05-03-2018, 09:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Lion Queen
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Blackpool! As a child my parents took us there every single year for our holidays. I got to know Blackpool like the back of my hand and was quite at home there. I have such fond memories of Blackpool, the beach, the donkeys, the candy floss, fish and chips, the pleasure beach, the piers, the tower, the list is endless. I will always have a soft spot for Blackpool even though its a mucky 'ole now 
05-03-2018, 09:47 AM
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I'm not getting the violin out here but actually I never went on holiday as a child that doesn't mean I didn't have a good time in summer holidays though but it was always with other kids in the neighbourhood never with adults.I suppose we ran wild it didn't seem like that though I was just another little ragamuffin in back street inner city Leeds.
05-03-2018, 09:59 AM
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My uncles farm where he kept every farm animal imaginable and also peacocks and pheasants. His farm was near Waltham, Lincolnshire and on weekends he would take his horse and cart and donkeys to the beach at Cleethorpes or even as far as Skegness for the children to ride.Also our cottage at Weybourne in Norfolk with the beach just down the lane.
05-03-2018, 11:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Kev60
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My uncles farm where he kept every farm animal imaginable and also peacocks and pheasants. His farm was near Waltham, Lincolnshire and on weekends he would take his horse and cart and donkeys to the beach at Cleethorpes or even as far as Skegness for the children to ride.Also our cottage at Weybourne in Norfolk with the beach just down the lane.
05-03-2018, 12:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Silver Tabby
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I have happy memories of Skegness as well, Kev, as my father's parents lived there and I usually spent Easter with them. Mother would put me on the train at York in the care of the 'Guard' (remember them?) who would put me out at Lincoln. Granddad would be waiting for me there - we would go somewhere lovely for lunch before going on another train to Skegness.
05-03-2018, 06:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Kev60
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Yes. Skegness was wonderful. My uncle had a field outside of Skegness where he could care and bed down the animals and sometimes the whole family would come and camp in the field. We'd have a big camp fire and all the adults would sing. My mother would always say we were living like Gypsies.
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