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- Location
- Billericay, Essex
Crushed nuts?Don't mention 99s - I still cringe thinking about the time I got to the front of an ice cream queue and told the good looking Italian ice cream vendor that I would like a 69!
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flake99please
We all scream for ice cream
- Location
- Edinburgh
I'll have a Flake 99 please. 
Am I being paranoid is everyone talking about me?
Am I being paranoid is everyone talking about me?
Out of interest....when did you last visit New Brighton.
What they have done is fantastic. It was crowded. Free bands playing. Lots of coffee houses and restaurants with out door seating (all full). We had the best day out for years and will be going back
mark st1
Plastic Manc
- Location
- Leafy Berkshire
We have local ice cream wars around here the regular one was recently found dead in the back of his van covered in flakes and strawberry sauce. Police reckon he topped himself. 
(Old ones are the best)
(Old ones are the best)
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User32269
Guest
Was only joking. Take the kids a lot. They love the mini golf and scooters out down the sea front. Looks well better now. I miss the open air baths (showing my age)
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Try a couple of 'Lakeland' cones from Ambleside and you'll dump £6+.
Where do you live ?
I was born & lived in Wallasey/New Brighton before getting married in '68 and emigrating to Warrington.
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User32269
Guest
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Over the river. We used to get ferry over to New Brighton baths, stay all day, then eat our body weight in chips when we were kids.
The "old Brighton" is still there. Its called Brighton. A weathy guy loved Brighton so much he ploughed his money into an area on the Wirral and called it......New Brighton.
I have to ask......what age bracket are you in ?
I am 69 and got LOTS of sunburn in the baths as a lad.
Do you remember the Derby baths.....also open air and a few miles up the coast.....sadly also gone.
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User32269
Guest
I'm 50. Used to go to Rock Ferry, was open air one with a couple of pools if I remember correctly?
My kids love New Brighton now, but would be great to have the baths back. Don't know if it's because I was a kid, but I remember it as being huge! I was taken to hospital after doing a back flop from the high diving board! Can still hear the noise I made hitting the water and shudder!
Edit: or could have been New Ferry baths?
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Hugh Manatee
Veteran
Don't forget the price of a nice cream from the van has to compensate the poor driver having to drive around all day with Mr Softy displayed right over his head.
Just yesterday I was telling someone about the diving board. There used to be a famous one legged diver who went from the top board.
I went to the top...just once....looked down and climbed back down the steps.
Tanis8472
Guru
Also a lot of them only take money 4-6 months a year 
