Tom's Photos

 Thanks to Tom for getting in touch and sending 2 photos for the blog, I have included both of his emails under each of the photos...

Hi Jackie, was given details of your website - fabulous stuff. Went to Don Quijote with Britannia in 1978 or 1979 and spent many nights in The Highlander and Robin Hood. Little did I know that my move down south in 1985 would lead me to be introduced to former owners of The Birmingham Chippy in Fanals - Ivy and Harold Payne from Henley in Arden. Here they are pictured with their son Gerald and daughter Sally. We don't know who the lady is on the end but think she worked in the bar where picture taken. I believe they were there for most of the 70s.

 Sadly the Paynes in the picture have all passed away but they were all characters in their own way and well remembered.

 Here is a picture of the lads from Oxgangs, Liberton and Longstone in Edinburgh with the bar staff from The Highlander. Photographer from Foto Lloses San Pedro 15 in Lloret knew we were suckers for a photo and followed us around. Maybe some of the guys will have some more. Messrs Cropley, McGuigan, Houston, Jordan, Hunter, Boulton and McQuatt - if you are still out there have a dig through the old albums.

 

Photos from John Jackson

John has been in touch and sent in his photos from the 70s after recently coming across the 'Old Stuff' by accident.
 Here is John's email and photos.....

 Found your website today when I was messing about on the internet - it brought
back so many great memories of holidays I had there in 1974,1976 &
1977.
Thought I would send a couple of pics of a couple of the many nights we had in
the West Coast in 1976.
Pic 1 shows me and my mate Roger (the two guys above the guy on the
bottom left) at approximately 2 in the morning with a bunch of people
we had somehow got to meet over several hours - we had just popped into
the West Coast at about 1pm 13 hours earlier for a quick drink on the
way back from the beach - that was what the West Coast was like back
then!
Pic 2 - a romantic evening the next night shared with a couple of
the barmen from the West Coast! Any idea who they are?
Great nights and great memories.
Love the site.

A Story from Mariano..

After recent stories which have been sent in to the blog Mariano would like to add one of his own from the 70s....

I hope you understand my difficult for to write in English but here goes my story hoping like you it. In the early 70´s there was a bar opposite the Western Saloon,this bar had a lot of customers because the drink prices,were much lower than  others bars around,the bar's name was "Martin's Bar"and the owner Martin,was gay.In those years,many stray dogs,some loose by their owners and others abandoned,were coming along the streets and along the beach of Lloret,searching for tourist feed,one day,being in Martin's bar,crossed down the street,outside the bar,a bitch in heat,followed by perhaps sixteen or more dogs,when Martin saw the gang of dogs pass by the street behind the bitch,came to the door of his bar and cried -;¡Oh! "how lucky they have some"                                             

Rish's photos...

 Photos from the days of Rish, Phil & Stevie in Texas.

Not Lloret but almost!

Thanks to David for this story and photo from the 70s...

Another photo mid seventies not exactly Lloret but it was the day before??? I was transferred with Thomson Holidays from Costa Brava to Corfu (just when I was speaking Spanish!) and I had bought a place outside Malaga. So I thought I would drive to work and at the end of the season drive back to my new home in Malaga and in doing I looked in at Lloret for chicken that night in El Relicario,  while cruising round Lloret remembering the nice times I  bumped into Chris Stanley outside the Londoner (I lived above him during my first year in Lloret) and he had a go in the new “Motor” next day around evening I came across this place in Almeria where Clint Eastwood made the spaghetti westerns. Never a dull moment.

A Few from Fin

 Today's photos come from Fin, featuring the West Coast which was next door to what is now Andy and Jackie's place 'Route 66' - when I called in there the other day it was nice to meet up with Maria who's Mum Anne Marie actually worked in the West Coast...does anyone remember her?
1st pic - West Coast, Phil and Mr Highland doing a local Scottish dance.

2nd pic - Phil, Mr Highland and Totty cleaning up the town. 

3rd pic - Colin, ?, Phil, Barbara, Totty, and Fin. (Phil, who is the guy in the red shirt?)

Spooners Pics

 Todays photos taken in Nicky Tams come from Spooner...(now working in the Funky Monkey)

Can we add any names to the faces, apart from Spooner & Ramon that is!!