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The Holiers back then
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18-07-2016 10:48pm#1
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It wasn't much better when I went there as a kid 40 years ago
Oh, god the food was terrible!!
Very true, my mam got food poisoning there. She wouldn't complain. That was in the days when you took everything on the chin.
I've fond memories of mosney in the seventies
That said I grew up across from portlaoise prison so I'd low expectations
We went twice. It was very exciting for me as we never had any experience of going away for holidays back then except for these two times to Mosney. Kids today have been all over the world. They don't know they're born!0 -
Jellybaby1 wrote: »Anyone remember Butlin's at Mosney? R.I.P.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ5MlHg5y2s
N.B. Should Holiers have two L's?
Yep, unless you mean something holy
Holliers seems right to me.
Never did go to Butlin's, but spent my youthful Summers either on a farm or at a beach.
Looking back they seem like very good times ....... I wonder if I thought so back then 0 -
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The holliers of my childhood were on the east coast of northern England - our nearest coast. Scarborough, Skegness, Bridlington and Cleethorpes. Some of the coldest, windiest coastline in England! We would have a week in a caravan or occasionally a 'chalet'. One chalet I remember was not much more than a garden shed, I remember sleeping in a top bunk a few inches from the wooden ceiling
Contrary to the - apparently - usual childhood memories of sunshine, I have no memories of anything other than rain, and perishing cold rain at that. Though I do recall dashing out of the sea after a swim, blue with cold but not really concerned or surprised about it. My younger sister and I would be bought comics and colouring books to keep us occupied, and we would sometimes go and put pennies in the slot machines - the only time in the year this happened. You could keep going with a shillings worth of pennies for quite a long time, till it was finally all gone. I remember one holiday when mum won a teaset - no idea what she was playing - it was very exotic as it was quite a nice shape and each set of the six sets of cup saucer and plate were a different, quite attractive colour. Very swish in the '50s.
One year we went by train - maybe more but I only remember one - a steam train with the carriages that had leather straps to let down the windows, and two small pictures of scenery above the opposite seat. We had squashy tomato sandwiches - I always thought of them as 'train sandwiches' after that. Other times we went in the sidecar of my dad's motorbike. I don't recall anymore than one suitcase for the four of us, dad wore his 'good suit' for the week so all he needed was a couple of shirts - he would throw caution to the wind and dispense with his tie, on the beach.
Our parents would hire a couple of deckchairs and we would be bought a tin bucket and a spade with a wooden handle - different colours to prevent arguments! Oh, and little glass dishes of cooked shrimps from a stand on the prom. You had to give back the dish. There were cockles and mussels as well, but I didn't like them. I'm sure there were other special holiday treat foods, but I cannot quite recall them. An icecream wafer sandwich was one - when did cones become popular?0 -
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Santino Nice Seafarer wrote: »This probably sounds like something from Monty Python
That'll never get old
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Some of ye here were very posh indeed! Butlin's was common because it was common for the poorer of us working classes to go there for our holliers.
After two holidays in Butlin's as a child I didn't have another holiday for many years, until after I was married in fact. No, not even a honeymoon! 0 -
Jellybaby1 wrote: »Some of ye here were very posh indeed! Butlin's was common because it was common for the poorer of us working classes to go there for our holliers. After two holidays in Butlin's as a child I didn't have another holiday for many years, until after I was married in fact. No, not even a honeymoon!
we went on day trips but there was no way the mother was staying!:D 0 -
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