When I was a kid on holiday in the early to late 60s we always went to Scarborough and it was always a dream of mine to go into the Harbour Bar and order a knickerbocker glory, but they were always too expensive and the Harbour Bar being an "American Coffee Bar", ie it served espresso, very exotic, it always attracted the scooter boys and my mother would never take us in there.
A couple of years ago we met some members of my wifes family in Scarborough on a nice sunny day and as we strolled the prom I was telling my brother in law all bout my childhood spent on the beach and on the donkeys and how I'd never quite got around to having a knickerbocker glory in the Harbour Bar.
Like a fool he offered to buy us all one - well over £40 he spent on ice creams but I got to sit at the bar on a stool and the interior was exactly how I remembered it, 50 years is a long time to wait for a knickerbocker glory but it tasted even better because a geordie was paying for it