On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 10:37:44 +0100, Chris Jefferies <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday Points West showed old colour film of Weston-super-Mare on a > bank holiday in the 1960s taken from a helicopter. The most amazing > thing was the number of people packed into the town! It was from a 1960s > programme called "Beside the Seaside" which was part of a series called > "Birds Eye View" > which is available to view at :- > http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ 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. The earliest Sunday School outing I remember was travelling to Weston by train from Staple Hill railway station. Later outings were by coach. An image of Weston's Floral Clock has just sprung into my mind as I think that was one of the first sights to be seen. In the 1960s, I used to enjoy spending time in The Pool. I'm not sure what the official name was, but remember it being referred to as just The Pool. I've just dug out my photo album from the 1960s and I see that I have captioned one photo from the summer of 1967 as The Pool, Weston-super-Mare. Sadly, the photograph has gone astray, but I remember the occasion well. A penfriend from the Midlands was on holiday at Weston with her family and they had invited me to have lunch with them in their guest house and to stay with them for the day. Luckily, there was a coach trip to Weston from my village on that particular day so the travelling was easy. In my youth, I found the town as interesting as the beach and The Pool. I used to love walking through the Winter Gardens between the seafront and the shops, where I would spend my pocket money on knick-knacks. I expect the BBC archive will bring back even more memories. Josephine