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Holidays at Wallis's Caravan Site at Cayton Bay Scarborough.
I have lots of fond memories of Cayton Bay as a child in the late 1960s/70s, the only place we knew and loved. Mam had a caravan there, following in her mam's footsteps. We loved to get there in the school holidays, even the 3 hour journey there with all us kids taking turns to share the sick bucket didn't put us off going. We all crammed in my Uncle Bill's car, God knows how we all fitted in but we did. The smell of the diesel would set us off feeling sick within minutes of getting in the car and we would be asking "Are we nearly there yet?" every 5 minutes. Mam's caravan had no running water or a toilet, no mod cons like they all have today but we thought it was brill, lighting the gas lights at night and the smell of it. Even taking it in turns to fetch the water from the tap stands, and emptying the slop bucket was a shared event. We... Read more
Cafe on The Beach And Donkeys
There used to be a cafe on the concrete landing at the beach in the late 1960s, early 1970s.
Mum took the donkeys to the beach, up and down the Pumping Station Rd in the 1950s, Wallis's was a very busy place, mum has told me that Mr Wallis owned a T.V shop before buying the camp and he asked her granddad to be his partner, his name was Hanson, but he declined his offer. They were local dairy farmers, the farm was on the road that spurs off the Filey road and runs only a short distance from the cliffs to Flamborough, the farm house looks like a small mansion with a balustrade around the top, you can see it clearly from the road on the seaward side.
Great-grandma had a caravan on Wallis's and we stayed there in the summers, 1970s, there were railway carridges on the site, just in front of the reception and to the right, and we would go with granny to see the people... Read more
Cows?
How strange to see cows on this picture. I remember lots and lots of sheep. The highlight of our walk across the main road and down the steep path to the beach (often through a layer of fog which blotted out the sun when you got there!) was to make baaing noises and wait for the reply!
Childhood Years
My name is now Marie Moore but my maiden name was Jeeves. Memories of Cayton Bay 1960s to 70s will stay with me forever, my nannan, mam and her 2 sisters all had their own caravans on Wallis's Holiday Camp, our caravan number was 224, it was on the top field across from the big house on the corner of Cayton Lane then but later got moved further down the field for some reason, mam and her sisters were all next to each other, where my cousins would stay at the same time as us. My uncle Bill used to take us there in his car and we would all be sick with the smell of diesel. Once we arrived there, my sister Wendy and brother Frankie would be dropped off at the office to collect our name badges with caravan number on, which were on a blue ribbon. We would go into the amusement arcade which was like a long wooden shed on the playground and there was a... Read more
North Yorkshire memories
The Cottages
The cottage nearest to the telegraph pole was my grandmother's. My uncles Ted and Bob lived there with her until they moved to Woodbine Farm, Langtoft. After they left, gran moved in with my family at the other end of the village, Meadow View, and Uncle Cliff and his family moved in until they in turn moved to the farm at the bottom of the village. We think that the cottage at the forefront of the photo belonged to Geoff Bowes and family, or Willy Olden who mended bikes. Ted Dobson also lived in the cottages and most definitely the little brown one next to my gran's belonged to a lady called Tilly Biggins and nobody passed her house without being questioned as to where and what were you doing there.
Evacuees George And Jennie Barker
My brother and I were evacuees for 2 years. We stayed with a wonderful family, Mr and Mrs Braithwait and their daughter Eileen. My brother George went back many times as he loved it there, as he had got very on with a 5-year-old boy and they were always together. My brother tragicallydied in 1954. I went back to Gristhorp about 12 years ago to see this little boy (his name was Bobby, I have forgotten his surname). We had a wonderful time chatting about the past, I don't know why it took me so long to go back there. BUT four months after seeing him I had a phone call to say he had died. I often think, did my brother send me there to say goodby for him?
Holiday at my Grandma's House
My mum was born in Seamer and she lived at Bank Top, Seamer Road, she had 5 brothers and sisters, and her mum was widowed very early in life, leaving her to bring up all those children. Well, she did a good job, they were the cream of the crop, and myself and my brothers and sisters had many happy holidays in Seamer. My gran was called Isobel Durham. One of my mum's brothers lived at Lower house Farm, just outside the village, we also spent many happy holidays there with Aunt Ethel and Uncle Bunny Durham. To this day, Seamer has not changed much and I don't think it will. I have a cousin, Joyce Wood, who still lives at Bank Top, Seamer, and an aunt who lives further down the road. I have taken my three sons to visit Seamer many times while they were growing up, they too loved the place, so I have not put a date down for this memory, because there were many memories over... Read more
