Room with a view

[Nemesis]

I can date the visit to Blackpool by the fact that I have a photo of myself taken in one of the first automatic photo booths.--- 1953. --I look like a parcel, all wrapped up in my gabardine ! OMG. I think we stayed at a place called 'Nelly's'. It was on the front and it was so windy that the carpets were billowing up and down in the bedroom.

[Yorkie]

I can date my being there as it was the year I joined up and was doing almost a year Trade Training as an Armourer. 1955, seems all so long ago now.  Have we got a thread called Nostalgia?   

[hollins]

Nemesis, Are we not going to see that lovely photo of you in your gabardine? I remember them well.
DaveR, you have stirred up some good memories for people about Blackpool. I have some lovely ones too. My mum's aunt and uncle used to take us for a week to a boarding house every year. My mum's memories are not quite so rosy as mine as one year my brother and I got chicken pox when we were there and she had to stay in the room all the time with us.
First photo is me not sitting very delicately on the beach. While I was looking for this photo I found the second one of me with my Welsh doll. Now I know why I ended up living in Wales!

[Nemesis]

Here we go Hollins--- it took a bit of finding, but it has prompted me to have a clear out of lots of old views etc !
Sorry it isn't very clear. It's an age thing !

[hollins]

A really great souvenir, so cute. Isn't it funny how you can remember certain clothing items. I can remember clearly having to try and get the thick belt through the buckle of my gabardine!

[Nemesis]

Nowadays people would cringe, but when I started High School I was bought a Robert Hirst gabardine which had to 'do' till I left after the 5th form. It had a purse, fastened in the pocket and was worn throughout the winter. We had striped blazers in summer.I must have been buried in it to begin with and it must have been hellish short at the end. Everyone was the same though, it all had to last and uniform had to be worn and it had to be exactly the correct type and make. The shapes we contorted our berets into were unbelievable!

[hollins]

Oh yes, berets! I can remember getting into trouble more than once for not wearing it. Ours were red!

[hollins]

Ha! Found one of my gabardine. I knew I had one somewhere.

[Nemesis]

Golly--- you haven't changed alot !! Lovely pic.

[snowcap]

I don't think either of you have changed a lot, maybe a bit taller.

[Michael]

   Oh so Yorkie was doing 12 months trade training at RAF Kirkham.  He was following me around. I did nine months trade training (Driver/Mechanic) at Weeton, around five or six miles away.
  Only thing was ---- I was there around five years earlier.     Mike

[Nemesis]

I don't think either of you have changed a lot, maybe a bit taller.

and in my case wider

[hollins]

Thanks snowcap. It was a nice gentlemanly thing to say to ladies of a certain age.
However I do not think I need to worry about being recognised in Llandudno from the photos!

[Nemesis]

No-- me neither-- I don't have a bow on top of my head now !

[Yorkie]

   Oh so Yorkie was doing 12 months trade training at RAF Kirkham.  He was following me around. I did nine months trade training (Driver/Mechanic) at Weeton, around five or six miles away.
  Only thing was ---- I was there around five years earlier.     Mike

I bet we both frequented the same places, especially at week-ends.   Under B'pool pier was certainly more entertaining than under Sahfend Pier!!   Yates's Wine Lodge was also another favourite when we took a trip into Preston.   No car then so it was thumbing, or the bus.  And what better than to be stationed close to such a resort!   My posting after that was North Devon at RAF Chivenor where I served the balance of the 3 years, and another resort of Ilfracombe and the market town of Barnstable.    Barnstable had 52 pubs, one for every week of the year!  Memories, Ah!