The old days.

[Ken's Deputy 4,462]

20 minutes ago, mackem said:

 kids should do similar stuff nowadays but sadly they don't. 

http://www.jasonendfield.com/

 

[mackem 29,962]

10 minutes ago, Ken's Deputy said:

http://www.jasonendfield.com/

 

That's a good idea actually, I think in Swedish or Norwegian schools you can do a hunting course? 

[mushroom 14,203]

12 minutes ago, mackem said:

That's a good idea actually, I think in Swedish or Norwegian schools you can do a hunting course? 

I think I’m some German schools too… I still think a weekend in Blackpool is way more educational

[Squirrel_Basher 17,102]

@mushroom

With Shaz and Tray !!!

[Squirrel_Basher 17,102]

Another place was Amroth near Saundersfoot ,SW .My Aunty ran the Amroth arms so that’s where we stayed .Cramped but as a kid ,the smell of smoke and beer was intoxicating .

Lovely little sea front with a walk to Wiseman’s bridge then Saundersfoot and Tenby if your feeling energetic and the tides out .Caught my first tope off a boat out of Saundersfoot ,about 60 pound which was strung up back at the key for all to see .Looking back that was a pointless thing to do as they wernt eaten .

Grandad lived at Kilgetty up in the hills a bit and was mayor of Newport for a while .

Yep we were posh ,had some decent holidays but dad insisted on driving a Citroen pig thing that sounded like a sewing machine .Can remember breaking down on the old Severn bridge ,Dad having to walk to the pay kiosk for help and the tow company sending out a Hilux recovery truck with a back tow lift

Dad was taken into Aust for a hire car and came back with a brand new cortina that dad was scared to death of hitting .

Simple holidays filled with life’s simple things ,far better for the mind than the fecking Internet and games of today .

[Ken's Deputy 4,462]

3 minutes ago, foxdropper said:

Looking back that was a pointless thing to do as they wernt eaten .

Never understood that myself.

[jukel123 9,668]

2 minutes ago, foxdropper said:

Another place was Amroth near Saundersfoot ,SW .My Aunty ran the Amroth arms so that’s where we stayed .Cramped but as a kid ,the smell of smoke and beer was intoxicating .

Lovely little sea front with a walk to Wiseman’s bridge then Saundersfoot and Tenby if your feeling energetic and the tides out .Caught my first tope off a boat out of Saundersfoot ,about 60 pound which was strung up back at the key for all to see .Looking back that was a pointless thing to do as they wernt eaten .

Grandad lived at Kilgetty up in the hills a bit and was mayor of Newport for a while .

Yep we were posh ,had some decent holidays but dad insisted on driving a Citroen pig thing that sounded like a sewing machine .Can remember breaking down on the old Severn bridge ,Dad having to walk to the pay kiosk for help and the tow company sending out a Hilux recovery truck with a back tow lift

Dad was taken into Aust for a hire car and came back with a brand new cortina that dad was scared to death of hitting .

Simple holidays filled with life’s simple things ,far better for the mind than the fecking Internet and games of today .

I've fished for tope a few times but never got into one. I'll keep on trying.

[WILF 51,020]

1 hour ago, mackem said:

I used to go there with the Tyne and Wear young naturalists club, we did short tail field vole studies, caught them in Longworth traps. 

It’s amazing you had stuff like that mate, a far cry from ruining sorts, throwing bricks through paki shop windows and hanging the school care takers cat of my mis-spent youth ! 
 

we had fishing and air rifles as our “things” but certainly never any official clubs like that.

[big sid 1,128]

1 hour ago, mackem said:

I used to go there with the Tyne and Wear young naturalists club, we did short tail field vole studies, caught them in Longworth traps. 

i thought you ran about in the skuddy

[dytkos 17,953]

11 hours ago, mushroom said:

Blackpool hundreds of times for the day run all through my childhood. Mid 80’’s we used to holiday for a week each year at the Regency Caravan park in Morecambe. Frontier Land Theme park day pass, Crabbing up near Heysham power station and mind a mate and me once fed a minor bird bubble gum and got screamed at  Oh and we nearly got swept off the steps at high tide during a storm 

Ponderosa at Cleveleys awesome  

Cheers, D.

 

[dytkos 17,953]

3 hours ago, THE STIFFMEISTER said:

I dread to think mate , I genuinely do .
 

early 2000s Blackpool was a sensation for young northern lads . 

trance music , decent cheap motors , some nice clobber on ,bathed  head to toe in joop and Caroline herrara 212, nice Ben Sherman shirt , then nonsense along the front . halcyon days never to be repeated in reality as it truly was a mesh of the things only the young of that time had .

Pre all the social media age ,  delights 

 

 

20 years earlier it was easier than that  

Cheers, D.

[mushroom 14,203]

23 minutes ago, dytkos said:

Ponderosa at Cleveleys awesome  

Cheers, D.

 

The hotel? Nah that was in Blackpool mate, I fitted the blinds in the rooms and the canopies outside

[dytkos 17,953]

1 minute ago, mushroom said:

The hotel? Nah that was in Blackpool mate, I fitted the blinds in the rooms and the canopies outside

Caravan park, entertainment every night  

Cheers, D.

[mackem 29,962]

1 hour ago, WILF said:

It’s amazing you had stuff like that mate, a far cry from ruining sorts, throwing bricks through paki shop windows and hanging the school care takers cat of my mis-spent youth ! 
 

we had fishing and air rifles as our “things” but certainly never any official clubs like that.

Sunderland was OK for that sort of thing, decent museum and loads of countryside, they took us to Quarrington quarry one weekend with a geologist, huge amount of fossils in there, I found an almost whole fossil fish in better condition than this which I am guessing is from the same quarry. https://www.fossils-uk.com/new-in-c40/british-upper-permian-fossil-fish-from-county-durham-england-sku-v2384-palaeoniscus-freieslebenesis-p3873

[jukel123 9,668]

2 minutes ago, mackem said:

Sunderland was OK for that sort of thing, decent museum and loads of countryside, they took us to Quarrington quarry one weekend with a geologist, huge amount of fossils in there, I found an almost whole fossil fish in better condition than this which I am guessing is from the same quarry. https://www.fossils-uk.com/new-in-c40/british-upper-permian-fossil-fish-from-county-durham-england-sku-v2384-palaeoniscus-freieslebenesis-p3873

I know it's not quite the same thing as finding a fossil yourself,but there's a specialised fossil shop in Edinburgh old town. The fossils there blow your mind.

If I had a lot of money (and a less domineering wife) I'd fill the house with fossils and geological specimens. Far better than tatty ornaments.