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25-05-2006, 19:10
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Anyone for a mystery tour..........???
Quite often of a Sunday.....mum and dad would walk us downtown....and in a side street near the bus station..whose name I cant remember....were coaches with a board in front of them extolling the virtues of a day trip to Blackpool,Morecambe or Southport....you hopped on,paid your money and went when the driver thought he had enough people to cover the costs..but the ones I liked the best were the coaches marked with MYSTERY TOUR....how exciting not to know where you were going and guess all along the way...invariably it was a run in the Ribble Valley stopping at the obligatory pub along the way....and lasted for 3 or 4 hrs there and back....I loved every minute of it......
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25-05-2006, 19:13
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Re: Anyone for a mystery tour..........???
I will never forget a mystery tour we went on while on holiday in Blackpool..they took us to Townley Hall in Burnley,, our home town,,,so we went home and had a brew 
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25-05-2006, 19:17
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Re: Anyone for a mystery tour..........???
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I will never forget a mystery tour we went on while on holiday in Blackpool..they took us to Townley Hall in Burnley,, our home town,,,so we went home and had a brew 
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25-05-2006, 19:54
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Re: Anyone for a mystery tour..........???
Coaches used to run from Melbourne Street. I loved the mystery tours too. We once went to Hellifield on one.
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25-05-2006, 20:45
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Re: Anyone for a mystery tour..........???
We used to go out on a sunday dad driving mum sat in front seat and my dad used to just follow the road wherever we landed thats where we stayed - ended up in a farmyard once - dad apologised to the farmer saying i followed the wife's instructions! mum would have killed him if she could have driven home! That was my mystery tour!
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25-05-2006, 21:28
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Re: Anyone for a mystery tour..........???
One of our mystery tours ended up at Glasson Dock.......nice spot....and quite peaceful........
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25-05-2006, 21:58
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Re: Anyone for a mystery tour..........???
haha we ended up at selafield visitors centre couple of times then onto lake windermere. whoooooo
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25-05-2006, 22:54
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Re: Anyone for a mystery tour..........???
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I will never forget a mystery tour we went on while on holiday in Blackpool..they took us to Townley Hall in Burnley,, our home town,,,so we went home and had a brew 
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Oh Granny that made me choke with laughter, have some karma. 
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25-05-2006, 23:24
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Re: Anyone for a mystery tour..........???
If memory serves me right.........the coaches belonged to Brunskills and Eagle........are they still around?
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25-05-2006, 23:38
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Re: Anyone for a mystery tour..........???
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Coaches used to run from Melbourne Street.
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Wasn,t that where the Ribble expresses and the Padiham service left from........??.....seem to remember these other ones used to take off from opposite Garth Dawsons over the road from the covered market . close to the old Fern Gore bus stop
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