Out and About pics..

[muky-kid.]

:D Evening all. I work for a large printing firm in Manchester and at the moment im the only delivery driver, which means i get to go to some places ive never been before, like today. This morning i went to a place in Wales called Talacre which is right on the coast and i had to deliver some printed flyers.  :shock:  My god this was a posh Caravan Park Five star facilitys and certainly wouldnt mind staying there one day. :D

Anyway whilst i was in the area i had a drive around in my van and i took some pics on my mobile, which got me thinking. Ill put a folder in my Gallery titled Out and About Pics in Van. for putting pics in of places,things or anything out of the ordinary i come across whilst doing my job.
Yes i get bored easily, and now ill bore everyone else with my pics. But i think ill take my other camera as my phone pics arent very clear.

 :D I get to go to places alover the u.k, but more often than not its just journeys to Yorkshire,Manchester,Liverpool and Derbyshire.
And i often see nice,funny,differant or strange things which ide like to share with you lot....  :? That cleared the Bar quick  :lol:
First pics in gallery now, dont worry only a phew from this morning.
http://members.mud-club.com/profiles/muky-kid./gallery/Out%20and%20About%20in%20Van.
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[Andy the Landy]

Hiya Muky - Stayed there a few years ago as my mates sister has a caravan on there. At the top of the road there used to be a really cheap cafe - full monty breakfast with black pudding for 3 quid :D . Wonder if she'd let us borrow the van for a weekend laning trip :-k . I'll see what I can sort out

[muky-kid.]

Hiya Muky - Stayed there a few years ago as my mates sister has a caravan on there. At the top of the road there used to be a really cheap cafe - full monty breakfast with black pudding for 3 quid :D . Wonder if she'd let us borrow the van for a weekend laning trip :-k . I'll see what I can sort out

 :lol: Yep the cheap greasey spoon is still there, well i had to have a brew and a butty whilst i was there.
Whilst at the camping park ( which was like Fort Knox ) i was esscorted round by a very nice young lady. The facilitys are second to none its got the lot Bars Resturants Kiddies play area with a machine which you climb into and a huge fan lifts you off the deck and you can fly I WANTED A GO but she woudnt let me  :(  Its that posh whilst driveing around the site with my staff passenger if we came to a customer i had to stop and switch the engine of till they were out of sight. She said some of the Caravans were upto £100.000 worth and shes proberbly right lookin at some of them. Well worth a visit i think. And i spotted a couple of greenlanes nearby. :D

[muky-kid.]

Hiya Muky - Stayed there a few years ago as my mates sister has a caravan on there. At the top of the road there used to be a really cheap cafe - full monty breakfast with black pudding for 3 quid :D . Wonder if she'd let us borrow the van for a weekend laning trip :-k . I'll see what I can sort out

 :lol: Yep the cheap greasey spoon is still there, well i had to have a brew and a butty whilst i was there.
Whilst at the camping park ( which was like Fort Knox ) i was esscorted round by a very nice young lady. The facilitys are second to none its got the lot Bars Resturants Kiddies play area with a machine which you climb into and a huge fan lifts you off the deck and you can fly I WANTED A GO but she woudnt let me  :(  Its that posh whilst driveing around the site with my staff passenger if we came to a customer i had to stop and switch the engine of till they were out of sight. She said some of the Caravans were upto £100.000 worth and shes proberbly right lookin at some of them. Well worth a visit i think. And i spotted a couple of greenlanes nearby. :D  The van needs a snorkle though... :lol:

[Bush Tucker Man]

Nothing on WetRoads forTalacre, perhaps you ought to e-mail the location

This is the only likely looking candidate from trying to match yout phot to the map (I assume it's the railway bridge?)

[muky-kid.]

Nothing on WetRoads forTalacre, perhaps you ought to e-mail the location

This is the only likely looking candidate from trying to match yout phot to the map (I assume it's the railway bridge?)

