A photo from Caroline

Thanks to Caroline for this photo of Spike, Caroline herself, Ted Law and Eileen taken in Mobys 1976.

Old Stuff from Tossa

Here's a photo with a difference from 1950, it shows Ava Gardner with Frank Sinatra (lighting his cig!)  who she was married to at the time of filming 'Pandora and the Flying Dutchman' at Tossa de Mar.

Read the story here.... 

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

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Lloret de Mar old scenes

Always popular are the photos which show the old scenes from Lloret, so here we have a few more some of which show the 5* Rigat Hotel grounds in Fenals

Photos from Nel

I've received two photos from Nel from 1972-73.
Nel has given me names of some of those in the pics....
Joe, Keith, Mick, Mel and Bob, third on the left in both photos is Derek (McGroovy) Wingate who has been mentioned on the site quite a few times.....does anyone know where Derek is these days?

A few more from Frank

Heres a few more photos from Franks Facebook collection...

 Here he is topping up the colour to his freckles on the beach wall with Aunty Jean!

Great beach party scene!

More from Caroline

 

The photos I published on the 11th March from Caroline were very popular judging by the comments that came in...so here we have the rest of Caroline's photos.
Can we have some more comments about these....where, when and who!
One person I think I recognise is a young Graeme in the football pics?

 

Graham's Photo's

 Thanks to everyone who has recently sent in photos after I asked for some more, please keep them coming no matter what they are or what year. Today we have four photos from Graham Jenkins, I've no other details of where Graham worked but his photos are from the early 70s...it maybe a bit too early for most of you to remember the people in the photos. 

The 1st photo above Graham says is El Uva 1973, could that be La Uva or were there two bars with similar names?

 These two are from 1971 El Cortijo 

 The last photo is from PP's Disco 1970

Photos from Frank

 Thanks to Frank for these photos, I have a feeling that 1 or 2  have been on the site before but it is quite a while ago now.

Gerry' Bar

Great costumes!

Carolines Pics

 Thanks to Caroline for sending these photos....who remembers the Moby Dick looking like this??

Brads photo's

 Three more photos from Brad today, The Ist one is from the staff and customers in the Prince of Wales ... is that Tony Batey with the beard?

In the 2nd photo are Spud & Brian who used to deliver to pubs owned by a German guy called Edgar, does anyone where he is these days?
3rd photo is Brads first holiday to Lloret in 1970.

A new story from David

Hi Jackie
Its been a while since last contact and as things seem a bit quiet thought I would tell you about my first winter in Lloret.
For all you living in Lloret there’s no need to tell you it can get COLD during the winter months and as so many places cater for the summer heat it can be a bit miserable at times!!!
Well in the 70s Thomsons used to sent the “golden oldies” to Lloret by the plane load for anything up to 3 months, dead cheap all staying at what was then the San Marti Park hotel now called “Don Juan” also 2 other hotels adjacent now part of “Guitart” but then called “San Marti dos” & Felipe3.
It was hilarious on arrival days because everyone wanted a room with sun well obviously all the people who had arrived the weeks before had grabbed them, so every week on Friday morning it was room change, the queue went out the door!!!! One lot would take a key go inspect the new room and if it was better swap their original key, they were told they had 10 mins to change as others were waiting for their original room, and so it went on people dragging half opened cases up and down stairs trying to find Perfection for the 3 months of bliss??? On their winter break.
The antics they got up to during their stay were something else, they were on half board basis so the waiters at breakfast literally did a search as they left the dining room, confiscating bread rolls, jam, tea bags, butter. Their rooms represented a cafe with wardrobe drawers being used to prepare lunch with all the ill-gotten gains from breakfast or any other place they could get “freebees” from.
I told all your readers before about the time one old boy set the hotel on fire by putting his electric cup tea heater in his bed because it was cold, that was life for my first winter in Lloret.
I’ll tell you next time about when one dear old soul passed away and me conducting the funeral? A sad but hilarious time
Kindest regards

David Buckland

TV company asking for help.

I've been contacted by Josh at Finestripe a Glasgow based TV company asking for help in tracing anyone who was involved with the very first Club 18-30 holidays in the late 60s and early 70s to Lloret de Mar. It seems they have plans to make a programme which will focus on the early days of the 18-30 holidays and the changes this type of holiday brought, so if anyone can help please get in touch and I'll pass on your details or I can give you an email address for Josh.....this is the forth time that a TV company has asked for our help so I'm sure we can help them once again and possibly give Lloret de Mar a bit of good publicity!

Below is copy of the email I received...

Hi Jackie,

I am emailing from Finestripe Productions, a TV company based in Glasgow. 

We are currently developing a programme about the very first ever Club 18-30 holiday in 1965 to Lloret de Mar and we are trying to track down anyone that happened to be on those very early holidays. I wonder if you might be able to tell me if there is anyone you know of that might have been on them or alternatively anyone has posted on your site mentioning this sort of time period?

If you have any questions, feel free to ask and our website can be found at www.finestripe.com

Brad's Photos

Thanks to Brad for sending in these photos from 1973 and as Brad says , ''Where did that 40 years go?"

1st photo- Staff and customers at the Prince of Wales
2nd photo Brian, Brad and the boys from Duke of York
In the 3rd photo at the back are Billy, Jimmy, Brad, Yvonne, and Pat
At the front are Spud & Pat