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Offline D_

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« on: Tuesday 27 April 10 23:42 BST (UK) »
Completed with thanks :)
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Re: UK Holiday - Place of Photo Unknown
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 28 April 10 15:46 BST (UK) »
The second one could well be the "Wild West" pleasure ground at Morecambe, but I'm a bit thrown by the car.  Can you tell us when the photos were taken?

I'm finding it difficult to make anything out of the letters on the buildings in the background.

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FAIREY/FAIRY/FAREY/FEARY, LAWSON, CHURCH, BENSON, HALSTEAD from Easton, Ellington, Eynesbury, Gt Catworth, Huntingdon, Spaldwick, Hunts;  Burnley, Lancs;  New Zealand, Australia & US.

HURST, BOLTON,  BUTTERWORTH, ADAMSON, WILD, MCIVOR from Milnrow, Newhey, Oldham & Rochdale, Lancs., Scotland.

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Re: UK Holiday - Place of Photo Unknown
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 28 April 10 16:48 BST (UK) »
The first is definitely Marvels Amusement Park in Scarborough - closed about 1999-2000.
http://www.ukrides.info/col/lost/marvels/marvelsflyer1.jpg

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Re: UK Holiday - Place of Photo Unknown
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 28 April 10 16:53 BST (UK) »
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I'm finding it difficult to make anything out of the letters on the buildings in the background

I reckon one of them is "Nickel & Dime"
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Re: UK Holiday - Place of Photo Unknown
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 28 April 10 17:04 BST (UK) »
If this is Morecambe, then it's on the front almost opposite the Midland Hotel.  Nickel & Dime sounds good for a Wild West place!  :)

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FAIREY/FAIRY/FAREY/FEARY, LAWSON, CHURCH, BENSON, HALSTEAD from Easton, Ellington, Eynesbury, Gt Catworth, Huntingdon, Spaldwick, Hunts;  Burnley, Lancs;  New Zealand, Australia & US.

HURST, BOLTON,  BUTTERWORTH, ADAMSON, WILD, MCIVOR from Milnrow, Newhey, Oldham & Rochdale, Lancs., Scotland.

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Re: UK Holiday - Place of Photo Unknown
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 28 April 10 17:13 BST (UK) »
I thnk the second could be Frontierland Morecambe ?

http://www.joylandbooks.com/themagiceye/galleries/back2frontierland1.htm
NEILSON - Erskine/Bishopton, Renfrewshire and Glasgow
BROWN - Hamilton, Lanarkshire
CAIRNS - Hamilton, Lanarkshire
FINDLAY - Kirriemuir area, Forfarshire/Angus
PORTER - Tobermore, Derry, Ireland

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Re: UK Holiday - Place of Photo Unknown
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 28 April 10 17:23 BST (UK) »
That's the name I was searching for in my dim and distant past!
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FAIREY/FAIRY/FAREY/FEARY, LAWSON, CHURCH, BENSON, HALSTEAD from Easton, Ellington, Eynesbury, Gt Catworth, Huntingdon, Spaldwick, Hunts;  Burnley, Lancs;  New Zealand, Australia & US.

HURST, BOLTON,  BUTTERWORTH, ADAMSON, WILD, MCIVOR from Milnrow, Newhey, Oldham & Rochdale, Lancs., Scotland.

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Re: UK Holiday - Place of Photo Unknown
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 29 April 10 23:01 BST (UK) »
Goodness!  Is that a circa 1958 1959 Edsel station wagon in picture 2?  If so, it was very cruel of Ford to inflict their mistake on our British cousins.

Nick
McLellan - Inverness
Greer - Renfrewshire
Manson - Aberdeen & Orkney
Simpson - Hereford, Devon, etc.
Flett - Orkney
Chisholm - Scotland
Wishart - Orkney
Shand - Aberdeen
Pirie - Aberdeen

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Re: UK Holiday - Place of Photo Unknown
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 29 April 10 23:18 BST (UK) »
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