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.