The Flying Scotsman was an East Coast line train. Flying Scotsman (the engine) and mallard would not have been seen at Hest Bank at that time as they were designed for running on the straighter and flatter East Coast route. Britannias, Royal Scots, Patriots, Jubilees and Black 5s would pull most pa...

NL Claret wrote:There's still campsite at Red Bank Farm at Bolton le Sands, never stayed there however it is not right flat! Also has a cafe called archers.

There is a great site in both Silverdale - Gilbralta Farm and Holgates on the road between Silverdale and Arnside

The building is still there, (although many changes to it have taken place). It is now called VVV Fitness Club, although at one point in the 1980's it was a disco/night club and restaurant, although cant remember its name. it is just off the Coastal Road as you leave Morecambe(passing Happy Mount P...

I went there in 1961 from Coal Clough I(which was at that time an all girls school). I moved to Hest Bank with my parents a few years later and remember well the holiday with the school during term time ie lessons in the morning and beach in the afternoon studying rock pools. The same summer we went...

Does anyone know exactly where Hest Bank camp school was ? I know it was near Morecambe, and there is a bit actually called Hest Bank, but what was location, and what is it now? It is a housing estate just set back from the road in Hest Bank not far from the railway crossing to the beach at Hest Bank