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royal_scot1.jpg (24467 bytes)Butlins?? Yes, well, if I can find a steam locomotive at a brewery (Bass) then I don't see why we can't have one at a holiday camp as well. Not just any locomotive either, Royal Scot itself, in the days when it slowly deteriorated away at Butlin's in Skegness. As you can see from the picture, this was obviously in my earliest steam-loving days! The chap with me is my father, who died when I was 16.
royal_scot2.jpg (15984 bytes)I remember going back to Skeggy the year after these photographs were taken and being heartbroken that they'd locked the gate in the fence around the engine, so I wasn't allowed to go on it any more.

Must be one of my earliest memories, that, not being allowed in the cab of the Royal Scot!
royal_scot3.jpg (15424 bytes)Funnily enough, I don't remember anything whatsoever about the little green engine behind it. I can't even remember it being there.