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Visiting Blackpool Illuminations as A Child.

Around the year 1950 a coach would take all the children in our road on a trip to see Blackpool Lights. Those days they called the coach a charabanc.  Does anybody remember that name?  How happy all the children would be going on that trip to Blackpool. I remember very well  leaving in the early evening on the coach with our parents so excited. And arriving at Blackpool and riding up the promenade so mesmerized at all the pretty lights and all the differant themes of nursery rhymes.  We would have hot baked potatoes on our trip home and always returned with a stick of Blackpool Rock. Happy memories of yesteryear!

Written by Brenda Vanderwert. To send Brenda Vanderwert a private message, click here.

A memory of Blackpool in Lancashire shared on Tuesday, 15th April 2008.

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RE: RE: Visiting Blackpool Illuminations as A Child.

I too remember all what you have wrote, those were the days, we always stopped for Fish n Chips. Happy days they were then ...

Comment from JP on Thursday, 19th March 2009.

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