BilboroughShirley 1,120 Posted June 19, 2015 Report Share Posted June 19, 2015 #149 and #150 Cliff Ton and Merthyr Imp, many thanks for the great photos. Happy memories! Wonderful! I loved those little cars then and I still love driving now. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mickyp 23 Posted June 22, 2015 Report Share Posted June 22, 2015 Does anyone remember a double-decker bus at Ingoldmells in the 60s where you could buy takeaway fish and chips downstairs or sit and eat them at a table upstairs? I think it may have been on a caravan site on Sea Lane? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,326 Posted June 23, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2015 I remember the WWII DKW landing craft that was used to take holiday makers along the beach. Now then, was that at Skeggy or was it Yarmouth? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,535 Posted June 23, 2015 Report Share Posted June 23, 2015 Compo,they got something similar to the DKW at Hunstanton,they call them "Washmonster" I've pictures of them so will upload them when I get time Rog 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted June 23, 2015 Report Share Posted June 23, 2015 The "Wash Monster & Sea Lion" ! Been on em both ! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted June 23, 2015 Report Share Posted June 23, 2015 The DUKWs (or Ducks) have been mentioned on another thread somewhere. I seem to remember one being used at Mablethorpe. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted June 23, 2015 Report Share Posted June 23, 2015 A couple of DUKW photos here http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=8978&hl Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tomlinson 879 Posted June 23, 2015 Report Share Posted June 23, 2015 One thing I used to hate as a kid during holidays to New Brighton was being dragged off to sit in a deckchair in the park with snoozing adults listening to a brass band! What sort of holiday was that with a beach and a fun fair waiting! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tomlinson 879 Posted June 24, 2015 Report Share Posted June 24, 2015 On the radio the other day a request was made for seaside sounds anyone may have recorded. Most people have photographs but sounds are rare. My own sound memory is of a beachball being bounced on a concrete pavement and making a sort of 'belt' sound rather than a thud. Any other thoughts? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted June 25, 2015 Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 A common sound is after the waves have rolled up the beach; when they recede there is a loud sweesh sound as the shingle is disturbed. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,594 Posted June 25, 2015 Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 #160 Chulla, your post reminded me of the following poem by Matthew Arnold.. Dover Beach BY MATTHEW ARNOLD The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. Come to the window, sweet is the night-air! Only, from the long line of spray Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land, Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the Ægean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea. The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,326 Posted June 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 Tomlinson: What about the robust "Thunk" of a railway carriage door closing before the guard's whistle and replying "Pop!" from the locomotive whistle; followed by the roar of steam being forced through open cylinder drain-cocks, and then the Rrrrrumph! of the first exhaust blast up the chimney, as the train left the station, bound for the seaside. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted June 25, 2015 Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 #162. Don't forget the clackety-clack of the carriage bogies going over the gaps in the rails. Not heard on straight sections now. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,085 Posted June 25, 2015 Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 #160. When we used to stay at ny m-i-laws on the seafront, even in the dead of winter, no matter how frigid it was, we had the bedroom windows open, to hear the sea on the shingles. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
crankypig 457 Posted June 25, 2015 Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 I still love to hear the sea,and I like a walk along the sea front even in winter. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted June 25, 2015 Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 We stayed at the Two Lifeboats in Sheringham years ago and you could hear the waves, and the rigging of the little dinghy's clattering on the metal masts....... Beautiful !!!!! We also stayed at a pub in Whitstable, the Duke of Cambridge I think. Same noises. It irritated some guests, but not me. Why visit the coast then complain about the local sounds? It's like these numbskulls who move to rural areas then moan about farm smells and cockerels crowing....... Tossers !!!!!!! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BilboroughShirley 1,120 Posted June 25, 2015 Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 I love the sounds made by the sea birds. A good friend and former work colleague is now very elderly and house bound. When we were at Bempton Cliffs RSPB reserve I called her on my mobile and held it so she could hear the sea birds and the waves. Fortunately the phone does not communicate the smell of the Gannnet droppings! 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted June 25, 2015 Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 I used to like the cry of the seagulls - until we lived at the seaside, and watched them nicking folks' cakes, sandwiches, ice cream cornets, fish and chips, Cornish pasties etc. when we concluded that they are really flying rats ! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BilboroughShirley 1,120 Posted June 25, 2015 Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 When we were on holiday in Shetland I was talking to some local people about the long summer days and short nights. One of them said that the short period of darkness did not cause a problem in getting enough sleep except when one of the gulls sat on the roof told a joke and all the rest of them spent hours laughing at it! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,326 Posted June 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 Chulla #163: The track outside my house is still fishplated bullhead rail sitting in 1923 chairs on wooden sleepers. Trains clickety-clack as they pass. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
taxi ray 170 Posted January 25, 2016 Report Share Posted January 25, 2016 Anyone remember this from Skegness? Â Â 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,118 Posted January 25, 2016 Report Share Posted January 25, 2016 You nearly there Ray,..............anyway whats Terry Wogan doing in Skeggy.............lol. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted January 25, 2016 Report Share Posted January 25, 2016 Chulla #163: The track outside my house is still fishplated bullhead rail sitting in 1923 chairs on wooden sleepers. Trains clickety-clack as they pass. Like this Compo ? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
taxi ray 170 Posted January 25, 2016 Report Share Posted January 25, 2016 #172 Wifes granddad, old basford lad. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,118 Posted January 25, 2016 Report Share Posted January 25, 2016 Apart from the wogan remark Ray,he does look familiar and the old fella on the end. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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