NOTES ON

1962 Holiday in Devon

http://comp.uark.edu/~dsears/photos/1962 devon/

http://comp.uark.edu/~dsears/photos/1962eileendevon/

From the photographs in our two albums, it seems that Mum was interested in the family and camping, I was interested in the sites.

When we turned into teenagers, days-out were not enough and Mum and Dad booked two-week holidays outside the southeast. First came Devon, Goodrington, near Paignton, and a campsite separated from the sea by a railway line with steam trains. The steam trains were not part of British Railways, but a ride for tourists. We also booked coach tours, to Exeter, Dartmoor, and Torquay. On the Dartmoor tour the driver told a joke about a colleague of his who spared a bee who had got caught in his wipers. When out of petrol in the middle of no where, the bee came to his rescue by filling his petrol tank with BP. That’s one of my memories from the Devon holiday.

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