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Do
you remember holidays at Silverdale? Do you recognise any
of the children in the pictures?
Email us at Leeds@bbc.co.uk
with your memories.
My
name is Mr Gordon Silverdale, say no more, I was very lucky
I had four holidays at silverdale these were the best days
of my life. I will never forget these days, I am 51 now I
also had the the time to send some of my kids too, doing a
good job keep it up.
Gordon
Silverdale
There
is a holiday camp far far away
where they have jam and bread three times a day,
egg's and bacon they don't see
they don't have sugar in the tea
and gradually they'll fade away
Colin
Szymanskyi
I didn't go but all of my brothers and
sisters went. I would love a copy of the silverdale song.
I remember a couple of the lines which i guessed the kids
had changed: There
is a happy land far far away where we have bread and jam 3
times a day.
Does anyone have a copy of the song? Please e-mail it to us
at leeds@bbc.co.uk and we'll pass it on.
I
went to Silverdale around 1978, my very first holiday ever.
I remember the outdoor pool, walking to the pepperpot and
collecting pebbles on the beach so we could decorate them
as gifts for our parents. I also remember the fantastic views
and vivid sunsets. We had fabulous weather although noone
dared to try the pool. Mealtimes were always fun and the jam
butties were plentiful although ants were sometimes a problem.
I remember the day we left for home and wishing I could just
have one more day because I didn't like my pebble and wanted
the chance to find another one. Silverdale was my first and
definitely one my most warmly remembered holidays.
Karl Harrington
I went to Silverdale twice in the 1960s although I'm not too
sure of the years I vaguely remember one year seeing Mary
Hopkins appearing on television series Opportunity Knocks
in the tv room at Silverdale. It's strange reading about
the experiences that other people had that I can relate to.
The pepper pot, giants footprint, the issue of clothes they
gave you that never fit. I remember being given a pait of
shoes with the rest of the clothing at Great George Street
before departing for Silverdale that the clowns from Billy
Smarts Circus would have been proud of. The second time I
went to Silverdale I remember a visit from the Lord Mayor
of Leeds. We put on a of show for him I believe it was the
black and white minstrels. The Yorkshire Evening
Post were there taking pictures. It's funny the two times
I went to Silverdale I never actually got to see the sea.
Still they were good times
I look foreword to the reunion.
Colin Szymanskyi
I remember going to Silverdale in the
late 50's twice, my memory of the camp is the outdoor swimming
pool. My biggest memory is that I had an accident and fell
out of a tree and ended up in Morecombe hospital. We were
only allowed to take half a crown spending money, this had
to last the two weeks.
Ray Emmerson
I went to Silverdale around 1957
or 1958. I was about 6 years old at the time. I remember the
walks in the woods. I think i remember a little castle nearby.
We went to church on a sunday, they dressed us all up, they
gave you coppers to put in the box after the service.
Looking at the footage on Look North tonight i remember the
outdoor pool so clearly. I have so many memories of that place.
we had a recreation room where we played games, we also played
football and went swimming. We slept in coridoors with beds
in long rows. It would be wonderful to hear of people who
went to Silverdale at the same time as myself.
G. Wortley, Leeds
I
remember silverdale in the late 70's, you got jam sandwiches
all the time this put my eldest sister off jam/lemoncurd for
life, there was four of us that went. The pool was freezing
with leaves and things floating, there was ants everywhere
i remember crying because they were in the drawer with my
clothes. I hurt myself on the seesaw and they joked about
cutting my fat lip off. The place looks a lot better today,
back then you didn't tell anyone where you had been as they
knew it was for poor families.I was reminiscing with my sister
when i saw it on the news we said we wouldn't send our children
as it doesn't seem right.
Shirelle Wray
My Grandma, went to the camp when she was little. She would
have been at the camp in about 1916 she would have therefore
been one of the first vistors to the camp. She told my mum
that the place was a tinY hut when she went, but always spoke
very fondly of Silverdale. After growing up in south Leeds
my mother and father moved to live in Silverdale in 1984,
taking me along. I was seven at the time. It was purely by
chance as my father was working in Morcambe. I
grew up in the place where my grandma first saw the sea and
I feel very lucky for this. Silverdale is a very special place
and it is important that the holiday camp continues so that
other people like my grandma can enjoy the seaside.
Claire Harris
I well remember going to Silverdale in the early sixties,
and like others have said previously, it was a traumatic time
to be away from home on your own for the first time. My personal
memories were the brown corduroy uniforms and shoes etc, that
we were given before boarding the coach and waving goodbye
to our parents. Other memories are of the open air swimming
pool and the woollen swimming trunks that used to be really
uncomfortable, the trips down to the "wishing well"
"giants foot prints" the films in the recreation
room, having to go to bed after a hot milky drink and a few
biscuits when we really wanted to stop up longer, and the
dormitories that we slept in. During the time I stayed there
I celebrated my birthday and was surprised when a big parcel
arrived from my mum containing all sorts of sweets which everybody
wanted me to share. Recently I took the time to travel back
up there just for a nostalgic trip, nothing much had changed
really apart from the swimming pool now being covered, but
the one thing that it did remind me of was the isolation that
I felt and the loneliness of being so far away from home,
still I was an experience that I, like a lot of other children
will never forget.
Malcolm Henrick
Blackburn, Lancashire
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