this is fantastic, worked at the fairground up seaton in 78 when i was 14, worked 14 hour days for 7 days a week (in school holidays) and earn 4 quid a week, haha, a was rich them days.all the rides shown i worked on at sum time or other, thanx for the memories!!!x
Lovely how life was so much quieter then. Adults and children just walked around silently enjoying life without yelling and screaming and arguing with each other.
As a kid, we often went to Seaton Carew - originally travelling from Grangetown to Middlesbrough, a bus to the Transporter Bridge, across that, then a Hartlepool bus from Port Clarence to Seaton Carew - my father was a member of something called Grangetown Tenants Association and every first Tuesday in August from about 1974 to about 1980, a fleet of Middlesbrough buses would converge on Seaton Carew for the annual Tenants' Trip - went across Newport Bridge - would have taken ages across the Transporter!
Remember it well. I was a kid in the 60's. We used to go to the swimming baths every Saturday and walk back across the bridge to town, to save the bus fare to spend on gob stoppers on the walk. When I was about 14 I had summer jobs in the bingo hall and at the newsagents and spent all my lunchtimes at the fairground.
I too was a kid back in the 1960's and although I did not live in the town at the time, we used to visit my Grand parents everySaturday. My Grand father used to take my brothers and me up to the Seaton Shows. I remember the Big Dipper, The GhostTrain ride. And who could forget Max Magic Joke shop. And is it just me, but the weather always seemed sunny back then.
The last week of July, 1961, it was reported that the sun shone for two consecutive days. Later, 1975, the same thing happened. The British government declared a drought as it never rained for a week.
this is absolutely brilliant, thanks soooo much for posting so many happy memories -:) remember riding on the "Peter Pan" railway at Funland. Fantastic
Longscar Hall. Savoury smell of chips and gravy. This must have been very late 60s, since the restaurant was only finished in 1967. I would have been 8 years old.
this is fantastic, worked at the fairground up seaton in 78 when i was 14, worked 14 hour days for 7 days a week (in school holidays) and earn 4 quid a week, haha, a was rich them days.all the rides shown i worked on at sum time or other, thanx for the memories!!!x
Ahhhhhh!!!!!!!
Those were the days!!!!!!
many happy times at seaton as a kid in the 60s
loved the old joke shop and the freezing cold salt water baths......wow i'm getting old.
They weren't as cold as the salt water sea!
Mac's Magic
Me too
I used to walk across that bridge with my brother when we were going to Seaton swimming baths. Good old days
Lovely how life was so much quieter then. Adults and children just walked around silently enjoying life without yelling and screaming and arguing with each other.
Couldn't agree more and no bagheads in site
Lovely footage...I love this town and remember the seaton shows very well indeed....
great stuff & seeing such places as the Longscar Hall & crazy golf really does make me realise how long ago it's been since I lived there!
As a kid, we often went to Seaton Carew - originally travelling from Grangetown to Middlesbrough, a bus to the Transporter Bridge, across that, then a Hartlepool bus from Port Clarence to Seaton Carew - my father was a member of something called Grangetown Tenants Association and every first Tuesday in August from about 1974 to about 1980, a fleet of Middlesbrough buses would converge on Seaton Carew for the annual Tenants' Trip - went across Newport Bridge - would have taken ages across the Transporter!
Brilliant. My home village, long before I was born, but with so many familiar landmarks. Thanks for posting.
I remember the ghost train way back in the late sixties, I was never away from Seaton ; I was from Billingham
Remember it well. I was a kid in the 60's. We used to go to the swimming baths every Saturday and walk back across the bridge to town, to save the bus fare to spend on gob stoppers on the walk. When I was about 14 I had summer jobs in the bingo hall and at the newsagents and spent all my lunchtimes at the fairground.
I too was a kid back in the 1960's and although I did not live in the town at the time, we used to visit my Grand parents everySaturday. My Grand father used to take my brothers and me up to the Seaton Shows. I remember the Big Dipper, The GhostTrain ride. And who could forget Max Magic Joke shop. And is it just me, but the weather always seemed sunny back then.
Great days going to seaton carew on the club trips from Aycliffe
The last week of July, 1961, it was reported that the sun shone for two consecutive days. Later, 1975, the same thing happened. The British government declared a drought as it never rained for a week.
this is absolutely brilliant, thanks soooo much for posting so many happy memories -:) remember riding on the "Peter Pan" railway at Funland. Fantastic
Longscar Hall. Savoury smell of chips and gravy. This must have been very late 60s, since the restaurant was only finished in 1967. I would have been 8 years old.
Love the coach.
thanks for sharing
"Shop at Binn's" Ha!
My mam worked at Binns in Hartlepool.
They had a bread and cakes department!
Best times shopping at binns was Christmas
i remember the Seaton Carew funfair in the 80s when did the funfair close