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[Alan]

Coming back to Southport, my two abiding memories are 22 years apart. 1945 a flight off the beach in a Tiger Moth biplane at the age of 3 and 1967 winning a small fortune on roulette in Kingsway Casino that paid for my honeymoon.

Anyone else any memories of either of those two attractions?

[brunty]

never flew in one of them planes alan,but i remember winning a few bob one friday in the kingsway on roulette as well
i think it was about 90 quid a lot of money in the 60s,been today its still a shithole,roadworks everywhere,litter.

[Alan]

Is the Kingsway still there?

Out of interest Brunty, you say you go often to Southport and it's a shit hole. Why do you go? There are some great spots within half an hour or so of St Helens

[brunty]

alan,the wife likes the shops we go at 10 30am and at 11 45 we go and have our dinner and we are home for 2pm
its just a ride out thats all,alan st.helens is a shithole also but i pass through most days.
the kingsway has gone alan i am not sure if its a parking ground.

[Alan]

Bruntyed, do you go shopping with the wife? Do you carry the bags? Don't you know that men aren't genetically formed to carry shopping bags? They look silly because bags were designed with female hips in mind; this effectively keeps the bags from catching their legs as they walk and is the reason why men feel so uncomfortable with one

[brunty]

dont carry em alan,she does all that i dont mind carrying em if she dont feel up to it.

[donkey o'tay]

familyman, on Nov 18 2007, 10:08 PM, said:

Quite like taking a trip over to Scarborough.
It hasn't changed very much since I first went there 40 odd years ago.

Have you seen the naval battle in the park? Brilliant.

[Hugh]

Alan the Kinksway building is still there but it is about to be turned into flats like most of the buildings along the Prom, ( Bootle need the rates) it goes like this in Southport, 1 big house rates £2000 a year replace it with 20 flat at £1000 a year= £ 20,000

[Alan]

Cheers Hugh, I suspected as much

[familyman]

donkey o'tay, on Nov 21 2007, 12:15 PM, said:

Have you seen the naval battle in the park? Brilliant.

Yeh I've got some old 8mm film of the battle from the early sixties. When we went over this year we watched the battle again. Still exactly the same show as then

[Alan]

Anyone remember the Noah's Ark in the Pleasure Beach. It and the Roller Coaster were landmarks that we looked out for as soon as we reached the promenade after leaving the Lord Street bus station

[Griffin]

Certainly do. I don't know if you've been in the old bus station recently, but they've retained the facade and it's an entrance to a supermarket. Surreal. Spent hours there waiting for the bus home.

[Hugh]

The bus station
The shops at the front have never been opened since the change from bus station about 7 or 8 years ago, they are now talking about making in to an hotel, but as we have 3 new hotels in the making, I do not think it will happen
PS we do not have a bus station now

Edited by Hugh, 22 November 2007 - 06:00 PM.