Gone - but not forgotten!
Coming down The Rest-and-be-Thankful this week I recalled that there was once a Club site at Ardgarten. It got me wondering about other "lost" sites and the memories people had of them. What are YOUR memmories?
Do I remember correctly that there was once a Blackpool North site?
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I think Blackpool is still there!
We have stayed on Newcastle Race Course, Elvaston Castle, Folkestone Racecourse, Brighton Race Course, Braithwaite Fold, Stanmore Hall (or something like that), Houghton Mill. all of which are no longer campsites or no longer run by the Club. There are probable more which I can't think of.
David
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Leverton Park at Truro is now a Wickes and other various shops.
It was put to better use as a site.
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"I think Blackpool is still there!"
Isn't that Blackpool South?
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Leverton Park at Truro is now a Wickes and other various shops.
It was put to better use as a site.
Write your comments here...It was a smashing site ,we stopped there by chance one Christmas before living in Cornwall and we loved it despite us both being poorly.
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We've stopped at Bangor Racecourse, as well as Elverston Castle, Ardgartan and Stanmore (Lutterworth), no more alas.
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Hexham Racecourse, Wetherby Racecourse, Ladycross Plantation, all gone from Club network. In two weeks time, we say a very sad goodbye to Much Wenlock!
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Hexham Racecourse, Wetherby Racecourse, Ladycross Plantation, all gone from Club network. In two weeks time, we say a very sad goodbye to Much Wenlock!
Write your comments here...Gosh never realised Wetherby used to be a club site , we were just there last week parked up for an hour whilst waiting to go to the vets'.
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Part of the Trax network, you can still stop up at Hexham, run by Racecourse now. Ladies facilities are ok, but the gents are as they were 32 years ago. They were ropey then, ropey still, but a fabulous location. Ladycross Plantation is a private site now
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A couple of years ago I posted a photo of the green plaques of some of the sites that had closed that we had stayed on.
It's here somewhere but I cannot find it.
From memory there were Ribby Hall Preston, Hawkhill Camp overlooking Dover, Ardgartan, Scotland, Port William, Scotland. Might have been a few more
Ladycross and Braithwaite Fold
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It was a lovely ste at Ardgarten.On the river side with views down the loch. We used it a lot and the only one in that area. Noticed it closed and went into disrepair. The CC & C had a site on theother side of the river. No idea why it closed.
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Coming down The Rest-and-be-Thankful this week I recalled that there was once a Club site at Ardgarten. It got me wondering about other "lost" sites and the memories people had of them. What are YOUR memmories?
Do I remember correctly that there was once a Blackpool North site?
I'm from Blackpool and I don't ever remember there being a Caravan Club site in the north area of Blackpool.
Maybe somebody else knows.
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It was a lovely ste at Ardgarten.On the river side with views down the loch. We used it a lot and the only one in that area. Noticed it closed and went into disrepair. The CC & C had a site on theother side of the river. No idea why it closed.
Midges ate everyone. Nothing left
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I'm from Blackpool and I don't ever remember there being a Caravan Club site in the north area of Blackpool.
What I remember is towing to it along the then new access road from the motorway and looking down onto the other site that was, and still is, Blackpool South. However, my recolection is that Blackpool North wasn't in the north of Blackpool, just that it
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My wife, when touring as a child with her parents remembers fondly the club site near Derby at Elvaston Castle. A few years ago the site roads and pitches were still there though overgrown.
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Coed Helen springs to mind.
Coed Helen Closure
Published: 01 November 2011
Coed Helen Caravan Club Site closed for the winter season yesterday, 31 October. We regret to inform you that the management contract on this site has come to an end and therefore will be removed from the site network for the 2012 season.
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Coed Helen, that's another one closed in last four, five years then. I know Club has built and opened a couple in last few years, Barnard Castle and Bridlington, but surely time to spend a bit of the profits pot on another new Club owned site? Built from
scratch the Club could do something completely innovative, instead of piggy backing Morris Leisure and other AS sites. I suppose a lot depends on land costs though, and any local opposition.0 -
I'm from Blackpool and I don't ever remember there being a Caravan Club site in the north area of Blackpool.
What I remember is towing to it along the then new access road from the motorway and
looking down onto the other site that was, and still is, Blackpool South. However, my recolection is that Blackpool North wasn't in the north of Blackpool, just that it was north of the other one! And still south of the tower.When you say 'looking down onto the other site ...', I'm wondering if you're thinking of what is the traveller site which you can see from the elevated position of Yeadon Way leading from the end of the M55 into the centre of Blackpool as I'm pretty sure
that you can't actually see the Blackpool South site from the main road; only from Cropper Road itself.Perhaps my memory isn't what it was.
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you can see from the elevated position of Yeadon Way leading from the end of the M55 into the centre of Blackpool as I'm pretty sure that you can't actually see the Blackpool South site from the main road; only from Cropper Road itself.
Perhaps my memory isn't what it was.
Trees were smaller then! I remember the discussion with my fellow campers about there being two CC sites so close and I seem to have picked the right one as it was closer to the "attractions".
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you can see from the elevated position of Yeadon Way leading from the end of the M55 into the centre of Blackpool as I'm pretty sure that you can't actually see the Blackpool South site from the main road; only from Cropper Road itself.
Perhaps my memory isn't what it was.
Trees were smaller then! I remember the discussion with my fellow campers about there being two CC sites so close and I seem to have picked the right one as it was closer to the "attractions".
Indeed trees were smaller then and Wagon Wheels and Mars Bars were bigger then
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We loved Ardgarten - but only went the once. The midges! The worst we're ever experienced. Vast drifts of them by the toilet block walls in the morning.
I'll second or third that comment - horrendous to watch this grey cloud drift in and make life totally unbearable - we even lit citronella candles inside the van and thought stuff the soot on the ceiling, it'll wash off!
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We loved Ardgarten - but only went the once. The midges! The worst we're ever experienced. Vast drifts of them by the toilet block walls in the morning.
I'll second or third that comment - horrendous to watch this grey cloud drift in and make life totally unbearable - we even lit citronella candles inside the van and thought stuff the soot on the ceiling, it'll wash off!
Strangely midges have never troubled me even when others are being driven into a frenzy of neck slapping and arm waving etc. I remember at Bunree some 20 years ago watching some popoise swiming up from the sea. I was in a pair of very short shorts with no
top on watching with binoculars. Either side of me were two chaps, reeking of citron, light zip up tops with elasticated wrist bands, trouser legs stuffed inside socks and caps on tight. They were getting bitten to hell. Both retreated to their caravans and
one was promptly kicked out by his wife as he was covered in midges.
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You have just brought back a lot of memories having stayed at Elvaston Castle, and Stanford park lutterworth in the year they closed as CC sites. Others we used and some of you may remember include Ballikinrain Castle Killearn, Allanbank Greenloaning, The
Binns Linlithgow, Gosford Gardens Aberlady, Breakspear Way Hemel Hempstead, Ribby Hall Kirkham and Pontins Heysham Head. We also remember the midges at Ardgarten if its the same site which we have a plaque as River Croe Arrochar. I cannot remember a Blackpool
north site and the only site other than the travellers site I believe you could see from Yeadon way was the one at the back of Hampton road social club.0
