O/T Barnsley Feerst Week

[Romared]

Ennybody rememba wen it wa ?
Wife's just asked mi, a thort it wa nearest setdi to 19th August missen,
all factories closed forra fottnit dint they ?
Weer did you go ?
A dint like goowin t Skeggy , took t long ont bus ,

[upthecolliers]

Ennybody rememba wen it wa ?
Wife's just asked mi, a thort it wa nearest setdi to 19th August missen,
all factories closed forra fottnit dint they ?
Weer did you go ?
A dint like goowin t Skeggy , took t long ont bus ,

All pit's had feerst week off and week afoor a feller I worked with used to say that week was silkstone Feerst week, I used to have 5 bob saved out of mi wage every week it took mi to Blackpool for Barnsley Feerst week, the was more there from Barnsley that week than Blackpool it's sen, we used to cut more coil in Grapes pub than we did at Doduth moorst of them lads are dead Nar, " good owd days"

[Floridatyke]

My Birthday is on the 20th and we were always away at Blackpool on that day so thas right Roma. I remember Dad taking me to a football match Arther Kay had just been transferred there, it was always like home from home walking down the prom nearly everybody that passed said how do or hi up to me Dad.

[Exiletyke]

Ennybody rememba wen it wa ?
Wife's just asked mi, a thort it wa nearest setdi to 19th August missen,
all factories closed forra fottnit dint they ?
Weer did you go ?
A dint like goowin t Skeggy , took t long ont bus ,

Think you're right Roma
My dad decided to take me for the day on the 2nd Saturday[ about 1955 on his motorbike & sidecar to see if we could see my brother & his family who had gone a week earlier
We'd no idea where they were staying & as we rode along the seafront looking for a place to pull in a car pulled out leaving a parking space which we duly occupied [somewhere near Central pier] Our intentionwas to stroll along the prom hoping we might see them [some chance eh?] the beach was packed with not one spare foot in sight but as we stood on the prom looking down onto the beach ,there to our amazement was my brother & his family less chance of finding them than Lobby Lud
As it was lunchtime we all went to the nearest fish restaurant & queued for ages for a table for the best fish & chips on a plate with
tea bread & butter. Posh eh? You might guess there on the next table was our next door neighbour Think they'd told mi dad they were going to Torquay [which as a lad I thought was abroad]
Happy days

[SBRed48]

Allus went to Blackpooil. Lodgings opposite Central Pier on Bairstow St. All relations went same time and mooista Levvi pit weear mi dad worked. Allus seemed to coincide wi Scots Week as the wo allus looads theear.

Used to call the week befooar "Bull Week" in pits when production went up to gerra bonus. (It's Bull Week ivvery week fo Goat--couldn't resist it )

[Romared]

Think you're right Roma
My dad decided to take me for the day on the 2nd Saturday[ about 1955 on his motorbike & sidecar to see if we could see my brother & his family who had gone a week earlier
We'd no idea where they were staying & as we rode along the seafront looking for a place to pull in a car pulled out leaving a parking space which we duly occupied [somewhere near Central pier] Our intentionwas to stroll along the prom hoping we might see them [some chance eh?] the beach was packed with not one spare foot in sight but as we stood on the prom looking down onto the beach ,there to our amazement was my brother & his family less chance of finding them than Lobby Lud
As it was lunchtime we all went to the nearest fish restaurant & queued for ages for a table for the best fish & chips on a plate with
tea bread & butter. Posh eh? You might guess there on the next table was our next door neighbour Think they'd told mi dad they were going to Torquay [which as a lad I thought was abroad]
Happy days

Funny enuff I haven't seen a motorbike and side car for years , art near Glossop today a saw wun , B S A bantam , lovely shiny maroon wun and matching sidecar, also saw a bright Orange Mini Moke remember them ?

[SBRed48]

Funny enuff I haven't seen a motorbike and side car for years , art near Glossop today a saw wun , B S A bantam , lovely shiny maroon wun and matching sidecar, also saw a bright Orange Mini Moke remember them ?

Worrit Stuart Hall ? He lives rarnd theear. If iz art yit.

[Exiletyke]

Funny enuff I haven't seen a motorbike and side car for years , art near Glossop today a saw wun , B S A bantam , lovely shiny maroon wun and matching sidecar, also saw a bright Orange Mini Moke remember them ?

Bloody hell Roma had you stepped back into a time warp
Bantams only 125cc wouldn't have got home yet on one of them
Think Post Office used them a lot with"chair" for carrying post

[Romared]

Bloody hell Roma had you stepped back into a time warp
Bantams only 125cc wouldn't have got home yet on one of them
Think Post Office used them a lot with"chair" for carrying post

I wouldn't have known the CC , it was in pristine condition tho and looked superb, ( nobody int sidecar tho ) as for the Mini Moke it looked like some kids had painted it , Probably did if SBs reyt abart SH