Can we help Ross?

 
Ross has sent in this email wanting any info about his uncle Roy Jennings who worked in Lloret in the 80s. He has come across a photo of him on the site, which you can see by scrolling back to 17th December.
If anyone out there can give any information about Roy please leave a comment under this post....it would be nice to fill in a few gaps for Ross's family at this time of year.

I have just stumbled across your 'Lloret De Mar Old Stuff' site by accident tonight whilst trying to research the area in the 80's.
My uncle used to live and work in Lloret in the mid to late 70's through to the mid 80's.
Sadly he died in Lloret in 1986 and I'm trying to find people that may of known him well and may have information about his life and death.?

Weirdly by a unbelievable coincidence he is in a photo that was posted earlier this month by a Brian!!!!
I have commented to ask about him on the photos comments.

I wanted to contact you to see if you may be able to help me please?
I've never used blogging style sites but I was wondering if you could do a general announcement to call to anybody that uses your site for information on my uncle.?

Sorry if this is asking too much but I really want to find more about him and his life.
My grandparents were too hurt and didn't handle losing him very well so they played ignorant as their way of dealing with it, leaving us knowing very little.
Even my father his brother doesn't seem too informed about his Spanish life and it being so many years later his memory isn't helping!

Hope you can help me.

Happy new year.

Regards,
Ross.

Para Alan update

I've been asked to put out a brief statement about what we know so far about Alan's death. As most of us know he had been unwell for quite a long time now, but just recently had not been coming out of his home. People have been nipping up there to make sure he was ok on a daily basis.
On the 27th there was no reply at the door the police were called and they found him in his bed. He had been dead for 24hours or less. The case has now been passed over to the British Consulate, and it's up to them to find any relatives. He did have sisters but no body knows of their whereabouts. It is hoped that they can be traced as we all hope he can have a proper service with his ashes scattered out at sea.

Sad news at Christmas

'Para' Alan on the right in the photo above

 Sorry to be breaking more bad news... but we have just heard the terrible news that Alan (para) has died today at his home in Lloret after a long illness. I'll give more details later when I hear any thing.
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Old Lloret Scenes

I hope you all had a great day yesterday and your not all suffering too much this morning!

I'vestill got several photos from the exhibition of old pics that was in Lloret a few weeks ago, so just a bit of a guessing game today with these street scenes.....it shouldn't be too hard.

How many of you remember staggering up and down
these steps?

The bar on this street is called ??

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Photos from ??

Thanks to (l wont say who) for passing on these not so old photos, they show 3 people having a fantastic time meeting up for the first time in 30 years ... but can anyone name them?

A special message

I've had an email from Pat Murphy asking if l could pass on some information about Peter Piper, so here's a copy of his message....

Hi Jackie,
Pat Murphy here, hope you and yours are well, I didn't make the re-union this year but hopefully 2012 fingers crossed. Could you do me a favour could you let anyone or everyone who knew him that Graham Heywood aka THE PUFF aka Peter Piper who sang with Jeff Fartuncle in the Duke of York amongst other things is alive and well and appearing alongside Shane Ritchie in Aladdin at the Cliffs Pavillion in Southend on Sea. He said he's lost touch with a lot of people but sends everyone his regards and wishes them well and hopefully I can talk him into going to the next re-union. He has been on the website but doesn't quite know how to use it. Anyone going on a cruise this year look out for Peter Piper.
 
Many thanks Jackie have a very merry christmas and a happy new year same applies to anyone who knows me.
 
Cheers Pat

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Happy Christmas

I just want to wish you all a very Happy Christmas and all the best for 2012. It was lovely to meet everyone who came to this years reunion, I'm sure l'll be seeing a few of you here again before the next! 

Thanks to everyone who has sent in photos for the 'Old Stuff' and also thanks to all who kept us amused and entertained by posting comments! Lots more Old Photos still to come over the holiday, but please still keep sending them in, so we can keep the blog going.
Love & Best Wishes to all from Jackie xx

(Click on the pic to view the Xmas Card)

Bargain Book?

Can anyone remember the Bargain Book?

