School Trips Have Changed ...

[sherrardk]

Boy #1 is off to Liverpool this week for two days. They are going to the new cathedral, a museum/art gallery, open-topped bus your, boat trip on the Mersey (not a yellow duckmarine thankfully), ten-pin bowling and an evening meal at the Red Hot Buffet. We never did anything that interesting. What are your memories of school trips?

[EcclesCake]

Biology field trip to the coast where we marked out a square metre of sand and then studied it for the day. The paint drying study was somewhat more interesting.........

[pixie373]

I mainly remember zoos and museums. They get week-long residential trips now!

[gness]

One school trip...never to be forgotten. We went to the Blue John Caverns. On the way home some idiot in the street shot the window of the coach...the window next to me....all the teacher could see was the shattered window so who got the blame?
Arrived home exhausted and filthy so for a treat mother put the copper on in the bathroom to heat water for a bath. She told me to watch the water filling the copper through a hose from the tap....I fell asleep and the kitchen flooded.

[RATTER15]

we done the zoos and museums too but I also remember that in the early seventies when I was at school there was a cruise on the QE2 with Jimmy Saville, My parents could never afford to pay for anything like that and I never expected them to.

[cupid04]

I remember singing songs on the coach. But the only outing I remember was to the Greenwich maritime museum.

[sherrardk]

I remember that on the way home we used to phone our parents from the services at the Severn Bridge to say we were nearly home.

[cupid04]

I went on one of those educational cruises and I'm glad to say Saville weren't there!! The ship was called SS Nevassa.

[andres]

Mine would be a weeks strawberry picking in Blairgowrie,Scotland. Backbreaking work but rewarding at threepence a punnet!!!(1950). Loved every minute. Dormitories in big barns . Lovely weather. Dad even gave me £3 to spend,an absolute fortune in those days. Trips out to Pitlochry Dam, castles and churches , local towns for shopping. Meeting up with, and making friends, with other kids from all over the North of England.Flirting with the local lads who were strawberry picking . Eating in the open air and washing up in big enamel bowls. Stop me now --I'm getting overcome with nostalgia.

[Tilly2]

I was very happy, at the age of twelve, to go to St. Malo in Brittany and stay in an overcrowded 'otel for a whole week. We had a fantastic time and even practised our schoolgirl French. It was so exciting and adventurous.

I really don't know how my Mum and Dad were able to afford for me to go.
I remember pleading with them and eventually they said yes.

[cupid04]

Did you stamp your foot, tilly till you got your own way, lol?xx

[Tilly2]

No cupid, I was never a foot stamper. More of a face puller.

[hellywelly4]

Cupid 04 - the Nevassa was a Troop Ship and in 1962 my husband sailed out to Aden on it - it took 3 weeks. That was the last time it was used for troops until the Falklands War. Funnily enough, my daughter was booked to go on it with her school, but because of the war, it was requisitioned and the school trip was cancelled. I don't know whether it's still in use.

I remember going with my school to the Ladybower Reservoir and we went in a tunnel underneath it. Soo exciting (not).

[jake-the-peg]

I remember signing up for a school trip where we were going to get to go down a mine and see what that was like.

At the last minute they got cold feet (insurance problems I guess) and we had to go on a tour of the potteries in Staffordshire :c(

[pusskin]

We never ever went on any trips that i remember, only the local swimming baths every week and i hated the cold water, was always freezing, open air pool.

[gness]

Had some great trips when working in schools. Once our head was delayed for a trip to London and had to follow by train. We provided lunches for our kids and the cook had forgotten to include the doughnuts so she gave the head a box of sixty to take with him. It was at a time of bombings in London and he was asked about his package. When he said it contained sixty doughnuts he was relieved of the package and taken in for questioning. We never did get the doughnuts back...:-(

[Tilly2]

We went to the Blue John Mines and the Speedwell Cavern but that was with the Sunday School.

[Prudie]

Cupid my school did a trip on the Nevassa although I didn't go however as a 4 year old we sailed back on her from Singapore when she was still in regular service. I can just remember bits of the trip like my mum always telling me off for sticking my head out of the portholes (which you could do back then).

[Stephen_G]

Junior School: Marsden Rock ( If there's anything left of it...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsden_Rock )
and Whitley Bay or Hamsterley Forest.

Secondary: Never went anywhere.

[gness]

I did write....Gness loves Michael...on the loo wall at Blue John. Did you spot it Tilly? x

[ummmm]

Buying red wine from a street vending machine in Germany. Drinking in a gay bar as that was the only place that served us.

I can't believe, looking back, that the teachers left us to our own devices for so long.

We went on a boat trip down the Rhine and my mate collapsed. The teachers thought it was heat stroke but we knew it was a serious hangover :-)