Lads outings

                                 Scarborough Trip 25th January 2018.      Another adventure with the Lads, this time to Yorkshire’s East Coastal resort of Scarborough. Today our numbers have swollen to a pleasant total of Eight. The cast members include, Malcolm, Eddie, Alan, John, Derek, Colin, Kevin and Dave. Some of the Lads took the twelve minutes past nine train from Leeds, Kevin caught a train from his home town of Beverley,  Alan met us at Scarborough, while Dave had the misfortune of traffic problems around Dewsbury and joined the group some hour and fifteen minutes later.  Modern technology allows us to make arrangements, so there was a great gathering outside the North Bay Fisheries roundabout 1:00 pm. To enjoy a well deserved lunch. Previous to this the lads had stretched their legs and walked from the railway  station to the Sea Life Center a distance close to 2 miles or so. From North Bay we all now ventured down to the sea front and began our walk along Marine

BEVERLEY  VIA HULL  THURSDAY  11 JANUARY 2018 It was a reduced group  of five  that assembled  in  Leeds City Station for our trip to  Beverley  meeting  once again  at the new seating area on PLATFORM 11 – 15 for the 09: 38  to  Hull The  Sturdy Six  today consisted of Colin, Keith, Malcolm ,   Eddie,  Derek and John. Dave unable to  travel due to illness. We departed on time discussing our Christmas experiences with John’s story of how he complained about the air pass e nger who  exercised  his right to use his recliner seat much to the  chagrin  of John who did not take too kindly to someone using the ir  reclining seat. Although upset about it he assured us that it did  not come to blows but it very nearly did.  By this  time,  we had arrived in Hull on Platform 3 and wandered round to Platform 7 for the 10:44 Bridlington train  which was waiting for us and would  drop us off in Beverley  at10:57. Here we were met by our host for the day Kevin who was to show us around B