Tony Batey's photos

These are the last of the photos which Tony gave me for the blog......they certainly got the comments coming in!
When Tony gave me the photos he also gave a list of names and the bars where they were taken, but one name he just couldn't recall is the one to the right in the photo taken on the beach front...can anyone help out there?

New Photos - Old Friends !

Today we have 'new photos' of 'old friends' taken only last week.
Billy Hayes has kindly sent these photos of him and his partner taken with Shuggie and his wife in Australia. Billy said that as he doesn't think Shuggie will make next years reunion in Lloret they went to Australia to have their own!
It was the first time they had met in 30yrs, and I'm sure they must have had a great time.

Six from Sooty

Today we have six photos from Sooty's collection.
They are a bit on the small side owing to them all been scanned at the same time, so just click on them to get a closer look !

2 More from Roger

Here's two more from Rogers Lloret album......

Two from Piet

Many thanks to Piet who sent these 2 photos for the blog, here is a copy of his email which came with the pics...

hi Jackie,

Im Piet from the Netherlands and im sending you some pics which were made in the Prince of Wales in 1980 i think, because i remember they played the song Geno from the Dexys Midnight Runners all the time,(geno was a hit in 1980)
On pic IMG 3 im standing on the right side of the pic with the great staff of the pub and on pic 001 im the second from the right.



Ive read on ur great site that Alan is still around in lloret and i dont know what happened to the rest.
Especially i would love to know the where abouts of the girl on the pic ( Irene), maybe someone can tell me more about her.

Hopefully u like the pics, its really old stuff anyway:))
Geez i havent seen these pics for nearly 30 years but after a few minutes i have "the good old times " feeling already:)).

bye, bye and success with ur great old stuff site

Lots of greetings from a rainy Netherlands

Photos from Tony in Australia

Today I'm showing you more photos from Tony in Australia. The top one looks as though it could be taken in Lloret near the castle, but I'm not too sure though !

Tony has labeled the 2nd one as 'Monkey nuts'... He told me that when they used to walk through the fields down to Fenals beach from their hotel they were walking through crops of monkey nuts, so I suppose this is the farmer.
Silly question...any one out there recognise him ???


Tony's last photo here shows what looks like local boys with their dog, possibly taken down near the Town Hall?

Rogers Photos

Roger has just spent a few days in Lloret, and after hearing about the blog while he was here
has very kindly sorted through his photos when he got home and sent a very good selection through by post.

He hasn't got a computer so sadly wont be able to see them online or read your comments.

I don't have any details of faces or places so maybe you can help out here!

One from Scoo.

Here's one sent in by Scoo taken in Rockerfella's, in the photo are Sandra and Jo who worked for Intersun. Scoo wants to know..... where are they now ??

Jeans New Pics

Jean has just spent a few days in Lloret...yes, she still gets out here at least once a year. She has been coming for about 50yrs now!
She also brought some new photos as we have just about seen all the last ones she sorted out for us.
In the top one she is with Cyril which is from 1990, and the bottom one is taken in La Uva.

One more from Sooty.

There's loads of faces in this one, how many can you get? I've also received this same photo from Roger both of them can be seen in the front row. He doesn't see the site but he has just been to Lloret for a few days and posted some photos to publish, so more from him later.

Sooty's Collection

When Sooty came over to Lloret for Colin's birthday do last June she brought loads of her photos with her. She left them with Diane so that she could could get them all scanned and then forward them to me for the blog. Diane has now finished work for the season so has found time to send them all through, so here we go with the first few....
(click on the pics to enlarge)

Thanks again Diane !

Photos from Linda.

Thanks to Linda for sending us these photos.
I've included the info which she sent for them below.
Does anyone know the dogs name? Someone out there usually does when we've had dogs in previous photos!

1st) Winter in Yates - (back) Gail, Sue, Majella, ?, Linda (front) Paul, Norrie and Juan.
2nd) Elric photo girls - Sue, Janet, Linda, Linda and Kathy

More from Shuggie.

More photos from Shuggie today, in the last one is Conchita outside her place. Can any of you add any more names?

A Bit More Recent!

I have just recieved these phots from Colin and Doreen who spent a few years living in Lloret back in the 90s. In the 1st photo Colin is pictured along Stuart, in the next one isTommy (from the Navy Bar in Fenals) the last photo taken in the Barretina shows Fiona behind the bar, Colin stood on the right, Lynne, Omelet, Debbie & Christian. Could that be Colin Vinall in the bottom right of the photo?

Photos From Shuggie.

Thanks to Shuggie for sending in theses photos from La Cala taken back in 1976.

John McGuires Photos.

The 1st of Johns photos was taken taken in Western Saloon. With Johns 2nd photo he has a question............

"Now a query picture show a page in my old passport and shows an entrada and salida at Port Bou on the same day , I seem to remember we had to go out and back for some reason might have been to do with applying for a work permit?"

Could it be possibly anything to do with having to take a car out of the country? I seem to remember that back in the early days if you came over to Spain with a car it was only allowed to stay in the country for so long, otherwise you got a large fine for every day over the allowed time. So to avoid this most people just took them over the border to France and dumped them there, returning back to Spain in the same day.
Me and my husband were actually offered a car for free down in Torremolinos in 1976, just because the owner had to get it out of the country....could this have been the reason John?

Tony Porter's Selection.