 Many thanks to David Buckland  (ex Thompson rep) who has been in touch and sent in theses copies of pages from a book which was given out to tourist in the 70s, heres what David says -

"Here for your dear followers is a bit of Lloret history “The Bargain Book”

It was sold by reps for pocket money for several years in the early 70s

It was very popular and encouraged visitors to visit the special bars listed in either Calella or Lloret

It was the brain child of a super guy called Barry Clifford who also ran the popular

Night excursion called “Discotour” which I guided often, we used to lose a few

guests at each disco we stopped at!!! Eventually returning (what was left of us?) to Lloret for a quick dash to the Moby Dick Disco"

Brian Photos

Thanks to Brian for theses photos! I'm sure we all recognise a few of the faces on here!

(lots more to come yet!)

Does anyone remember Brian?

Brian recently got in touch after just finding the 'Old Stuff' he worked in Lloret for just one season in 1980 at Topo 't' Tops, a few words from Brian - 

"I'm the one in green next to cyril !!.l've got some more somewhere with Malc Coombes on ,just need to find them out . l then went on to work in Kassiopi in Corfu for 7 summers. now have had a bar in Nerja for almost 9 years, Cyril pops in when he´s down this way"

Photos from Sue Vale

Todays photos from Sue date back to the early 70s. Sue, Harry and Sandra are in the top photo can we put any more names to the faces?

ln the next pics Sue & Sandra are pictured with friends outside the lstanbul Club.

Mariano's Photos

Thanks to Mariano for  these photos - the top 2 both from 1973 in the Western Saloon (Yates as we know it now!) and Mariano says that it was taken just a few hours after it was closed down by the police, then about 3-4 weeks later the Londoner was also closed down.

Not one house built on Roca Grossa yet!

Ray Morris

Ray has recently been in contact with me asking about the Captains Arms where he worked for Tony Batey in the early 60s. He sent an email which I've forwarded to Oscar one of Tony's son's, so after more than 40yrs l'm sure they'll be in contact with each other shortly. Tony has a few photos of Ray and the Captains Arms for the site so l'll be posting them on here as soon as l get them.
Is there anyone else out there who remembers Ray? If so he would love to hear from you.

Ray has sent this photo with the caption...."You don't see too many bass saxophones like this one.RayMorris1963 from Brisbane Australia"

 

Maureens Photos

Three more from Maureen today....there she is on the booze again in the 1st one !

Can we put any names to the 2nd photo?

In the last one Maureen (on the left) - does anyone know the name of the young lady she is with?

Aunty Jeans Photos

 Two fantastic photos from Jean today, I'm not sure of the year...probably about 1958/59.

In the photo with the car Jean is with the head waiter Miguel and 2 cooks from the hotel.

Wherever Jean goes she is hardly ever without a camera, and if you ever visit Jean at home she will get out her photograph albums to show you, but its impossible to see them all - she must have hundreds! All of her albums are in perfect order & dated and she knows exactly where to find which ever one's she is looking for! Amazing !!
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Photos from Eddie

Andy , Pete , Babs ,Eddie , Maurico de Mingo ( Maurice ) and Paul ( Burge )

 Many thanks to Eddie for sending these photos both featuring the West Coast where Eddie worked back in the mid 70s. More of Eddie's photos later in the week!

Here's a couple of lines from Eddie's email -

"I have been on the site for about a year now and think its brilliant , thought you might be able to use  some of these  . I worked in the Coral and West Coast around 1975 after having had a season on the beach"

Ian ( room - mate and Christines above Coral ) Pete , Me , Maurice and  Andy

Back to the 'Old Scenes'

 

Todays photos again feature the old street scenes of Lloret, the one from 1950 l think looks like the old Tea Shop street ?? or maybe around that area. 

I've no idea where Placa de Verdura is so l tried a searching on the net and all it came up with was the local fruit and veg shop!

Any ideas?

More from Maureen

 We have more of Maureens photos today, in the first taken at Tossa are Martin, Jimmy and Tony Woods.

1976 - Maureen helping herself to the wine at the BBQ!

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Mariano's Photos

 Here we have another selection of photos sent in by Mariano...all from the 70s.