Ron & Margery Milton

We used to meet at what was the parish hall then, at the bottom of Trinity Lane and we'd march to the top of what is now Hollycroft, singing 'Onward Christian Soldiers' more often than not, and then Pickerings vans would come and we'd all get in the back and be taken to Wykin, into some farmer's fields and that was it. There'd be a sweet stall and then you'd have your tea which consisted mainly of a bit of bread and butter or bread and jam and a piece of cake and we played some games.

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Ron & Margery Milton

There was the Co-op gala. That was on a Saturday once in the summer and you'd meet in Castle Street and be given a bag with your tea in it - quite a substantial one from them - and we used to go out of the town walking, of course. I don't know where we finished up, some field somewhere, have organised games, races, that sort of thing. That was quite a thing.

August 26 was the big day - the Horsefair. All the shops were boarded up and they used to run the horses up and down in what is Lancaster Road and up towards Station Road. One horse was run up and down and it was bought and when it got to the top of Clarendon Road it collapsed and that was it...it had been too much.

Tinkers used to bring them you see, brush tinkers and people like that. I know some of the lads up Priesthills Road used to have a whip, they were some of the better off ones, they just played with it, it was really quite a day...it was quite an event. That's why that bit from Station Road down to Lancaster Road is called The Horsefair.

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Albert Attenborough

The first holiday...the first time I saw the sea was when I was 14 and that was because someone took us out, some organisation, and I think it were the Co-op, organised a trip. They took us all in buses...that was Skegness. You wondered what the devil it were - just amazed at all that water. We'd never been, you couldn't go any further than Hinckley, because you couldn't afford it.