Bank Holidays

[darren]

your not that old surely HG.
Your only in your twenties.
to old no such thing.

so where did you go on bank holidays.
im sure there where some local parks or aunties you visited.

i had some good times going to coastal resorts playing arcades.
we went to some beautiful beaches and we quite often spent the entire day there not leaving till irt was dark.

Whitley Bay is legendary for bank holidays, never made it there myself and am much too old to do it now

[Gothic]

I know from 1984 to the late 1990's I would spend the late May Bank Holiday and the August Bank Holiday playing cricket, as the league we were in used to have scheduled fixtures on these days. It always seemed that we played an away fixture at one of the teams on the coast, like Minehead or Watchet and the traffic would be terrible and it would take us ages to get there.

[Hooper68]

Disney time(a compilation of clips from various Disney movies) was always on on a bank holiday.

[Richard1978]

I remember the clips were linked by a mid ranking celeb of the time.

[escorteclipse1990]

I remember Bank holidays used to go to the local car boot sale for matchbox cars when i was kid. I still go to car boots on Bank Holidays and Weekends but i go now looking for retro stuff and for old Matchbox/Corgi/Dinky cars.

[amethyst]

Bank holidays used to be fun before all the out of town shops opened,dont go out on bank holidays anymore better off staying in avoiding all the traffic queues

[Big Tim]

I don't really remember much special happening on Bank Holidays, aside from a day off school - which were often in the school holidays in any case - so I didn't really notice them. We never went out anywhere on those days, as the roads in and out of York were pretty much a car park, especially the A64 to Scarborough and the A166 to Bridlington, where it seemed the whole of the North and West Ridings headed for - which is still the case today. When I was older, as I had an evening paper round, there were still papers printed on bank holidays, so I had to go and do the deliveries, so it pretty much wrote the day off in terms of being able to plan anything else. Later, I was at University in Scotland, there were sometimes slightly different bank holidays (or possibly local holidays) to those in England, which we usually were expected to continue our studies as normal if they fell during term time.

The other memory of bank holidays was that people always made a point of saying it would pour down as "it always rains on bank holidays"; and my mum complaining that the news or her favourite programme had been moved from its usual timeslot because it was a bank holiday! (Mind you, some things never change, these two points are still valid today!)

[George 1978]

I used to be bored stiff when a Bank Holiday came around - no shops open; Sunday service on buses; nothing to do. Just like a Sunday in a way.

At least there would be a James Bond or Superman film on the television (cue DFS and sales adverts in the commercial breaks) - and now they just put ordinary weekday programmes on now.

Mind you, as a snooker fan, at least we have the conclusion of the final at the Crucible on the May Day Bank Holiday, and my birthday falls on the August Bank Holiday if the 30th falls on a Monday, please note. (I do a bit of travelling just before that day, such as visiting the Newlyn Fish Festival in Cornwall...)

And it's great when there is a Royal Wedding or a Queen's Jubilee that is an official Bank Holiday. A one off thing rather than an annual thing.

I suppose I find it less boring these days than I would have done so back in the 1980s.

[escorteclipse1990]

Yep Bank Holiday tv is rubbish now. No James Bond films now,

[George 1978]

Yep Bank Holiday tv is rubbish now. No James Bond films now,

Yes - apart from the premiere of the Dad's Army film (in which a family member was actually an extra in it, I kid you not), and an hour long Coronation Street in order to accommodate it, ITV's schedule looked exactly like an ordinary Monday schedule - even the 6.00 pm regional news was half an hour long for the first time - I know that it wasn't a Bank Holiday in Scotland, but I think that they have given up now. Even in the previous decade things were a lot better.