Tell us more Peter was it a train trip/coach trip and other recollections I for one would be interested to hear more ....my recollection of the "Festival of Britain" was from my stamp collecting days
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Tell us more Peter was it a train trip/coach trip and other recollections I for one would be interested to hear more ....my recollection of the "Festival of Britain" was from my stamp collecting days
Let no-one be in any doubt there is no threshold of interestingness on this thread as most of my own posts will testifymickthemaverick wrote: ↑27 May 2020, 13:20 .....The zoo trips hardly warrant detailing as I am sure everyone has been to the Zoo at some point and nothing significant happened on either of my trips.
Sad to say No on both counts. My two grandmothers both lived in London, one in Leytonstone and one in Walthamstow. I had been visiting them on a monthly basis with my mother since I was old enough to use a pushchair. Around 18 months old I would say, so the trip into London was really just a routine for me by the time I went with the school. We used to take the train to Euston, then trolley bus, if I was lucky, or No 30 bus to Angel and then the 38 bus out to the Baker's Arms at the top of Leigh Bridge Road. From there we walked either to the right to my Mum's Mum (nan) or to the left for my Dad's Mum.(grandma). Nan's was always preferable as it was in William Street just round the corner whereas we had quite a walk to Grandma's in Walthamstow but I cannot remember the name of her road.NewcastleFalcon wrote: ↑27 May 2020, 14:00
Was it your first journey into the "big City" on the underground, on a London Bus?
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Indeed, fairly familiar and have been to those places quite a bit. I would possible recognise some of those people given a bit of time.NewcastleFalcon wrote: ↑27 May 2020, 08:55 The title of this film should be "How to Have Fun on a Trip"
Have a look at this film from the 1960's.
I thought it had gone a bit AWOL when the bus pulls up to a random field with cows in it. But no that was the best bit. See the joy of simple things like egg and spoon races/sack races/three legged races/tug of war/kicking a ball around/running.
and here's a poser which if Steve watches the film he will get straight away
Where did they go to?
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Looks like it although I must confess to never having been there, although my mother lived there for some years, actually in Cowbar which is a single row of houses east of Staithes itself. Pain in the bum to get to, worse than Robin Hoods Bay and Runswick bay.mickthemaverick wrote: ↑27 May 2020, 10:35 Could this be an ariel view of the destination? Staithes just down the coast from Saltburn:
I think we went by train, possibly steam! Just inside the main entrance was a huge glass sphere with blue electrical discharge, if you touched the glass a blue tracer would go to your point of contact, that was in the 'Dome of Discovery' there were all sorts of technical things of interest to me including a stripped down tram chassis with a full function explanation, I liked that a lot, trams were still running in London at the time,NewcastleFalcon wrote: ↑27 May 2020, 12:15Tell us more Peter was it a train trip/coach trip and other recollections I for one would be interested to hear more ....my recollection of the "Festival of Britain" was from my stamp collecting days
REgards Neil
Here's 9 minutes of 1951 in colour Peter to help..
I was going to take a screenshot of that, caught my eye too. So I might as well do it.
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