| Where did you spend your best summers when growing up? 00:06 - May 18 with 4724 views | Swanjaxs |
Llangennith for me.
Lucky enough that my Ma and Da had our caravan.
Mackerel were literally jumping out of the waves onto the sand on a late August evening in 76. All around were filling plastic bowls up with the buggers.
What's your first "happy place" holiday mems?
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| Where did you spend your best summers when growing up? on 01:18 - May 18 with 2814 views | Swanjaxs |
| Where did you spend your best summers when growing up? on 00:58 - May 18 by BLAZE |
We'd go strawberry picking in mid-Wales. We would always stop at Erwood - an old railway station turned cafe / art gallery / craft shop just outside Builth Wells
There was an old diesel engine there that you could climb in and play about on, which has since been fully restored. Cricket amongst the sheep shït, tree swing over the stingy nettles and a dip in the river Wye right next to it. Picnic food and hayfever.
Love that place - many memories with family since departed. Took my granddad there one last time a few weeks before he died. Not been since, but I need to. Maybe once lockdown is lifted.
Edit. In fact, given Bonys post this evening, I'm definitely going once lockdown is lifted. [Post edited 18 May 2020 1:05]
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Lovely times mush.
The best holiday was with your ma and da â¤
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| Where did you spend your best summers when growing up? on 01:34 - May 18 with 2803 views | BrynCartwright |
The best place as a kid bar none, was a holiday home in Llechryd just outside Cardigan with daily trips to Mwnt beach. Magical times. Still love Mwnt so much to this day. It is a special place. |  |
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| Where did you spend your best summers when growing up? on 05:07 - May 18 with 2749 views | Captain_Sham |
Pobbles |  |
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| Where did you spend your best summers when growing up? on 06:39 - May 18 with 2725 views | bennytheblue |
Little/broad haven. You are right about the mackerel, out with my dad and uncle we’d come back with a boat full and give them away to whoever wants them on the beach. Likewise we would be given them other days. On the bbq, food from heaven in the havens.
You could scoop up white bait in the waves there were so many. [Post edited 18 May 2020 6:42]
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| Where did you spend your best summers when growing up? on 07:38 - May 18 with 2694 views | Jinxy |
Port Eynon for me - we had a caravan there. My mother was a teacher and father a miner (in Caerau, Maesteg). Every summer during the 6 week holiday he used to commute back and forth on an Ariel Leader 250 - up at 4am, back there by 5pm but he said it was always worth it. Unbelievable when I look back. Lovely memories. |  | | |
| Where did you spend your best summers when growing up? on 07:40 - May 18 with 2688 views | Best_loser |
Cardigan |  | | |
| Where did you spend your best summers when growing up? on 08:02 - May 18 with 2675 views | Pegojack |
Aberavon beach. Catching a red double decker bus from Baglan down there. Much more sand down there then than now on the concrete steps. Big rollers, diving into the surf. Down to the fair afterwards at the end of the prom, and when slightly older, back across the road to the Sportsman bar of the Executive Hotel for a pint with all your schoolmates. |  | | |
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| Where did you spend your best summers when growing up? on 08:26 - May 18 with 2651 views | Dr_Winston |
| Where did you spend your best summers when growing up? on 01:34 - May 18 by BrynCartwright |
The best place as a kid bar none, was a holiday home in Llechryd just outside Cardigan with daily trips to Mwnt beach. Magical times. Still love Mwnt so much to this day. It is a special place. |
My mum's got a static caravan about ten miles from Mwnt. It's her happy place too. She's gutted that she wasn't able to see out Covid down there.
For me I'll second Llangennith. Used to go down from Fri-Sun most good weekends in the Summer. Something about a Llangennith sunset you can't get anywhere else. |  |
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| Where did you spend your best summers when growing up? on 08:42 - May 18 with 2637 views | taffpunk |
Rest Bay, Porthcawl for me. Park in the big car park, then seemed to walk for miles to where Mam and Dad liked to go, bit quieter there. Playing football, cricket, building sandcastles, 'swimming', eating salmon spread sarnies, then ice cream just before going home if we'd behaved ourselves...great times. Twenty years later we did exactly the same with our kids. [Post edited 18 May 2020 8:48]
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| Where did you spend your best summers when growing up? on 09:16 - May 18 with 2593 views | Catullus |
I lived in Mumbles, didn't need to go anywhere far. Many days were spent playing football on Underhill or Oystermouth Castle field, cycling the Prom: sometimes it was down the beach, Rotherslade usually but not very often and others I'd go over my Aunty's in Thistleboon, myself and my cousins and some friends would go up to some loacl farmland (which has houses on it now) we called it the Hilly fields and just play. Oftentimes we end up on the Mumbles Hill and would play on the old AA artillery site, that's been filled in completely now but you used to be able to go inside.
