When I was a young boy we used to go on holiday to Mablethorpe, which is a seaside town in Lincolnshire. In Leicester (where I was born and lived until I was 21 years old) the city, which at the time was largely industrial and famed for its shoe making and light engineering, had a two week holiday usually called the ‘Leicester Fortnight’ when the factories were closed and pretty much the whole city went on holiday. As Mablethrope and Skegness were the closet seaside towns to Leicester a large number of holidaymakers went there.
Once there, Mablethorpe was awash with Leicestrians and the local paper ‘The Leicester Mercury’ was sold in the Mablethorpe newsagents. Over the years I holidayed there many times and had fun with my Uncles and Cousins and other family members as we were always there at the same time.
This song reminds me of my holidays and the summer of 1978 as I bought my copy of the single from a record shop on Mablethorpe High Street. I had heard the song on the radio and liked it and bought mine with the holiday spending money I had been provided with.
This song was a huge hit and managed to get to number 3 in the charts and remained a best seller for a number of weeks but it will always be a black record with a yellow green label in a yellow and green ‘Harvest’ records sleeve for me and one of my favourite songs in the first year I joined the music buying public.
Now listen to the song….
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