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[SKYMAN]

If your not old enough you may have heard your parents.
where we went ,,what we did, what we wore, what music,
did i ever see you in the lingholme spa,on the grass banking
on the east lancs, in the park, which youth club,which dance hall.
what pub,what did you smoke
please try to keep to the period to avoid clashing with other threads,

Edited by SKYMAN, 07 February 2012 - 05:29 PM.

[jeb]

IT seems like my time you are on about my wife and Idid our courting in the area mentioned. she lived in the
LINGHOME area

[HORT]

I was born in 1949 so I can only remember the Lingholme Spa through thr eyes of a young child. I use to be taken there by my grandad on a Sunday and I remember the ice cream they sold and the wooden floors.

[Olliebeak]

Mum was born in 1930 and was 9yrs old when the war started. She was 15 when it ended and by then any formal education that she'd received was well and truly over and done with.

She used to go to a Youth Club Dances at Sacred Heart and Holy Cross, as well as the one at St.Vincent's - even though she lived in Derbyshire Hill. Her first 'grown-up dance' was at Co-op Ballroom, which she thought was 'dead posh'!

The place for a day out was always Carr Mill Dam - but not as I remember it. She doesn't remember any signs of a fairgroud when she was in her teens - it was just rowing boats on the lake, walks around the lake, picnics at Happy Valley and paddling in the 'overflow steps' and the little stream in Fairy Glen.

The family started to have annual holidays when the war ended and used to go to Robin Hood Camp in Rhyl each year. But they couldn't take all the kids every year as there were 8 of them. So each year, one of the older girls would have to stay at home to look after whichever of the younger boys couldn't go on the holiday - imagine telling today's teens to stay behind while the rest of the family went on holiday ! Even to this day, she absolutely loves Rhyl and still goes evey year.

One of her first jobs at 14 was in a Bakery Shop - she doesn't remember which one - but her mum made her stop working there. When her mum found out how much she was earning, she was disgusted that a young girl should earn so much money and thought it couldn't possibly be a place for a decent Catholic girl to be ! Not long after that, she got a job in 'the Bobby's Room' at UGB and stayed there for years, until just before I was born in 1951.

Edited by Olliebeak, 08 February 2012 - 12:14 AM.

[Alan]

Ah Robin Hood camp, Rhyl and the Lyons one next door. I still have photos taken there

[leschip]

What about the camp over the blue bridge, "Happy Days"
Through the 50's & early 60's my Aunt Ethel & Uncle Frank had a chalet at Bastion Rd site in Prestatyn. No teenagers were allowed to occupy a caravan or chalet, just what did Skyman and others get up to? At that time I was a mere child

Edited by leschip, 08 February 2012 - 11:48 AM.

[gilly]

I have had caravans on Robin Hood but got rid when Lyons bought them out and started making stupd changes to the rules and breaking promises.

[woodsman]

Skyman, you made me chukle when you mentioned the grass bank on the east lancs. Two quick memories pop up, when it snowed, going down the slope by the bridge near the cemetery hangin onto the lid of the old washing machine/boiler. The second was a fine summer evening tucked up along from the same bridge heading towards the roundabout there used top be dip between a hedge and the cemetery wall, god bless her, the joys of youth!!!!!!!! Would be about 1958/9

[Alan]

That was you and your bird who pinched our special spot eh?

[Olliebeak]

I've just got the one thing to say about the banks of the East Lancs Road - they weren't just used in the 40's/50's .............. and that is my final word on the subject

Edited by Olliebeak, 08 February 2012 - 02:59 PM.

[woodsman]

Its one of those really nice memories from the past and looking back it was, in a way, so innocent. I think you will agree Alan it was a really nice spot, I smile every time I drive past it.

[leschip]

That's right Ollie, fire a missile and forget about it. SPILL

[woodsman]

Not the only one smiling then Ollie!!!!!!!!

[SKYMAN]

some great memory jerkers there keep them coming,
i would like it if this thread could reunite some of us
civilian war vets,ollie i reckon your mum was blowing her first candle out when i was born,
At carr mill on sunday afternoons it was crowded,used to get a few pavement show men
there,one bloke tied in chains he would have been there yet if his mate hadnt set him free,
then the bloke who lay on the floor with a 2*2 paving on his chest while his mate broke it with a 14 pound hammer,
the grass bank on the east lancs was a great place for pulling the birds,if you got lucky you would arrange
to meet them ( inside the cinema ) on the night,,,

[Olliebeak]

Oh the memories .

He could be on here in disguise .

A real lady never kisses and tells

Edited by Olliebeak, 09 February 2012 - 08:38 AM.