Twice we actually went anywhere else and all I remember is parents arguing! | |
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| Where did you spend your best summers when growing up? on 09:19 - May 18 with 2593 views | longlostjack |
Aberporth and Tresaith |  |
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| Where did you spend your best summers when growing up? on 09:45 - May 18 with 2559 views | swan65split |
Baglan, before it became the Metropolis it is today, the local woods, and deserted estate houses to explore, the mountain, Baglan beach and dunes before its destruction and the building of the monster BP . |  | | |
| Where did you spend your best summers when growing up? on 09:47 - May 18 with 2554 views | swan65split |
| Where did you spend your best summers when growing up? on 08:02 - May 18 by Pegojack |
Aberavon beach. Catching a red double decker bus from Baglan down there. Much more sand down there then than now on the concrete steps. Big rollers, diving into the surf. Down to the fair afterwards at the end of the prom, and when slightly older, back across the road to the Sportsman bar of the Executive Hotel for a pint with all your schoolmates. |
What era? are you from Maes Ty Canol, aged 65-70 ish, and a regular on the number 4@6 buses on Matchday? | | | |
| Where did you spend your best summers when growing up? on 09:52 - May 18 with 2550 views | Fireboy2 |
My mam had no money so it was the beach by the slip for me and my brother, I will never forget getting sunburnt in the summer of 76, still got the pics and the mental scars  |  | | |
| Where did you spend your best summers when growing up? on 10:36 - May 18 with 2520 views | ploppy |
Caswell. Grandparents had a holiday bungalow thing hidden away in the area above the big car park. Sounds grand but it was basically an overgrown caravan without wheels. I'd spend weeks there in the summer hols. Used to get to the beach by going down a dodgy path through the woods that emerged at the back end of the big car park. Don't know if they (the bungalows, not the grandparents) are still there. No TV, no electricity, gas lights, outdoor toilet. Cricket on the "lawn" out front. Lots of card games and dominos (not the pizza). Long walk every morning to catch the double decker bus from the top of the hill to Oystermouth to get milk and stuff (no fridge obviously). Loved it. Happy days. | | | |
| Where did you spend your best summers when growing up? on 11:34 - May 18 with 2474 views | 1983 |
My Nan & Grampa's in Lon Las about 40 yrs ago when everyone of their neighbours were called Uncle or Auntie....
My nan giving me 5p !! ( or as she would say 1 shilling) to buy sweets.
The smell of nice proper ripe tomato's it takes me back to being a little boy in their garden helping ( getting in the way ) my Grampa in his green house, they used to have a grumpy little attitude dog who hated everyone but loved me ! One of their neighbours used to have a goat to keep the brambles down and we would unchain him and he used to hang around with us all day and nobody would batter an eyelid!!
Going next door (my nan didn't have a phone) to use the phone to ring mam & dad to get picked up ....All those people I can picture now are no longer here.
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| Where did you spend your best summers when growing up? on 11:38 - May 18 with 2470 views | 1983 |
| Where did you spend your best summers when growing up? on 08:42 - May 18 by taffpunk |
Rest Bay, Porthcawl for me. Park in the big car park, then seemed to walk for miles to where Mam and Dad liked to go, bit quieter there. Playing football, cricket, building sandcastles, 'swimming', eating salmon spread sarnies, then ice cream just before going home if we'd behaved ourselves...great times. Twenty years later we did exactly the same with our kids. [Post edited 18 May 2020 8:48]
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"Salmon spread sandwiches" we lived off them | |
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| Where did you spend your best summers when growing up? on 11:40 - May 18 with 2463 views | Darran |
Baglan Resevoir,swimming,drinking and taking drugs. |  |
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| Where did you spend your best summers when growing up? on 12:23 - May 18 with 2416 views | taffpunk |
| Where did you spend your best summers when growing up? on 11:38 - May 18 by 1983 |
"Salmon spread sandwiches" we lived off them |
Still love them, going to have some for dinner, hopefully with no sand in them! | |
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| Where did you spend your best summers when growing up? on 12:40 - May 18 with 2398 views | theloneranger |
Llangennith abs brilliant ... In the late 1950's, early 1960's you could hire wooden catamarans on the beach.
The boiling hot summer of 1976?? ... I spent all of that summer in a neighbour's daughter!! 😇😎 |  |
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| Where did you spend your best summers when growing up? on 12:50 - May 18 with 2384 views | GreatBritton |
The Slip for me until my mother got fourpence together somehow and I could catch a number 64 to Pwll Du. These days any time a visitor comes who hasn't seen Pwll Du I take them there and smile when they express their astonishment at such beauty on my doorstep. Though one American vsitor asked me 'Does the tide go in and out much here?' Americans, eh? |  | | |
| Where did you spend your best summers when growing up? on 12:57 - May 18 with 2376 views | Treforys_Jack |
| Where did you spend your best summers when growing up? on 12:50 - May 18 by GreatBritton |
The Slip for me until my mother got fourpence together somehow and I could catch a number 64 to Pwll Du. These days any time a visitor comes who hasn't seen Pwll Du I take them there and smile when they express their astonishment at such beauty on my doorstep. Though one American vsitor asked me 'Does the tide go in and out much here?' Americans, eh? |
Back in the late 70's my Grandmother got remarried to an American naval officer, he was astonished at the level of our tides, never seen anything like it. |  | | |
| Where did you spend your best summers when growing up? on 12:58 - May 18 with 2373 views | Neath_Jack |
Pre-teens - Aberavon Beach, London & Porthcawl.
Teens - Everyf*ckingwhere. |  |
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| Where did you spend your best summers when growing up? on 13:15 - May 18 with 2358 views | cmajack |
Horton beach. Had fabulous family days out there as a child.Also tenby for caravan holidays. | | | |
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