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    Quote Originally Posted by kevin View Post
    Escaping the lingerie department was one of my favourites - I understood exactly how they felt; must have been my Catholic upbringing.
    Is everyone on here Catholic...

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    Quote Originally Posted by pablo42 View Post
    Is everyone on here Catholic...
    I said 'Catholic' upbringing. Never claimed I was a Catholic now - the nuns beat all religious tendencies out of me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kevin View Post
    I said 'Catholic' upbringing. Never claimed I was a Catholic now - the nuns beat all religious tendencies out of me.
    same thing happened to me dad. That's why he wouldn't send us to a Catholic school.

    Ironic really, cos he used to kick me up and down the stairs. Spose he was keeping me for himself...

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    I think I have mentioned it before there are some more old pics of New Brighton on my flickrset

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2...7604706463338/
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    Quote Originally Posted by gregs dad View Post
    I think I have mentioned it before there are some more old pics of New Brighton on my flickrset

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2...7604706463338/
    I've had a good look at them Joe. Great pictures. Great site too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pablo42 View Post
    You wanna see it now. All the front is dug up, boating lake drained. Victoria road is just houses now. Most of the pubs and shops have gone. Awful, and they still call it a resort...
    Sad very sad !

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    Quite true about the Catholic school nuns.. Made me Never want to be a Nun..

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    Quote Originally Posted by naked lilac View Post
    Quite true about the Catholic school nuns.. Made me Never want to be a Nun..
    Were you thinking of becoming a Nun then NL.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kevin View Post
    I remember being there once with my grandad and brother, and once of us fell in the boating lake and had to travel home wet-through on the bus. For the life of me I can't remember if it was me or my brother. Grandad got told off by my mum!
    Funny how many people come home from New Brighton soaked through ! My mate got stuck in quicksand there (very frightening tho' she was nearly up to her waist ! ) and 2 lads helped pull her out.
    We'd missed the last ferry from NB and had to do that long walk along to Secombe to catch that one. She was caked in wet mud and soaked!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by kevin View Post
    I've posted this before, but probably on a sailors forum before we migrated to Yo.

    Off topic a bit but it is a memory brought back by mention of a chair lift.



    We had one day in Singapore before flying home. We'd been up nearly 30 hours when we arrived there so should have been sleeping. Me and an electrician from Liverpool - George Fisher - got in a taxi and asked the driver to show us the island. He finished by dropping us off for the cable car across to Sentosa Island. It goes from a hill on Singapore to a hill on Sentosa, so when it crosses the water you are exceptionally high.
    As we crossed the water George admitted he was scared of heights. Being a total tosser, I started to rock the car. I stopped when I realised that George was genuinely freaking out. He was trembling when we got off and I said there was nothing to be scared about as it was totally safe.

    A few weeks after we got home I saw on TV that the cable car had come down and people had been killed.
    OMG! that's awful

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    Quote Originally Posted by lindylou View Post
    OMG! that's awful
    Just looked it up - my memory is playing tricks as the accident must have been about a year after I was on it.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapo...e_Car_disaster

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    [IMG][/IMG]

    This is the boating lake at New Brighton. It looks like it is gonna be a major building programme.

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    [IMG][/IMG]

    These were all taken through the fence. I had me litle mate with me, so didn't fancy climbing the fence.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gregs dad View Post

    For the benefit of our younger members this is what New Brighton used to look like in 1959
    This is the same site today. Taken from the bottom of where the pier was.

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