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Do you remember charabanc trips to the seaside?

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chicken Wed 16-Mar-16 10:16:23

Long, long ago just after the war, the primary school parents association used to organise a charabanc (what a nostalgic word) trip to the seaside . It was considered to be a real treat, but I dreaded it. Being a coach-sick child, I was nauseous after a few miles, then we would stop halfway there for a drink at a ramshackle roadside caff where the only thing on offer was bottles of violently orange fizzy pop. At the beach there was no shade and after a few hours of sun I was invariably burnt and, going home,would have a thumping headache and feel really ill. The next day, I would look like a boiled lobster and after a week or so,my skin would peel off in strips. What a treat that was.Of course, there was no sun cream then,just copious applications of calamine lotion after the event, and sunburn was considered to be healthy! My sister died at 60 of malignant melanoma and I often wonder if these early sunburns contributed to it.

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whitewave Sun 20-Mar-16 22:28:17

If their hey day was between the wars there would have some in use after the war. Ours had wooden slatted seats and was painted green. When thin upholstery was introduced it was quite posh. We did however live in darkest Cornwall and back then things were about 50 years behind the timesgrin

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Alea Mon 21-Mar-16 00:24:52

My point exactly, Penstemmon!

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absent Mon 21-Mar-16 04:34:18

I think I am too young to have travelled in a charabanc –and you have no idea how happy I am about that statement.

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kittylester Mon 21-Mar-16 06:46:33

absent grin - me too!

DD3 took her children to Wicksteed a couple of weeks ago - they loved it!

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Elrel Thu 31-Mar-16 20:28:01

Enjoying BBC4 'The Golden Age of Coach Travel'. Programme began with the real old charabancs, horse drawn and open to the weather. Great nostalgia for me when it got to the 1940s and 50s!

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Bellanonna Thu 31-Mar-16 23:36:21

I enjoyed that too eirel.
Well, whenever charabancs were actually on the road we, as children, called coaches by that name. Our teachers and parents were brought up with charabancs and presumably went on calling them that, so that's what we heard.

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