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Barbra in those days the driver was enclosed but we had conductors, they always seemed to be happy and good tempered so I wonder in retrospect if they were specially picked for the job. It was much too far to walk, Probably about 10+ miles and up and over Portsdown Hill.

No beach for us, too far. If it doesn't rain tomorrow we might go and walk by the Gloucester to sharpness canal. We have daughter and her partner for the weekend arriving this afternoon and going home Monday, hopefully going out for a meal for my birthday on Sunday.

Who is of this weekend to the Beach :-) or having a day out . :-) ...Ann didn't need a bus to get to my school .walked their & back ..bet you all had a great time annoying the driver ;-) Barbara x ( Allan love the song .) x

:-D didn't sing in the car but we did used to make the school bus echo with our singing, We had two sometimes three double deckers that went to our high school from my home town, journey just over half an hour. It used to be said people could hear our buses coming.

So did the Brownies and Rainbows LOL. I still sing along with the Grandchildren just as I always have with my kids :-D :-D :-D

Thanks LG ..It kept us happy singing along. use to sing along with my children .many years ago they made their own lyrics up xx :-D :-D :-D

You'll never go to heaven in a rocking chair
cos the lord don't want no rockers there

You'll never go to heaven on a plate of glass
cos a plate of glass will cut your LEG
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Dozens more that I used to sing with the Brownie and Rainbow units I ran :-D some quite rude :-0

EDIT loads more on the Campfire sites if you google :-D

This tread was about GR topics moving slowly .well it has turned out interesting .lovely stories about holidays & memories . :-) when I was a little un my Mum & Dad .would put my pram in Dads big black taxi he had one cab. that was his job & we would go to Blackpool for the day & end up staying the whole week .was told by my Gran ,..Did any of you sing in the car going on your holiday or day out ? Oh you will never go to Heaven in an old ford car cause an old ford car wont get that far & so it carried on .any more verses Thanks Barbra :-)

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Didn't we have a lovely time the day we went to Bangor
A beautiful day, we had lunch on the way and all for under a pound you know
But on the way back I cuddled with Jack and we opened a bottle of cider
Singin' a few of our favourite songs as the wheels went around


Do you recall the thrill of it all as we walked along the sea front
Then on the sand we heard a brass band that played the diddlely-bump-terrara
Elsie and me had one cup of tea, then we took a paddler boat out
Splashing away as we sailed down the bay and the wheels went 'round


Didn't we have a lovely time the day we went to Bangor
A beautiful day, we had lunch on the way and all for under a pound you know
But on the way back I cuddled with Jack and we opened a bottle of cider
Singin' a few of our favourite songs as the wheels went around


Wasn't it nice eating chocolate ice as we strolled around the fun-fair
Then we ate eels in a big ferris wheel as we sailed above the ground, but then
We had to be quick 'cause Elsie felt sick and we had to find somewhere to take her
I said to her lad, what made her feel bad was the wheel going 'round


Didn't we have a lovely time the day we went to Bangor
A beautiful day, we had lunch on the way and all for under a pound you know
But on the way back I cuddled with Jack and we opened a bottle of cider
Singin' a few of our favourite songs as the wheels went around


Elsie and me, we finished our tea and said goodbye to the seaside
Then on the bus, Flo said to us, "Oh, isn't it a shame to go
Wouldn't it be grand to have cash on demand and to live like this for always
Oh, it makes me feel ill, when I think of the mill and the wheels going 'round"

Didn't we have a lovely time the day we went to Bangor
A beautiful day, we had lunch on the way and all for under a pound you know
But on the way back I cuddled with Jack and we opened a bottle of cider
Singin' a few of our favourite songs as the wheels went around


Yadda-aah-laddle-aah-aah-dah-laddle-aah-dee-lah-dah-dah-dah-dah


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You are all bringing back some holiday memories now.

Dad usually managed to take us to the seaside for a week, normally Margate or Clacton and two years running we ventured as far as Weymouth. We didn't have a car so the suitcases were taken to the station the day before and sent on ahead. We got the train the next day and picked our suitcases up at the destination station when we arrived. There were usually a number of lads with barrows and they would put the suitcases on their barrow and push them to the boarding house, at 6d a time.

Sylvia, we also used the system where Mum sorted out the food and the landlady cooked it for us. It was called Cooking and Attendance. When I've mentioned it to other friends they never believe me. At best they think my memory is playing tricks on me, so I'm pleased to find someone else who knows about it.

Can someone tell me - why did we always travel in our Sunday best clothes when everyday things would have been much more sensible for sitting on a coach or train?

There are still people to talk to Barbra, good people, supportive, people to make you laugh, people to pass the time of day with so stick with us.

On holidays, it was a different world when I was young, I only went on one holiday and that was just with my Mum, Dad joined us at the weekend. When Dad had a week off work we went out for days, we had a car since 1947. We'd go to Swanage, Bognor, Hayling Island, Bournemouth, driving quite long distances really in our old Austin. Sandwichiches in a chocolate tin, thermos flask, orange squash and, on one occasion a knitted swimsuit!.
Except for Jersey I didn't go abroad until the nineties. We never took our children abroad we couldn't afford it and I was not bothered. Oh had enough of abroad with being in the RN and also travelling a lot with his civilian job. We used to take the children to Cornwall, wales, Butlins, Scotland.

To answer Barbra's first question ..................


there has undoubtedly been a slowing of the Boards, many members have left .......

GR will never be as it once was, I fear


.............. but it is also the summer doldrums!

Beginning in 1947, we went to Scarborough every year for our summer holiday ...... or for day trips if Mum and Dad couldn't afford a week or 2 weeks.The last time I went on one of those family holidays must have been about 1955

It was always during the Wakes holidays, which were the last 2 weeks in June in my home town ......... always cold in the North Sea!! I wore those nylon swim suits in the 50s, and shivered like all get out! :-)

I have photos of Dad sleeping in a deck chair, wearing a rain coat, collar turned up, a 3 piece suit underneath it, and his trilby hat :-D

Joan ........ I well remember that Tea Kiosk!!

We used to stay in boarding houses where Mum provided the food and the lady cooked it ............ so the first thing to do every morning was to go to the covered Market Hall to buy lunch and dinner, and then take it all back to the house.


Mum and her parents had been going to Scarborough from at least the mid-20s, and I have photos of Dad, Mum, my much older brother, her parents and siblings ca 1929 to ca 1935 ........... I left many more of them behind when I moved over here


My very first beach holiday was 1946, in a caravan at Bispham ......... I remember it as being wet and cold (again it would have been the 1st week of Wakes) ............... I have a photo of me paddling wearing a duffle coat, and bare feet.


Dad always had a hat with him and Mum of course always wore one, but whenever we visited a church or cathedral, Dad would tie knots in the 4 corners of his hankie and put it on MY head ........ a "lady" never went into a religious place without her head covered.:-D We seemed to have a trip to a cathedral at least once a year, usually while on holiday .............. Ripon Cathedral, York, etc etc

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I've always been a lazy b**ger...so mine was a "Kiss me slow" hat :-D :-D

Did you get a "Kiss me quick" hat every week Allan?

Loved Blackpool :-D

Use to go there every Friday night when I worked in Local Government.

There was a union sponsored dance held there each week ;-)

The good old days in Blackpool Allan know what will get us moving Bran Flakes ;-) :-) Barbra x

Wouldn't that be on the bland thread anyway Allan? :-D

Barbra, reference your opening post : it is definitely slow on the Boards these days :-(

Hardly anything moving.

Even I'm suffering from literary constipation :-D :-D

Don't even get me started about holidays! ;-)