We are from Oklahoma (in the US 😃) and my husband and I visited Wales last summer. We actually went to Porthcawl and had fish and chips from Beales . Our son-in-law is from Bridgend and was a fantastic chauffeur and tour guide. We’ll be making our way back over next summer too. Thanks for the video, it reminded me of the fantastic trip we had.
The famous 'Beales' - still very popular. There's always something special about fish and chips by the seaside. Hope you have another good trip in the summer.
My parents took me and my brother and sister to Porthcawl every summer to stay in a caravan. We loved it. The first year must have been 1951. I remember the stalls selling apple juice , shaped like an apple. We went to Coney Beach usually on the last day of our hols. The sand dunes were great fun to play in, but were flattened in the 1960s, to make way for thousands of caravans for miners week.
I Know north Cawl very well as we used to visit North Cawl often on week ends and on the Miners fortnight holidays where we stayed at Treco Bay in a caravan in the caravan park on the bay and visit Coney Beach amusement park and go on the Figure eight ride and our father some times drove a coach full of people down to Porth Cawl as he was a part time coach driver and if there was empty seats on the coach we used to go with our father to Porth Cawl with him. We lived then in the Rhondda Valley
I grew up in North Cornelly, three miles away. I left to go to university and to work in England in 1984. Of course, I'd visit my family and still visit my father who is in his late eighties. Invariably, these visits involve seeing the sea at Porthcawl. Anyway, I am a school teacher and in about 2002 I was teaching in a school in Essex and one of my pupil's parents had owned the old Stoneleigh club, destroyed in a fire, many years ago and now a block of flats. The Stoneleigh was the location for the debauched sixth form dances of Cynffig Comprehensive. Thanks for the film
I always loved coming here for holidays! It's such a beautiful place and it's lovely staying in the caravan for a week or two. Loved the video, Diolch!
Sat in our kitchen on a wet and dreary day watching this video.Never get tired of Porthcawl, we went there when it was snowing one year.Great video as always,where’s your beard.lol
Excellent photography, and unhurried editing - many thanks for this video. My family moved to Porthcawl when I was 9 in the early 1960s, and I remember the police station when there were still policemen in it! I'm pleased to see the building being put to such good use. I can proudly claim to have caught a train from Porthcawl Station, to Cardiff via Pyle. Wouldn't it be great to get that back? We lived in Newton, and I can recommend a visit to the ancient parish church (if it isn't locked!), followed by a pint in the Jolly Sailor, then a walk down to Newton Beach and east across the sands and dunes towards the River Ogmore. You might discover remnants of the old Army firing range there, but there'll be no need to keep your head down these days.
Thanks for watching and the comments. I'm too young to remember the train but it would be great to have that back. I remember as a kid riding on the miniature train along the Eastern Promenade, it went through some dodgy looking fiberglass tunnel halfway along. Yes, there are still remnants of the firing range on the dunes, that's a great walk to Merthyr Mawr.
This year it's 28th - 30th Sept. How good it is really depends on the weather. Here's a link to the organiser www.elvies.co.uk If you haven't been to Wales before you should definitely take a trip to Cardiff and West Wales as well.
Great video - might have to pop along to Porthcawl next time we head across the Bridge. Love to know that part of South Wales doubled as the Arabian Desert! - Gary
Thanks for commenting, glad you enjoyed it. Sorry about the incorrect golf reference. Anyway, it does rain quite a bit but it's the gale force winds that can be challenging.
Apologies, I'm not a golfer. However, the point being it has hosted many tournaments, to clarify here is their list www.royalporthcawl.com/heritage/past-tournaments/
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We are from Oklahoma (in the US 😃) and my husband and I visited Wales last summer. We actually went to Porthcawl and had fish and chips from Beales . Our son-in-law is from Bridgend and was a fantastic chauffeur and tour guide. We’ll be making our way back over next summer too. Thanks for the video, it reminded me of the fantastic trip we had.
The famous 'Beales' - still very popular. There's always something special about fish and chips by the seaside. Hope you have another good trip in the summer.
My parents took me and my brother and sister to Porthcawl every summer to stay in a caravan. We loved it. The first year must have been 1951.
I remember the stalls selling apple juice , shaped like an apple.
We went to Coney Beach usually on the last day of our hols. The sand dunes were great fun to play in, but were flattened in the 1960s, to make way for thousands of caravans for miners week.
The apple stall was before my time but one still remains over in Mumbles Swansea. th-cam.com/video/THu1j0QZ-vQ/w-d-xo.html
So many childhood memories. Last time I was there was on a stag night in tge 90s. A good pub crawl.
The album cover for Echo & the Bunnymen 2nd album ‘Heaven up Here’ was taken on that beach back in 1981. I must visit sometime.
