Days out to the seaside

[amethyst]

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Porthcawl railway station.

What a shame when stations like these up and down the country were ripped up

[marc]

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Porthcawl railway station.

[Arran]

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Has anybody ever been to New Brighton? That's the north tip of the Wirral over the water from Liverpool.

[amethyst]

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It was fairly close by. Approximately where the coach park is, left and behind where the photographer was standing taking the above photograph.

Thanks I bet our parents grandparents remember the old station.

[marc]

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Great picture Marc cant remember was the Porthcawl station on that patch marc.The one that beeching got rid of in 1964

It was fairly close by. Approximately where the coach park is, left and behind where the photographer was standing taking the above photograph.

[amethyst]

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Anybody remember this in Porthcawl?

Great picture Marc cant remember was the Porthcawl station on that patch marc.The one that beeching got rid of in 1964

[staffslad]

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Our local Working Men's Club would arrange an annual trip to the seaside for the kids and moms on our estate. The two favourite destinations were Rhyl and Blackpool, and for many kids that annual day trip would be their only holiday. All the kids were given a bottle of pop and a straw when they were on the coach. Actually, I think there were often two coaches. My uncle and auntie were part-time managers of the club and they worked hard arranging everything. Often, when a mom couldn't go, they would arrange for unaccompanied kids to join with another mom or even looked after them themselves. The trip was always on a saturday, usually in the first half of september. It was always an early start, with the coaches leaving about 7.30am and not getting back until around 11pm. There would be singing and lots of banter on the coaches. The older girls would occupy the back seats and entertain us with renditions of their current chart favourites. My uncle would solemnly ask everybody to be back on the coaches by a certain time and they usually would. I think the WMC also gave a small amount of money to each kid--probably about 20p to 50p for them to spend--I am talking of trips between the early 70s and early 80s. Sadly, that WMC is now no more and there are no annual seaside trips. Back then, there was a real sense of community, so you knew more or less everyone on the coaches and everybody got along pretty well.

[marc]

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Anybody remember this in Porthcawl?

[marc]

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It would have happened in Tenby too

Hill's of Tredegar were well known for being seen at most seaside resorts through south and west Wales. I'm not sure when they ceased trading, but the bottom fell out of coach trips during the 1990s.

[amethyst]

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It would have happened in Tenby too

[marc]

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The above coach form the company Hill's of Tredegar, would often be seen on days out at Barry and Porthcawl during the 1970s and 1980s. Coaches from various parts of Wales and England could often be seen parked up in the coach parks of these two popular seaside resorts.

[havasack]

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Not through church or whatever but the local mams would get together and hire a bus for a trip to the coast a few times during the summer hols. Whitley bay, Cullercoats, Tynemouth and South Shields. Always remember building a little table out of sand to put the fish and chips on and once everyone spreading out and siftimg through the sand to find some young womans wedding ring and it did get found!!. Later the metro made it easier and we'd go on our own on late summer nights (Dire straits's "Tunnel of love" neatly sums it up) then older friends would take cars up to Bamburgh, Beadnell etc, nothing like a fire on the beach to sit round and chat with friends.

[amethyst]

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I well remember days out at the seaside. Barry Island and Porthcawl being the usual. Cheese and tomato sandwiches, hard boiled eggs (wrapped up well in newspaper!). Orange squash in a large bottle. A couple of times, when going with the club or chapel, it would rain. Strangely, the day before we went, the sun would be blazing. The day after, the sun would be blazing. On the actual day out, rain would be tamping down!

The car park would be full of coaches

[marc]

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I well remember days out at the seaside. Barry Island and Porthcawl being the usual. Cheese and tomato sandwiches, hard boiled eggs (wrapped up well in newspaper!). Orange squash in a large bottle. A couple of times, when going with the club or chapel, it would rain. Strangely, the day before we went, the sun would be blazing. The day after, the sun would be blazing. On the actual day out, rain would be tamping down!

[amethyst]

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Great beaches in Devon when I was growing up - sadly, we didn't live anywhere near the coast!

Cornwall too