Beefsteak 305 Posted March 18, 2013 Report Share Posted March 18, 2013 Anyone recall the name of the cafe that skills buses always stopped at half way to Mablethorpe, I think it was called 'The Adam & Eve'?? I think it's this one, I can't for the life of me remember the name of it, but it's just outside Tattershall, now sadly closed down. Rog (Plantfit) and I pass there regularly on our "Aviation Days" It's still open and called "The Fairways" in this image from 2009 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted March 18, 2013 Report Share Posted March 18, 2013 The old name of the pub was the Prattinton Arms - just by the old Tattershall railway station. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sneintongal 12 Posted March 18, 2013 Report Share Posted March 18, 2013 we always went to mablethorpe as kids and even now,infact alot of the shops still sell the same tat,sorry (nik naks)now as they did in the late 50s and 60s we would get off at the railway station and there used to be youths and men with big hand carts that would take the familys suitcases(and toddlers) on the cart to the caravan parks or B&B,saved alot of lugging about,cases did not have wheels on them like they do now,have lots of photos with all the men sitting on the beach with suits shirt and ties on and on hot days too,best treat was a horlicks in a giant size horlicks mug at the seafront cafe overlooking the sea,mmm lovely,other dull days walking round the arcades looking for pennies left in the machine as we were skint,cannot remember ever finding any,but happy days Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RGR 218 Posted March 18, 2013 Report Share Posted March 18, 2013 Stopped at the old Railway Station at Burgh Le Marsh on the way to Ingoldmells last June.Now private Homes. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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RGR 218 Posted March 18, 2013 Report Share Posted March 18, 2013 Old Station Master House "Burgh Le Marsh".They sell Free Range eggs at the side of the House. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted March 20, 2013 Report Share Posted March 20, 2013 Ignored the sign then? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 Someone I spoke to this week tells me the Quick Draw Cowboy could still be in the corner arcade @Mablethorpe. Anyone confirm this? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beachbum 68 Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 Perhaps I'll mosey on down there today before I meet up for drinks. Hot of the press a new 10 Pin Bowling Alley for Mabo, due to open at Easter Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 Not sure but recall it in 1980's, esp once when someone cheated and already had his gun drawn then proceeded to argue with the cowboy before shooting him, quite comical to see it Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MelissaJKelly 2,121 Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 I'm off to Mablethorpe weather depending sometime in the next two weeks with my nephew. Love it there. Much prefer Mablethorpe to Skegness. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 If I remember as far back as my last holiday there, 1967. The cowboy used to say something like "Aw you got me pardner"? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 Me & Mrs catfan on a trip to Mabo june 28 fer the day ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
piggy and babs 544 Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 if weathers good this year might come down for the bike got drowned last year and parking was crap suposed to go right up other end of town to park even disabled i did not have my schooter last year but i will be using it this year i think its on 27th Quote Link to post Share on other sites
piggy and babs 544 Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 beach bum not seen seaside lady on here in ages have you seen her over the winter i saw her at the end of the season last year quick hello Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beachbum 68 Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 Babs, Saw Sue, aka Seaside Lady last Thursday, shes well and is re-openening at Easter. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beachbum 68 Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 Someone I spoke to this week tells me the Quick Draw Cowboy could still be in the corner arcade @Mablethorpe. Anyone confirm this? Had a walk around the arcades this lunchtime, sad to say no sign of The Quick Draw Cowboy, probably pushing up daisies on Boot Hill Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 Thanks Beachbum Quote Link to post Share on other sites
piggy and babs 544 Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 thanks dave least know she is ok Quote Link to post Share on other sites
piggy and babs 544 Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 that should have read for bike festival in earlier post Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Willow wilson 894 Posted October 30, 2017 Report Share Posted October 30, 2017 Men may come and men may go but Mablethorpe goes on for ever. (Apologies to Alfred L T) All your memories resonate with me too. Remember the little boating lake with hand cranked paddle boats? And the Lyric cinema; saw Calmity Jane there. I can half recall the stations and the ride from Nottingham. Bingham, Bottesford, "look out the window, there's Belvoir Castle, wow!", Grantham, Boston, (where the sharp curve is,) "look, there's Boston stump...now look its this side wow", Sleaford?, Willoughby, Mumby. Somewhere along there was the South 40foot drain, "look, look here, they're herons, wow". In '53 I saw a rowing boat in the middle of a field. Sutton-on-Sea, then a level crossing and finally -'raaay, Madlefort!!. Outside the station were lads with old pram chassis and trolleys and they would take all your luggage to your digs in town for a tanner. The walk to the digs down High Street with.all the shops selling buckets, spades, kites, ice cream, cowboy hats, was magic. Happy memories for me and my younger brother. Mablethorpe, it had its time and its place in the innocent order of things. We've done lots since and been many places but Mablethorpe's special. 9 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,597 Posted October 30, 2017 Report Share Posted October 30, 2017 Nice memories there WW,afraid it's in a sorry state now,unloved and mostly populated be retired folk Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Willow wilson 894 Posted October 30, 2017 Report Share Posted October 30, 2017 If lt's sorry and unloved I'll give it a miss. Memories never go to seed. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted October 30, 2017 Report Share Posted October 30, 2017 My paternal grandparents retired there in a Bungalow a mile or two back from the beach. I always thought it would be great to live there, but we didn't go many times before I left school and did my own thing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,597 Posted October 30, 2017 Report Share Posted October 30, 2017 Don't give it a miss, go and enjoy yourself,get a bag of chips, some doughnuts,ice cream and buy a stick of rock,your memories will still be there just everything else has changed, think of all those memories coming back to you as you walk along the front Rog 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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