book in which there were a number of poems giving generalised summaries of various foreign nationals. Highly racist and inflammatory today, no doubt. Here are a couple, from memory : "Swedes do not (as some suppose) dress only in beads; A recent traveller to Stockholm brought frock home." "Egyptians are (as it were) of all descriptions. Some are prepared to be chummy. Others cling to mummy." "In Tibet, they are not quite civilised yet. Very few lamas wear monogrammed pyjamas." 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,139 Posted June 8, 2015 Report Share Posted June 8, 2015 Dirty vikings Good film though Braddy !!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted June 8, 2015 Report Share Posted June 8, 2015 Slightly adrift of the subject; sometime in the early 1950s we were in a caravan at Ingoldmells. I cannot remember anything at all about the time there except for one incident. We sat outside on the grass and next to us was another party which included a couple of young women. One said to the other 'where shall we go tonight?' The other replied 'shall we go to the pictures?' 'What's on?' said the first. 'James Mason in The Upturned Glass' was the reply from the other after looking in a newspaper. This little conversation is all I can remember of that holiday. I never forgot the name of that film, and over the years always looked out for it on TV, but never saw it. Fast-forward to this week, and a search on YouTube found it, and last night we sat and watched it. Was it worth waiting for? Yes, it was quite good, but there again James Mason, Britain's finest film actor, is always worth watching. Oh to have his wonderfully mellifluous voice. If I had I would have carni, Lizzie and Hippo Girl swooning at my feet; but they would be too late; Ava Gardner would have beat them to it (Also watched the two of them in Pandora and the Flying Dutchman) . Big sigh!!! Oh well, back to washing the pots. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted June 8, 2015 Report Share Posted June 8, 2015 Dream on Chulla, dream on.! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted June 8, 2015 Report Share Posted June 8, 2015 My earliest memory of the seaside was going to Ingoldmels in 1956 & staying in a caravan, beautiful weather but not much to do. In them days there were very little entertainment, you made your own. What I remember was the "Sunshine Corner" crowd on the beach would round all us kids up & have a sing song etc. Happy days. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,090 Posted June 8, 2015 Report Share Posted June 8, 2015 Chulla, was I at the caravan with you? plus Grandma Whitlam and mam? If so, I remember something from that trip, the beach donkeys got out one night and raided the caravan site and ate the veg stored underneath folks' caravans. Also remember sirens, and someone saying there'd been a crash down the road. Funny the things that stick in your memory. I'd be about 5 I think. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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