Almost right, heres were i was. The road leads to an old dissused works. Yep took wrong turn before i found the right one for the Campsite. :oops:

[muky-kid.]

:D Yep ive been at it again with my camera. This time i had a trip to Clevedon, near Weston-super-mare just of the M5. Never been before so i took some pics of bits of the coastal road and beach in Clevedon. 8)  Some pics are a bit dodgy not very clear, but some are o.k. The weather was brilliant and warm. Left Manchester at 9:30am with cab heater on and jacket. By the time ide reached the Black Country the Sun was out,jacket and heater off. :D  Whilst i was walking around the small beach ide found i could feel the Sun burning on my arms. Now why cant Manchester be more like this. :lol:

 :D Anyway Clevedon looks like a great place to visit. Quite little coastal town with old victorian buildings and even an outdoor natueral swimming pool on the beach. Not seen one of these since i was a nipper when we used to go to Morecombe for our hols  :lol: . Pics below..  :D

http://members.mud-club.com/profiles/muky-kid./gallery/Out%20and%20About%20in%20Van./1

[robbie]

I first went to Talacre when I was 18 in my Cortina Mk2..... I drove to the beach area and noticed some Beetle buggies on the other side of what seemed like a firm area.....

Yeeh you guessed it, is was soft sand and they had mad eit cos of their large fat tyres...... We tried it and got a few feet into the sand and very nearly got stuck..... Much to the amusement of the lads ont eh other side...

Dont think it would be a problem now but the 145/13 tyres just weren't upto the job... always a tyre thing aint it :)

[strapping young lad]

which docks would you have seen on the m5?

[Bush Tucker Man]

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even an outdoor natueral swimming pool on the beach. Not seen one of these since i was a nipper when we used to go to Morecombe for our hols  :lol: . Pics below..  :D

I think you meant the Bare pool at Morecambe. It's actually a man-made (concrete & stone) pool.
That's if we're thinking of the same one, this one is up the road a few hundred yards towards Happy Mount park.
Anyway, have a look here for some memories of Morecambe :D

Seaside Holidays (Morecambes Midland Hotel & the Lido feature here)

Midland Hotel

Winter Gardens


Twentieth Century Society

Morecambe Album 1

Morecambe Album 2 (Super Swimming Stadium in this one)

Also, 2 albums of Morecambe on my 'Webshots'.

[muky-kid.]

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even an outdoor natueral swimming pool on the beach. Not seen one of these since i was a nipper when we used to go to Morecombe for our hols  :lol: . Pics below..  :D

I think you meant the Bare pool at Morecambe. It's actually a man-made (concrete & stone) pool.
That's if we're thinking of the same one, this one is up the road a few hundred yards towards Happy Mount park.
Anyway, have a look here for some memories of Morecambe :D

Seaside Holidays (Morecambes Midland Hotel & the Lido feature here)

Midland Hotel

Winter Gardens


Twentieth Century Society

Morecambe Album 1

Morecambe Album 2 (Super Swimming Stadium in this one)

Also, 2 albums of Morecambe on my 'Webshots'.

 :oops: Erm. my mistake. It was in Llandudno not Morecombe. Sorry i was only about 5 at the time. :lol: Ive had lots of alcahol and sleep since then. :lol:  Great pics though, did bring memmorys back of childhood hols.

[muky-kid.]

which docks would you have seen on the m5?

 :?  I think it was Portishead docks or Avonmouth that i could see on the way back up the M5 between jnts 20 and 17.

[strapping young lad]

ah right cos i was wondering what docks you would see going back on the m5 if you were leaving wales as the m4 is above avonmouth

but yes those are the docks u see in the bristol channel

saw these years ago when i went to drop the wife of (girlfriend back then) at poole harbour to catch the cat to jersey

that trip took a while from ponty i can tell you!

then a week later pick her up at 2am from weymouth!

sheesh!