If you can all remember the last time I published some of Tony's photos, I said that I was looking for some information about the 'old' Costa Encantada hotel for him. Well unfortunately so far I've had no luck about that, but I did speak to one person who was a very good source of info, (a long time ago his family used to own the Eugenia Hotel) He told me that the hotel Adriano (featured in one the the previous post's) he remembers very well. He showed me on a Lloret street map where it stood and nearly gave me the life story of the woman who owned it! She was an English woman called Mrs Hayes who's family also owned the Athene Hotel and also a travel company in London called Panorama...or something very similar. I've passed the news onto Tony, and told him that I will find out more for him if I can.

Again.......Fascinating Stuff !!

Today's photos are from the great selection sent in by Tony in Australia.
The first 2 here look to me as though they are on the promenade in front of the town hall?



This next one has me puzzled!
I .can't think where abouts in Lloret this could be...
I just don't recognise the building at the top of the steps, does anyone else have any idea.
Tony, if you see this maybe you could help us out??

I should think the 2 boys in the last photo will be Tony and his brother, looking out to sea at the boat.

Two More From Linda.

Linda gave some details of the people in the photos she sent, but I'm putting them on the site in a different order to how she sent them, so I hope I'm right in saying that these 2 are from La Cala in 1980. Please correct me if I'm wrong!

Tony Batey's Photos

Today we have another 2 of Tony Batey's photos, both of them feature Walter. Am I right in saying he was a genuine red indian ?

The year Tony gave for both is 1975, and the 2nd was taken in Las Cuevas.

Photos from Linda.

Thanks to Linda for sending a few of her photos in, Linda's surname is now Ely but you would all know her as Moult.
This 1st one is in Yates.

Linda gives the names as follows....Pat, Norrie, Linda and I think the one on the right is another Murphy brother not sure who the other guy is.

Photos from John McGuire

After my last post requesting more photos for the blog John McGuire has kindly sent these through. The top one is taken in the Mont Blanc.
The 2nd photo was taken in the Robin Hood with Freddie Puigmarti, John is the one on the right in the blue shirt.

Photos From Jean.

Sorry if you have seen these on the blog before, But I've had so many photos from Jean that I've lost track of what's been published and what hasn't.
Notes I have for these 2 are: it was Kevin's birthday celebration in the Mont Blanc.
I think I'm right in saying Jeans late husband Les is on the left in the blue T-shirt in the bottom photo?

I don't have all that many photos left now for the blog, so I'd appreciate it if any of you have suitable ones I could publish. Please send by email to the address which you can find by clicking on the link near my photo at the top of the column on the left....Thank-You.

Two More FromTony Batey

The top photo from Tony is from Las Cuevas, taken in 1975 with Tony Are Gisella and Ginko.
Las Cuevas has been closed for many years, but the building and name are still there!

Tony's next photo from Rabbies in 1971 features Pat & Daz, who chained the mad Scotsman to the wall ?

No Photos Today !!

Just a quick post ....
As you know, I've recently been looking for some information on the 'old' Costa Encantada Hotel where Tony in Australia used to stay with his family back in the 50s and early 60s. I did manage to get a little more news for him today, along with a copy of this old brochure which may be of interest to everyone else... click on the pics to enlarge and look at the prices!
I'll give more details later of where I found this and what I found out for him so far.

More from Tony Porter in Australia.

Today I'm showing you more photos from Tony in Australia. If you remember from his last photos and email he is looking for some info on the original Costa Encantada hotel which he believes stood on the same site as the 'new' one which is in Fenals today. I received another email from Tony yesterday in which he gives some more details of the hotel and the then owner - Antonio Drets, does his name sound familiar to any of you?
The above photo must be another of the hotels in Lloret, The Adriano.
Photos below, going by Tony's description are the Costa Encantada.

This is part of Tony' recent email....

Re the hotel’s location, I’ve only stated it was on the same site as the current hotel because someone else told me that. The road I don’t remember, but the hotel itself sat on a rise, with a winding ‘terraced’ driveway up from the road.

I know that the trip to the main Lloret beach was a cab ride, but if we turned off the road and walked along dirt roads through the fields (and a lot of ‘scrub’ with a sort-of aniseed-fennel aroma in summer) we’d come in 5-10 minutes to what we considered our own private beach. I’ve assumed, by looking at the map, that it must have been Fenals – but if it turns out the hotel was in the other direction, then maybe it was a different stretch of beach. I can tell you it was a very small cove, littered with fishing boats much like the main beach, but much more secluded and private, with rocky access to the sand.

Antonio Drets was a portly, jovial man, and made a huge fuss of me because we shared the same name. I don’t remember his wife, but the daughters were always around and we sometimes played with them - mostly the youngest, Anna-Marie. (If I said Maria in an earlier email, I was confusing her with a maid at the hotel who ‘doubled’ as our baby-sitter when my parents were out carousing with the locals and other tourists.) The name of an older sister, Mercedes, stuck because it was the same as the car!

Maybe I should open my own page somewhere – but I fear the technology might defeat me! Silly, really, given that I’ve made a career as a journo (among other things such as acting), so all this tacky stuff should be second-nature. Maybe if I was 14.....

Cheers,

Tony P.

These are From 1984

This time we are only going back to 1984 with photos from Tony, who is on the left in the top photo. The photo was taken in the Highwayman, am I right saying it's Lloret's very own 'George Micheal' in the front of the photo ?

Tony's 2nd photo I believe was an end of season do, I could imagine some of which would carry on until the start of the next season!