The School Visit to
Calella de la Costa,
Spain 1962
This article comes to us from Jenny Bee - or more accurately. straight from her annotated photo album, which she made after she returned home. All the photographs are scanned from that album, and everything in blue text is a straight copy of her hand-written annotations, for example:-
Normal (black) text is her recent comment.
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We are grateful to Jenny for keeping this record safely for nearly half a century, and thank her for sharing it with us now.
If anyone else has snaps taken during this holiday, please feel free to add them to my offerings.
Unfortunately I seem to have been more interested in snapping architecture rather than people.
Perhaps others can fill in for my lack of portraits.
Jenny"
The School Visit to
Calella de la Costa,
Spain 1962
Calella de la Costa
Trad Airlines
The plane landed at Perpingon
Lola and Theresa outside the hotel
Lola and Theresa were two of the waiting staff at the hotel in Calella de la Costa
Lynne Warburton, Jennifer Bee and Annette Buckley
Outside the hotel Calella de la Costa
On a free afternoon, the 3 young ladies pictured above, who shared a room on the holiday, decided to go and try out a Spanish hairdressing salon.
Back combing was the height of fashion.
We emerged from the salon back combed and lacquered, and as I recall very pleased with the results.
A force nine gale would not have shifted those hair dos.
Please notice the sticky out skirts with full petticoats which were also in fashion.
My name is Ku-Ki
I guard the railway level crossing.
Once, on a level crossing at this point, a car and a train collided and many people were killed.
After the accident a man and a dog were posted at the crossing to warn cars of approaching trains.
The train line is now closed, but the old man and his dog still remain.
The old man has crippled hands and he earns a little money from the tourists through his performing dog, Ku-Ki.
The School Visit to
Calella de la Costa,
Spain 1962
Montserrat
The valley from Montserrat
Montserrat
Montserrat is the holy mountain of Spain and is a place of pilgrimage.
Rich spanish couples consider it the best place to be married and often spend the first few days of their marriage on the mountain.
There is a monastery on the mountain and monks of this order cannot leave the mountain without special permission.
There is also a beautiful church, with a black Madonna wearing gold robes.
The Church at Montserrat
The School Visit to
Calella de la Costa,
Spain 1962
Barcelona
The Church of the Sacred Heart
Tibidabo
La Templo de la Sagrada Familio
Barcelona
Barcelona football stadium
A replica of The Santa Maria
The School Visit to
Calella de la Costa,
Spain 1962
The Model Village
The gateway to the Model Village
This is a life size village designed to display the different kinds of Spanish architecture and also the traditional crafts of Spain are still carried on, in the workshops in the village.
The School Visit to
Calella de la Costa,
Spain 1962
Blanes harbour and Fish Market
Blanes fish market
All that I can recall about this outing was how smelly the place was and seeing dead octopus.
The School Visit to
Calella de la Costa,
Spain 1962
Graham Stanley
Drinking from a Buron
The object in the photograph is a Buron and it is used as a test of strength and skill.
In the village where they originated the burons are placed on stands outside the cafes.
They are filled with wine and are extremely heavy.
If you can lift one, with one arm, you can drink as much of the wine as you like.
Mr Tony Tempest, Mrs Tempest, Mr Graham Stanley, ? , ? , Mr W.J. Handforth.
On the beach
Ole