I often visit porthcawl. My mother was in a care home there.
I'll be there for the Elvis festival. Get some great pictures.
Have a good time at the Elvis Festival.
I Know north Cawl very well as we used to visit North Cawl often on week ends and on the Miners fortnight holidays where we stayed at Treco Bay in a caravan in the caravan park on the bay and visit Coney Beach amusement park and go on the Figure eight ride and our father some times drove a coach full of people down to Porth Cawl as he was a part time coach driver and if there was empty seats on the coach we used to go with our father to Porth Cawl with him. We lived then in the Rhondda Valley
That was wonderful, thank you for sharing. An x-Porthcawlian now living away very fond to see this"
Thanks for watching. It was very different today with Storm Eunice.
I grew up in North Cornelly, three miles away. I left to go to university and to work in England in 1984. Of course, I'd visit my family and still visit my father who is in his late eighties. Invariably, these visits involve seeing the sea at Porthcawl. Anyway, I am a school teacher and in about 2002 I was teaching in a school in Essex and one of my pupil's parents had owned the old Stoneleigh club, destroyed in a fire, many years ago and now a block of flats. The Stoneleigh was the location for the debauched sixth form dances of Cynffig Comprehensive. Thanks for the film
Yes, the infamous Stoneleigh Club. It used to be so busy in the early 80s.
Definitely Best place to watch the waves with fish and chips, in your car. Favourite part of autumn/winter
Agree, fish and chips in the car when it's stormy outside.
I always loved coming here for holidays! It's such a beautiful place and it's lovely staying in the caravan for a week or two. Loved the video, Diolch!
Thanks. Hopefully, we can all start to get out and enjoy it more this summer.
@@flydriveexplore I hope so! I'd love to go back
Great video man , I live in porthcawl its definitely at its best in summer!
Yep, the weather definitely helps. The autumn storms may look dramatic but sometimes the long stretches of wet and windy weather is a bit of a pain.
Very enjoyable video
Thank you
i miss the good old porthcawl from i was a kid spent hours in the dirty duck
The Dirty Duck is just a bit of waste ground now.
Sat in our kitchen on a wet and dreary day watching this video.Never get tired of Porthcawl, we went there when it was snowing one year.Great video as always,where’s your beard.lol
That was back in the 'pre-beard' days before I went for the Kenny Rogers look.
My best friend lives here and i have so many mermorys here
Glad it brought back some good memories of the place.
I live there love the place and down treco bay
my nan lives there
Really good video! I grew up in Porthcawl too. Nice to see a few of my stomping grounds. Thanks!
Thanks, glad you liked it.
Excellent photography, and unhurried editing - many thanks for this video.
My family moved to Porthcawl when I was 9 in the early 1960s, and I remember the police station when there were still policemen in it! I'm pleased to see the building being put to such good use.
I can proudly claim to have caught a train from Porthcawl Station, to Cardiff via Pyle. Wouldn't it be great to get that back?
We lived in Newton, and I can recommend a visit to the ancient parish church (if it isn't locked!), followed by a pint in the Jolly Sailor, then a walk down to Newton Beach and east across the sands and dunes towards the River Ogmore. You might discover remnants of the old Army firing range there, but there'll be no need to keep your head down these days.
Thanks for watching and the comments. I'm too young to remember the train but it would be great to have that back. I remember as a kid riding on the miniature train along the Eastern Promenade, it went through some dodgy looking fiberglass tunnel halfway along. Yes, there are still remnants of the firing range on the dunes, that's a great walk to Merthyr Mawr.
What dates in September for the Elvis festival? We get to the UK right at the beginning of September. Could be such a fun trip!
This year it's 28th - 30th Sept. How good it is really depends on the weather. Here's a link to the organiser www.elvies.co.uk If you haven't been to Wales before you should definitely take a trip to Cardiff and West Wales as well.
Great video - might have to pop along to Porthcawl next time we head across the Bridge. Love to know that part of South Wales doubled as the Arabian Desert! - Gary
Thanks, it's not quite as warm as the Arabian desert and not so many camels.
Great video was there in 2017 at golf match,one of the best courses I have seen,loveporthcawl and the people.it really does rain alot fond memories.
Thanks for commenting, glad you enjoyed it. Sorry about the incorrect golf reference. Anyway, it does rain quite a bit but it's the gale force winds that can be challenging.
lovely video, thank you for sharing :-)
Thanks for watching and the nice comment.
Senior British open tournament,not Ryder cup.!
Apologies, I'm not a golfer. However, the point being it has hosted many tournaments, to clarify here is their list www.royalporthcawl.com/heritage/past-tournaments/