camping and YHA

[mercalia]

It's amazing when you did a bit deeper how much the YHA has changed over the years; particularly between the 1930s and 1960s - many, many hostels opened and closed.

A sad list..... Sorted by county it seems Derbyshire alone has lost over 25.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_y ... ormer_ones

well East Anglia has lost most of them. Castle Hedingham, Nedging Tye, Gt Yarmouth, Norwich . Saffron Walden, Epping, Colchester, Kings Lynn

[pete75]

It's amazing when you did a bit deeper how much the YHA has changed over the years; particularly between the 1930s and 1960s - many, many hostels opened and closed.

A sad list..... Sorted by county it seems Derbyshire alone has lost over 25.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_y ... ormer_ones

well East Anglia has lost most of them. Castle Hedingham, Nedging Tye, Gt Yarmouth, Norwich . Saffron Walden, Epping, Colchester, Kings Lynn

And Lincolnshire has 15 on the closed list and with Thurlby and Woody's Top apparently to close will have none left.

[mercalia]

certainly the YHA is no longer for the "budget independant traveller"

[axel_knutt]

There were 240 hostels in 1998, it's down to 164 now. That Wikipedia list is way out of date.

[millimole]

It's amazing when you did a bit deeper how much the YHA has changed over the years; particularly between the 1930s and 1960s - many, many hostels opened and closed.

A sad list..... Sorted by county it seems Derbyshire alone has lost over 25.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_y ... ormer_ones

Its a fascinating list, and a trip down memory lane- but it's interesting to see how many were only open for short periods of only one or two years.


I'm a trendy consumer. Just look at my brain to my iPad using my fingers and Tapatalk

[pete75]

It's amazing when you did a bit deeper how much the YHA has changed over the years; particularly between the 1930s and 1960s - many, many hostels opened and closed.

A sad list..... Sorted by county it seems Derbyshire alone has lost over 25.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_y ... ormer_ones

Its a fascinating list, and a trip down memory lane- but it's interesting to see how many were only open for short periods of only one or two years.


A worthless piece of junk ! : my brain to my iPad using my fingers and Tapatalk

Yes - particularly during the war and just after. Maybe the YHA was involved in providing short term accommodation to meet temporary local labour demands.

[Cyril Haearn]

brynpoethuchaf brynpoethisaf brynpoethganol gerddibluog cynwyd brynhall dimmingsdale grintonlodge

rushall wheathill nantydernol carrockfell ninebanks thixendale woodystop jordans

dolgoch talyllyn penmaenmawr tannershatch ennerdale eskdale selby (barge "sabrina w" still floating?)

clunmill clunmill bridges knighton keld gradbach highcrosscastle cleevehill

troedrhiwgellifawr!

[pete75]

selby (barge "sabrina w" still floating?)

!

Doesn't like she's there anymore.

1982


2016 https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.78080 ... 56!6m1!1e1

Film about it here http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-the ... lers-1965/

[mercalia]

I stayed there a couple of times. really sad these type of places are gone given way to semi hotel places with no real character. There was for a time a hostel that was a converted farm/pig building I think above Ipswich, Hadleigh?

lovely film Pete75 thanks for finding that & to the guys who made Sabrina into a YHA

seems like an old postcard on ebay for sale

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Old-Postcard-SABRINA-W-boat-YOUTH-HOSTEL-YHA-Selby-photo-B-O-C-M-canal-/361880805279?hash=item5441c6df9f%3Ag%3AXq4AAOSwgmJXyC4g

[mercalia]

brynpoethuchaf brynpoethisaf brynpoethganol gerddibluog cynwyd brynhall dimmingsdale grintonlodge

rushall wheathill nantydernol carrockfell ninebanks thixendale woodystop jordans

dolgoch talyllyn penmaenmawr tannershatch ennerdale eskdale selby (barge "sabrina w" still floating?)

clunmill clunmill bridges knighton keld gradbach highcrosscastle cleevehill

troedrhiwgellifawr!

tannershatch is still there - the only decent hostel south of London that dont attract school parties and you can canp there. is being refurbished I think at the moment

[axel_knutt]

tannershatch is still there

So are dimmingsdale grinton lodge ninebanks jordans ennerdale eskdale clunmill bridges & high cross castle

[phil parker]

Do these names count in Scrabble?

[buryman]

Dimmingsdale and Ninebanks have gone. I have never heard of High Cross castle.

[Cyril Haearn]

Do these names count in Scrabble?

Nor sure whether scrabble allows place names, if so I might win, I fished the names out of my memory. First went hostelling 1973, cost about 37p to stay.

ystumtuen ystradfellte tynycae storeyarms

dinasmawddwy kingsdolgellau llanffestinog maeshafn poppitsands broadhaven

plasrhiwaedog 3km from bala to hamlet of rhosygwaliau over bridge and left along drive

[Cyril Haearn]

Dimmingsdale and Ninebanks have gone. I have never heard of High Cross castle.

High Cross Castle =Windermere (Troutbeck). It is a lovely building like a real castle with views to the Langdale Pikes.