Re: Tell us what you really think ... : Sun Oct 21, 2012 8:07 am  

peggy wrote:

yes, i heard your mam often left her front door open.

aye,as an ex Merchant Seaman, "Arbroath Annie" was legendary on the east coast....

Re: Tell us what you really think ... : Sun Oct 21, 2012 8:16 am  

Big Graeme wrote:

I was right, you have no clue what they are for.

then what are they for oh wise one?

Re: Tell us what you really think ... : Sun Oct 21, 2012 8:17 am  

sanjunien wrote:

aye,as an ex Merchant Seaman, "Arbroath Annie" was legendary on the east coast....

She had the tatt's to prove it.

Re: Tell us what you really think ... : Sun Oct 21, 2012 8:22 am  

WIZEB wrote:

Before the ghost town it became.

A little seaside coastal resort heaving with holidaymakers, caravan sites full to bursting, pubs with music filling the high street, amusement arcades and the constant clanking of pennies and pinballs.

Frolicing at the outdoor council swimming pool in the hazy summer of '76 (now sadly cemented over, and built upon).
You should have seen the ladybird invasion of that that summer samwire.

Donkeys and sandcastles on the beach.

A thronging market and the constant aroma of frying fish and chips.

T'was a different world, halcyon days indeed, never to return.
Pass the hankie mate.

cheap foreign travel.

Re: Tell us what you really think ... : Sun Oct 21, 2012 8:59 am  

WIZEB wrote:

She had the tatt's to prove it.

Blimey WZ, I could be your old man !!!

are you fair haired, good looking, intelligent and about 40 with the hint of a Norfolk accent, by any chance ?

I expect a cheap holiday in Croatia at least !

Re: Tell us what you really think ... : Sun Oct 21, 2012 9:48 am  

sanjunien wrote:

Blimey WZ, I could be your old man !!!

are you fair haired, good looking, intelligent and about 40 with the hint of a Norfolk accent, by any chance ?

I expect a cheap holiday in Croatia at least !

I'm no turkey plucker.

Just found a picture of my old pool, long since gone.
Spent all my time there in the 70's. Couldn't afford a pass but we used to scale the 6ft wall (very high when you're only eight) out the back.



Wonder if Coddy ever gave it a go on his ventures to Wiv?

Re: Tell us what you really think ... : Sun Oct 21, 2012 10:30 am  

WIZEB wrote:

I'm no turkey plucker.

Just found a picture of my old pool, long since gone.
Spent all my time there in the 70's. Couldn't afford a pass but we used to scale the 6ft wall (very high when you're only eight) out the back.

Wonder if Coddy ever gave it a go on his ventures to Wiv?

was the wall to keep people out or to stop them escaping ?

if it's anything like Gt Yarmouth in the 60s bathing was in about -20° in the middle of august with a howling gale....aahh, happy days ?

Re: Tell us what you really think ... : Sun Oct 21, 2012 11:56 am  

sanjunien wrote:

was the wall to keep people out or to stop them escaping ?

It was Withernsea mate, not Berlin.

Re: Tell us what you really think ... : Sun Oct 21, 2012 5:49 pm  

WIZEB wrote:

Wonder if Coddy ever gave it a go on his ventures to Wiv?

I've pissed in there may a time mate. I was also a regular a Trailer Park on a weekend, usually to be found legless in Neptune Club or puking outside the chippie.

Re: Tell us what you really think ... : Mon Oct 22, 2012 6:44 am  

samwire wrote:

then what are they for oh wise one?

It's so WORKING parents can drop their kids off early at school and still get to WORK on time.