Lloret Beach

Todays photos go back to the year 1984 - 85 - 89 with Tony's photos. With the first one showing the fairly packed beach in 1984. This summer Lloret beach has been packed with visitors to the town with hardly enough space to lay your beach towel if you arrive too late!
For some reason though the people who are here just now dont spend anything and all the local bars are having a really tough time. Where's all the old holidaymakers like yourselves who used to come to Lloret in the old days and spend money in the bars....they dont seem to exist anymore!

Tony's next picture with Derek was taken in 1989, and his last one is from the year 85' in the Highwayman.

Photos from 'Mr T'

More from Alan's selection of photos today, sorry about the poor quality of the 2nd one (I did manage to improve it slightly) but it would have been a shame not to publish it because of this!
As you can see it was taken in the old Rabbies, and the 2nd one showing lots of smiling faces outside the Londoner!

Alan is currently doing airport transfers, for anyone visiting the area, you can find his phone number at the left hand side where it says ''Reliable Airport Transfers''

The Buccaneer

The photos today were sent in by Paul, on the site he is registered as 'Boxer Boy'
The year is 1983 for both photos. Paul has given most names for the photos, can you help out with the others?

Pic 1 - Buccaneer

Pic 2 - Buccaneer
L-R ?, Gary, Sally, ?, Rob, Bob, ?, Paul (Boxer Boy) top right.

More Photos from Shuggy

Thanks to Shuggy for his latest batch of photos, with something a little bit different this time...instead of being in a bar they are on a boat to the Canaries!

Phils Photos

Thanks to Phil for todays photos which he sent about 3 weeks ago, just before he went off to Canada to work, he also sent the details for each one....


''Group Photo
Allan Highland, Rab O'Neil, Ian Wilson, Rab Carrick, Allan McNicoll, and me. The rest are my family.
''2nd Pic shows Jimmy, Ian Wilson and me.''


''This is Frankie Murry and me at the door of Geminis the year it opened. 74 I think.''

Johns Photos.

Thanks to John for sending these photos in. John is now living in Fuengirola and has a very nice bar called 'Bar One' .... hope your still doing well down there John. We'll be down your way in January again so will see you then sometime!
John, on one of your comments you said that you had sent me a good photo of you and Spike in the Polynesian Bar, is that one published here?

Michelle's Album

Thanks to Michelle for these photos she recently sent in for the blog, I wonder how she is coping in Valencia with this hot spell we are now having in Spain. Temperatures in Lloret have been higher than ever just lately. It was 31º down in Lloret at 10am yesterday morning, I then heard that a couple of hours later it was 37º in Fenals and in Tordera it was 42º ... with no sign of it cooling down yet!

Photos From Rode Tomaat & White Horse.

Here's an excellent selection of photos from Vilma going back to 1982-83, from the Rode Tomaat and also the White Horse. Vilma has added the names along with each photo.

Mock Wedding

This morning we have 2 more photos from Sooty, these were taken at the 'Mock Wedding' with what looks like some very strange bridemaids!

Were you invited ?

Cerdanya again.

These photos were recently sent in by someone....who I cant say, but here is what he said in his email !

"I have just seen Sooty's photo outside the cerdana in paris square ( or used to be ) and had to send you one that was taken inside on the same day see if anyone recognizes the two faces (t'shirt will probably be a dead give away ). The smaller photo is of the londoner staff circa 1976 ish"


Any Guesses??

Photos from 1984 & 89

Here we have more photos from Tony, the top one is from the year 1989.

The last two were both taken in the same year 1984, with the one below taken outside the Texas Saloon.


The last photo was to celebrate Davey McGuigans birthday and I believe was taken at Ramons??
I met Davey who was in Lloret along with his old friend Steve...they caught up with each other through the Old Stuff site after loosing contact years ago, which was good news!

I have now received quite a few more photos after my 'begging letter' the other day, thanks to all who sent more in. I'll get round to using them shortly but I still do have a few of your older ones yet to publish.

Photos From Tony & Steve.

The top two photos were brought over by Tony when he came on a quick visit to Lloret a few weeks ago. Tony's 1st one as you can see from the T shirts is Rockerfellers and info he gave for the 2nd one is - Aussie Steve, two Pauls from Bradford taken in Yates 1985.
The last of todays photos was sent in by Steve and is from 1977. Here is what Steve said in his email...
"I worked in Lloret '75 and 76, Yates, Less Brasses (now a Japanese restaurant) Paddy's bar, Bier Keller and The Yellow Submarine (that's where the photo was taken) My sister, Caroline, also worked there at the same time, printing T shirts for Ted (Moby Dick). My parents now live there and we are often over for short breaks, often meeting in the Barratina's and having a chin wag with Fiona"

Heres a Good One!

Thanks to Diane for sending this through on behalf of Sooty, who came over from Majorca (loaded down with old photos!) this weekend to join in with Colins birthday celebration.

Two Parties and One Birthday!

Colin & Angie.

Colin from Gerry's Bar had his 60th Birthday this week, celebrated by 2 parties.
His birthday was 7th July and the celebration started during the day with a variety of sandwiches and chicken pieces etc all set out on the pool table.
Then yesterday (Saturday) was a massive BBQ out in the garden. All the meat was cooked by the local Argentinean lads who did a great job, and made sure that everyone was kept well supplied with food and drinks!
We all had a fantastic day out... thanks to everyone who helped out!


Sooty, Mary, Christine & Marion.





Frank & Mary.


Rod & Christine.

Christine & Lynne.

Marion & Maggie.

Daz with Stian who was one of many who came all the way from Norway.

Paul & Gaz, both former workers of Gerry's Bar.

Mr T's Photos.

Alan has kindly lent some of his photos for the blog. The top one is from 1982, but which bar is it?

The bottom one was taken in Churchills in 1981.
Could that be Garry from the Sportsman sticking his head in the photo on the right?

Vilma's Photos

These photos from Vilma show the Piccadilly, White Horse and the Laurel & Hardy. Just about every person in the photos has been named by Vilma, do any of you remember those she hasn't named?