Down yer in Vroom (Frome) our Sunday School outings were to Wey mouth on the (Steam) Train. We always referred to WSM as Weston on the mud, in contrast to the glorious yellow sands of South Dorset. Happy Days Jim On 1 September 2012 15:32, Josephine Jeremiah <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Thank you for this. I haven't had a look yet, but I'm sure it will be > worth watching and will bring back lots of memories for those of us who > frequented Weston-super-Mare in the 1960s. > > This seaside resort must have been familiar to generations of children who > went to Weston for their Sunday School outings as I did. My Mum and Dad > talked about such outings in their own Bristol childhoods and my Dad > remembered going to Weston once in a horse-drawn brake. >

On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 16:34:58 +0100, parsons james <[email protected]> wrote: > Down yer in Vroom (Frome) our Sunday School outings were to Wey mouth on > the (Steam) Train. We always referred to WSM as Weston on the mud, in > contrast to the glorious yellow sands of South Dorset. Hi Jim, Good to hear from you! Your mention of Weymouth has pointed my childhood memories in that direction, now :-) I remember outings to Weymouth, but they weren't Sunday School outings. My first trip to Weymouth from Bristol was by steam train, too, but it was the first stage of a long journey to Guernsey, when I was five years old. Other trips to Weymouth from Bristol involved journeys by car. They were day trips and we spent our time on the beach. I learnt to swim at Bowleaze Cove, near Weymouth. The last Weymouth trip I made was on August 3rd. 1963. I can date it precisely because it was a friend's birthday party that day and I'd gone to Weymouth instead. Ian had a memorable trip to Weymouth once. He and his family had been waiting for some time to cross the River Severn on the Welsh side of the Aust Ferry, when the ferry stopped running presumably because of the weather. They had to continue the trip by going around Gloucester, which in those days was the first bridging point for cars. Ian said, 'It was grumble, grumble all the way!' Weymouth isn't that far away from Bristol. Looking at a table of distances dating from c. 1857, because that's all I have to hand, I see that the distance between Bristol and Weymouth was given as 63 miles, whereas the distance between Bristol and Weston-super-Mare was given as 21 miles. Josephine