Tag Archive | cayton bay
Well just a nightcap then, just the one…
Wallis’s Holiday Camp, Cayton Bay nr Scarborough was the accepted replacement phrase for the word “Holiday” when I was very young, mainly due to the fact that it was the only place that we ever went to when I was very young, for the first ten years of my life I thought that it was [...]
Baby Patrol Man
There was a time when parents would happily leave their young children, babies even, locked in a tin box while they partied the night away in a place of entertainment, safe in the knowledge that a man, who they didn’t know personally, would peer into the tin box occasionally and inform them if their infants [...]
They tried their best to get rid of me
See that big group of kids ? Thats outside The Rendevous Club that is, Cayton Bay nr Scarborough on Yorkshires bracing coast, our holiday choice for the first ten years of my life, the place where we kids first realised that you couldn’t plug a microphone into an amplifier without our dad insisting on getting [...]
The Matriarchs
See those two old ladies ? They’re on holiday, Cayton Bay nr Scarborough on the bracing Yorkshire coast, its the first week in August. How do I know all of this ? Its my Great-Aunt Beattie and my Grandma thats why, time has erased the reason why they were on holiday with us, I certainly [...]
Wallis’s Cayton Bay…
Theres an excellent web site dedicated to the memory of Wallis’s Cayton Bay holiday camp right here http://www.cayton-bay.info/ I could spend, nay I have spent, hours browsing those folders of old photographs and postcards looking for images of myself for we spent so long at that bloody place that I must surely by now be on [...]
It was all we ever knew…
I didn’t leave Yorkshire until I was a teenager, never had the need to you see, we have everything we need right here, right here in what we often call “Gods County”, it being the idea that an omnipresent being who forces people to sing songs that praise him every Sunday (here’s me thinking vanity [...]
