Gone - but not forgotten!

It was a lovely ste at Ardgarten.On the river side with views down the loch. We used it a lot and the only one in that area. Noticed it closed and went into disrepair. The CC & C had a site on theother side of the river. No idea why it closed.

Coming down The Rest-and-be-Thankful this week I recalled that there was once a Club site at Ardgarten. It got me wondering about other "lost" sites and the memories people had of them.  What are YOUR memmories?

Do I remember correctly that there was once a Blackpool North site?

I'm from Blackpool and I don't ever remember there being a Caravan Club site in the north area of Blackpool.

Maybe somebody else knows.

It was a lovely ste at Ardgarten.On the river side with views down the loch. We used it a lot and the only one in that area. Noticed it closed and went into disrepair. The CC & C had a site on theother side of the river. No idea why it closed.

Midges ate everyone. Nothing left 

We loved Ardgarten - but only went the once. The midges! The worst we're ever experienced. Vast drifts of them by the toilet block walls in the morning.

I'm from Blackpool and I don't ever remember there being a Caravan Club site in the north area of Blackpool.

What I remember is towing to it along the then new access road from the motorway and looking down onto the other site that was, and still is, Blackpool South.  However, my recolection is that Blackpool North wasn't in the north of Blackpool, just that it was north of the other one!   And still south of the tower.

I can remember staying on a cc site at "The Old Station"  Auldgirth?in Dunfries & Galloway any one remember that?

Still got site plaque somewhere,

What about Sandringham when it was a no toilets site?

My wife, when touring as a child with her parents remembers fondly the club site near Derby at Elvaston Castle. A few years ago the site roads and pitches were still there though overgrown.

Coed Helen springs to mind.

Coed Helen Closure

Published: 01 November 2011

Coed Helen Caravan Club Site closed for the winter season yesterday, 31 October. We regret to inform you that the management contract on this site has come to an end and therefore will be removed from the site network for the 2012 season.

Coed Helen, that's another one closed in last four, five years then. I know Club has built and opened a couple in last few years, Barnard Castle and Bridlington, but surely time to spend a bit of the profits pot on another new Club owned site? Built from scratch the Club could do something completely innovative, instead of piggy backing Morris Leisure and other AS sites. I suppose a lot depends on land costs though, and any local opposition.

I'm from Blackpool and I don't ever remember there being a Caravan Club site in the north area of Blackpool.

What I remember is towing to it along the then new access road from the motorway and looking down onto the other site that was, and still is, Blackpool South.  However, my recolection is that Blackpool North wasn't in the north of Blackpool, just that it was north of the other one!   And still south of the tower.

When you say 'looking down onto the other site ...', I'm wondering if you're thinking of what is the traveller site which you can see from the elevated position of Yeadon Way leading from the end of the M55 into the centre of Blackpool as I'm pretty sure that you can't actually see the Blackpool South site from the main road; only from Cropper Road itself.

Perhaps my memory isn't what it was.