Holidays - Where did you go?

[The Low Country]

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Ok everyone get your hankies out! I only had two hols when I was little because we had a small holding and couldn't leave the animals & there wasn't anyone locally to look after them whilst we were away besides, it was harvest - one of our busiest times. My two hols were a week in a fishermans cottage in Sherringham and a week in a chalet in Scarborough. Both hols were fantastic - it was such a treat to 'go on holiday'

[Seventies Child]

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Spent our Hols in Dad's touring caravan going to various places in the Uk and I loved it. Still do, as me & Hubby have one now.

[moonvisage]

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We use to go camping in tents at camp sites a lot.I can remember walking aroud york on one holiday,and walking around edinburgh on another holiday.I cannot remember,but i assume we were camping in tents.I do recall on our visit to edinburgh,staying at a small guest house for a day or two.Perhaps it was as a one off treat while we were there,or it was the main place to stay for us.

[Fatboy]

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Every childhood holiday we went on was at Morecambe. Really loved the place has a kid. But its a ghost town now apparently

[Austin Maxi]

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Most years we went down to the New Forest and stayed (first in a tent and then we bought a caravan) at a campsite near Milford-On-Sea called Lytton Lawn. We used to go round Lymington, Christchurch, Bournemouth, Southampton and into the main forest. I don't go back there as often as I'd like but the last time was in 2004.

I remember that we used to go and have occasional meals at the restaurant at the Pontins Wick Ferry Holiday Camp in Christchurch. The dining hall was like walking into a school hall. By 2004, the camp had been bulldozed and was in the process of being replaced by housing.

In the evenings we used to have a dinghy with a small outboard motor which we would launch at Keyhaven and motor out towards Hurst Castle, and we would sometimes go to The White Horse in Milford, and sit out in the beer garden, or in my case, play on the climbing frame. Great times.

[Heather74]

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Camber Sands for me too..15 years running.
we never went to Pontins, too much like a stalag with its loudspeakers and regime. Although we used to sneak in there over the fence.We used to stay at Maddiesons camp further up the road or Silver Sands.
Still a fantastic place for a day at the beach,but a bit of a Chav haven.

Theres a Maddiesons 'Pirates' badge up for sale on ebay at the moment and it does say Pirates not black eye (link in your pm box, hurry if you want it. it only has 20 hrs to go)

[HappinessDragon]

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We always went to either Withernsea, Bridlington or Scarborough, though we did once go to Beacholme near Cleethorpes. We didn't need flights to Spain, we had the New Holland ferry.

[Marine Boy]

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..Some of my happiest holiday memories were simply walking the dog on the beach, then going home and playing cards with a huge bag of penny sweets as the money we bet with

I can relate to this. I've posted already about my holidays in the rentable bungalows at Bracklesham Bay. We had a dachshund and would also take walks along the beach with her. I think we played board games if the weather was bad, but - as is often the case with this kind of memory - I recall the sun always shined!

[Richard1978]

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Interestingly I remember my Mum taking some rasberry Nesquick with us to the Isle Of Wight in 1982, though the containers were thick cylindrical card with a plastic lid.

[FLYING SAUCER]

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Yes! I saw some in B & M Bargains today for £1.49. Might buy some just to remember - but I bet they wont be the same,printing and boxes were, different/bigger!

Oh, and we always used to have raspberry or banana Nesquick in the oblong box - mum used to try to get me to drink milk cos I was so skinny! Must have worked!!!!!!

[Richard1978]

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I remember us taking those sets of mini cerial boxes to my Gran's caravan at Wells Next The Sea.

[sixtyten]

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Didnt ask for much then did we?

Nope. Some of my happiest holiday memories were simply walking the dog on the beach, then going home and playing cards with a huge bag of penny sweets as the money we bet with

[FLYING SAUCER]

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In 1974 my Dad bought an old boat and was moored in Ipswich, industrial dockyard really. But every year we had it lifted to scrape off the barnacles from the hull. When you are 9 years old you just accepted this as the norm! I thought that every kid went away for a week for solid work !!!

Good fun though when I look back!

Then Dad bought an old Transit van, and it was camping for quite a few years to Weymouth and Norfolk. And something someone said in an earlier Holiday memory was the mini cereal variety boxes! Lovely

Didnt ask for much then did we?

[zip55]

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Butlin's Filey in 1967 .. then usually either Skipsea, Brid or Scarborough, except for 1973 / 74 when I worked (?!) at Butlins Skegness ...

[stuckinthe80's]

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We usually spent our holidays in Whitby or Berwick upon Tweed. I still really love whitby. Not been to Berwick in over 20 years though. We used to always stay in self catering holiday flats on 'The Crescent' on the West Cliff facing the sea in Whitby. It was great and I have many happy memories of staying there.