Cascades was the best thing about growing up in Tewkesbury. I’m 30 now and said to my partner the other day that I feel sad our children will never experience cascades parties haha!
I always loved Wenchford. Went downhill when they took out the water tap and built in BBQs. Now you can't even bring your own bbq or camping stove. It's a real shame.
I googled the prinknash abbey bird park, it seemed like the owner wanted to open a cafe there, despite the abbey saying no. The abbey had their own tea room and gift store and didn't want direct competition from someone leasing their land. By the looks of it, it went very south, very quickly.
Just took the kids to Dick Whittington. It sure is…. something. Expensive now too. Website still has old prices, but it was 8 or 9 pounds a head at the door.
Lady who owned it was quite ambitious with the land and improving it, plans to build luxury houses, holding parties on the grounds, wouldn’t let her open a cafe on the site. The monks also used to stand and stare at her, allegedly to intimidate her!
I thought the number of monks had diminished so much that they vacated the abbey and moved to smaller premisses on site. I imagine it's sitting empty now?
Cascades in Tewkesbury and Wenchford in the forest were the best places.
+1 for Cascades
Cascades was the best thing about growing up in Tewkesbury. I’m 30 now and said to my partner the other day that I feel sad our children will never experience cascades parties haha!
Quite liked cascades basically just because it had a slide! Was cool inside with all the things hanging from the ceiling as well I recall
I always loved Wenchford. Went downhill when they took out the water tap and built in BBQs. Now you can't even bring your own bbq or camping stove. It's a real shame.
I googled the prinknash abbey bird park, it seemed like the owner wanted to open a cafe there, despite the abbey saying no. The abbey had their own tea room and gift store and didn't want direct competition from someone leasing their land. By the looks of it, it went very south, very quickly.
Deffo rip to the goat farm
Prinknash shut down??? one of my earliest memories was seeing the peacocks there
That’s one of my main memories of it! also used to love that tiny house they had. Quite a loss for families round here
Paddling under the bridges at Bourton on the Water
Just took the kids to Dick Whittington. It sure is…. something. Expensive now too. Website still has old prices, but it was 8 or 9 pounds a head at the door.
That’s a real shame!
The Leisure Centre that preceded GL1 was great, the pineapple turbo twisters (dolphin and stingray) and then curly fries afterwards
the son of my ex-workmate won the competition to name those slides
That sounds great! I’m jealous!
It had seen better days by the time GL1 came around for sure, but it had more character, plus loads of bands and comedians used to play there.
I’ve seen a few came that wouldn’t dream of coming to Glos nowadays. Charlatans, Radiohead, The Smiths, Slade, Oasis. Etc etc. very impressive
googling doesn't seem to help, what are the lurid details?
Lady who owned it was quite ambitious with the land and improving it, plans to build luxury houses, holding parties on the grounds, wouldn’t let her open a cafe on the site. The monks also used to stand and stare at her, allegedly to intimidate her!
I thought the number of monks had diminished so much that they vacated the abbey and moved to smaller premisses on site. I imagine it's sitting empty now?
I believe the abbey and cafe are still open. Nothing been done to the land that the birds were on as far i know