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....
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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.