Camp Staithes

[Bishop]

Question for my fellow greybeards out there:

Did any of you ever get sent on a school 'Holiday' to an old army camp on a barren stretch of the North Yorkshire coast in the village of Staithes? Long wooden barracks buildings, original green & light blue lead paint and bunk beds that would not look out of place in The Great Escape?

 

[Silkhi]

I quite possibly did.... pretty local and it rings a bell! All I remember was it was the first time I stayed anywhere apart from my parents & I tried pizza for the first time (frozen and nasty) which was consumed with baked beans (???)

 

[Mesquite]

Yup, went there with my school in 1972.

I remember it just as you described it

 

[mrcharly]

I quite possibly did.... pretty local and it rings a bell! All I remember was it was the first time I stayed anywhere apart from my parents & I tried pizza for the first time (frozen and nasty) which was consumed with baked beans (???)

Didn't they cook it before serving it to you?

 

[Silkhi]

Ha actually I think I was involved with the cooking
*hangs head in shame*