Here's a vid from 1968(!!) of Butlin's Holiday Park in Clacton. lol ... superb!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lcLhZFQxfsM
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Snowball wrote:Hello all ... absolutely loved reading all the posts. Aaaah, the memories came flooding back!
I, like the rest of you it seems, spent many a happy day or two at the seaside in Clacton, enjoying the delights of the pier but also the coffee shop up the steps opposite the pier which housed that huge multi-lane Slot-racing/Scalextrics track (i.e if you are facing away from the entrance to the pier, it would have been straight ahead and up the stairs which led to the left). Haven't been to Clacton since the late 90's but I remember the arcade which also sat opposite the pier (on the other side from the scalextric coffee shop place!) which still had many of the old arcade machines (the penny or two pence operated mechanical jobbies) still in operational working order. What fun!!
Paul281 wrote:..I will tell you this though. On the arcade on the pier, there is an original Track And Field in working order. 30p a go!
marc wrote:many thanks for the link. down the coast at Felixstowe, is a double decker
kids ride like the one in the video still in operation
Gary wrote:Welcome to the forums Paul
Gary
Snowball wrote:Hi again all,
Paul281 ... wow, your memories of trips to the seaside are on a par with mine. Especially being scared witless of the giant in the cowboy hat, red shirt, black waistcoat blue jeans and holding a big brown club at Yarmouth pleasure beach. That was still there in around 2000 but I believe it was taken down in around 2001 (when the local council started to invest a few million to tart up the promenade).
Also, the mechanical bull at the arcade in Clacton!!! Forgot all about that ... lol. Many a good laugh was had watching my bro and sis falling off only after a few seconds ride. Also, happened to remember there being a mechanical coin-op laughing clown holding a pie in each hand in a glass enclosure being to the right of the entrance to the arcade outside the pier. More and more memories now flooding back
Being from Ipswich myself, I probably spent most of my time at Manning's amusements at Felixstowe ... from the days of the original wooden red roller coaster being to the left of the main Manning's entrance (1983 or so) to the bright blue steel coaster being put in it's place a few years later.
Look forward to seeing more nostalgia soon ........
Chaaaaaaaaaars.
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