Sheffield History Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnm Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 I first went to Scarborough age 8 in 1952 although we actually stayed in a caravan at Wallis' camp at Cayton Bay. Here are some photos from that holiday. The caravans were fairly early versions. The bill for a 4 berth caravan (see photo ) was £20 3 shillings !! Have gone to Scarborough on & off ever since & now over 50 years later we go twice a year generally but now stay in a hotel! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lysander Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 I haven't been to Scarborough for years but Wallis's Holiday Camp, Cayton Bay was the first place I ever saw, and used, a Juke box, had my first Knickerbocker glory...both in the snack bar at the side of the camp office, and their Rendezvous Club was "out of this world" for this simple Sheffield school lad back in 1956. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffield History Posted May 17, 2018 Author Share Posted May 17, 2018 PS - The Futurist Theatre that's in this video was built in 1921 and is being demolished as I type this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
History dude Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 I would have thought Skegness or Cleethorpes would have been more popular with Sheffield people. Both Scarborough and Blackpool were longer to get to then those two. There were also more trains to them, especially from Sheffield Midland than those two. Blackpool was probably more accessible via Victoria Station, than Midland. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rover1949 Posted May 21, 2018 Share Posted May 21, 2018 Yes, transport was a big factor before we all had cars. I knew someone who lived in Cleethorpes during the 50s, - his parents ran a boarding house which was very popular with Sheffield folk. The men would cycle over from Sheffield whilst the wives and children came by coach (chara?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldbloke Posted May 31, 2018 Share Posted May 31, 2018 We camped in Burniston, about 4 miles out of Scarborough on the Whitby road, every summer from 1959 until 1975 (Except 1967 when we went to Mablethorpe to my Aunt & Uncle's caravan). Last time I went, about ten years ago, it seemed to be a shadow of it's former self, run down and dirty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lysander Posted May 31, 2018 Share Posted May 31, 2018 If memory serves me right so popular was "Costa del Clee" that the Star published an edition for Cleethorpes during works weeks when tens of thousands of Sheffield and Rotherham workers visited and Grimsby Town FC even tried to recruit supporters from our region. Certainly in the 1940/50's Sheffield Victoria was the station to use for Bridlington, Scarborough, Skegness and Cleethorpes ,whereas the Midland had services to both Blackpool and Morecombe. Victoria may have served Blackpool directly...I can't be sure...but the only time I went by train there ( late 1960s) we caught the civilised and much lamented electric service out of Victoria and changed stations in Manchester where we then caught a bone shaking DMU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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