Places you went to on school trips

[Cian]

Primary/Lower end of secondary school
Coca Cola Factory
Newgrange
Kilmainham Jail
Every other random Irish place to go to

Higher end of secondary school:
Switzerland
Northern Ireland

 

[Basil Fawlty]

Primary School- Hever Castle
Kingswood Centre

Secondary School- France in Year Seven
Cuckmere Valley

College- Thorpe Park
London

 

[medicine man]

Fab!
right, enginerium (?)
Shoreham power station
Arundel Wildfowl Trust (incl. swanbourne lake)
South Bank Theatre- A View From A Bridge
Palladium -Ziegfield Follies (itself rather a folly)
Connaught Theatre- Two man play about Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon (how bloody high brow!)
Week trip to Charmouth in Dorest- where fossills were invented.
incl. trips to Yeovil Fleet Air Arm Museum, Exeter Maritime Museum, A Butterfly Farm,
Gold Hill (where the Hovis ad was filmed), Axminster Carpet Factory and cattle market (bought me a heiffer), Lyme Regis and I'm sure some I've missed- it was 25yrs ago!


oh, and a place with lots of rebuilt old houses...



but, I'm sure that wouldn't interest you...


...although there was a REAL animal SKULL on a fence post on the way to the Weald and Downland Museum, kind of exciting for 8yr olds!!

Yeah, good thread, and I thought we didn't go to many places at school!

 

[ROSM]

...................Week trip to Charmouth in Dorest- where fossills were invented..............!

how do you INVENT fossils?

 

[Gwylan]

spooky, i thought of the weald museum straight away, seeing this thread.. has anyone NOT ben there?!

I'm with Yorkie on this: I've not been there,


Blimey, it's no wonder that the older generation is better educated: we spent our days studying while you kids spent your time poncing around.

 

[medicine man]

how do you INVENT fossils?

I did go along time ago, I can't remember what the plaque said!

 

[Dave the OAP]

I always thought fossils were`invented at Lulworth Cove in Dorset?

 

[Frutos]

- Cotswold Farm Park
- Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
- Natural History Museum
- A Roman Villa I can't remember the name of
- Poole (residential)
- Bristol (residential)
- Whitby (residential)
- Somewhere in France (residential, somewhere near Bayeux and Mont St. Michel)
- Barcelona

 

[medicine man]

I always thought fossils were`invented at Lulworth Cove in Dorset?

Exactly!

Charmouth houses the museum.

Lulworth Cove was the place of the invention.

Sense, from a Northerner no less!

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

Spent my early years in what is now known as the West Midlands so it was Blenheim Palace, (which I recently went back to and thought Brilliant) Dudley Zoo and St Andrews/Villa Park. (Our football coach had played for Villa so had good connections)

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

Primary School: -
Chessington Zoo (as it was then)
Balcombe (why?)
Week trip to Dorset/Somerset/Wiltshire etc - Stonehenge (when you could stand on the stones), Wilton Carpet Factory, Cheddar Gorge, Lulworth Cove, Wooky Hole, snog with Yvonne Gregg.

Secondary School:-
Dieppe - day trip
Interlaken - two weeks
Lugano - two weeks

Leicester Poly (De Montfort Univ) Engineers Society*:-
Melton Mowbray - Pedegree Pet Foods (with product sampling)
Amsterdam - incl trip to Heineken Brewery and the usual sights, sounds and smells etc.

*But I'm a chemist?

Helped on my kids primary School trip to the Weald and Downland Museum - does this count?

 

[Lord Bracknell]

If theatre trips count ...

Many, many trips to the old Birmingham Rep Theatre.

The ones that I remember are the ones when Julie Christie was part of the company.

 

[Dr Q]

Same as many others:
Singleton,
Birdworld (near Guildford),
Marwell,
Science Museum, Natural History Museum and Geological Museum,
Farm near Lancing College (Botolphs?),
Ardingly South of England Show,
Calais,
Beechams (!),
Dungeness Power Station,
School camps at Petworth, Swanage, New Forest and Isle of Wight
Geology Field trips to Dorset, Cornwall, Shropshire.
Was supposed to go on a school exchange in India, but it got cancelled due to the Air India Bombing in the early 80's


A bit different these days, my missus is currently organising a trip to Namibia for her school

 

[Rambo]

Youngsters it's been a while since anybody called me that.

I've remembered this morning that we went to some farm near Lancing College, to examine the dew pond and traditional Sussex farming methods, how exciting, to Washbrooks Farm in Hurstpierpoint (only about five minutes from my school anyway), and to Worth Church in Crawley, to do some brass rubbings. Woo-hoo.

At secondary school I did a watersports trip to the South of France, and ski-ing in Italy. Where we discovered that Europeans have a far more relaxed attitude to kids drinking alcohol than Brits do

Coombe Farm

 

[Caveman]

I went on a trip to a fish finger factory in Germany. It stank.

That brings back memories of a one night stand.

 

[British Bulldog]

London zoo
Fishbourne roman thingy
H.M.S. Victory
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