I am on their mailing list and send their alerts on to my wife in a ‘jokey fashion’ when they arrive, as she once expressed an interest in the place (along with every other place imagineable that anyone could have a holiday).
My next door neighbour had a caravan there for some time in the 80’s.
We were going to have our caravan there, but then then my Dad got done for DD (for the third time) and we sold the Caravan…
3 January 2014
nigel
Lived about 5 mins walk from it for about 10 years in the 80s and 90s – it was about 8 years into that period before I set foot in the place. Suppose that’s because I don’t have a caravan and had no kids to take to the “amusements”. I remember it being badly affected by flooding once or twice, especially the easter when the good friday agreement was sorted out in Ireland – can’t remember / be bothered to google which year that was!!
3 January 2014
Bobby SVARC
I Caught a 22Ib pike out of Heron Lake in 1981 and as I was netting it another one shot out of the reeds and attacked it.
3 January 2014
Third Rate Les
Was the one that attacked it even bigger?
And was it on a spinner?
3 January 2014
EXXO
I like the way someone on the Billing town wikipedia page with a grudge against the caravanners has tried to put people off by suggesting that the place stinks cos of the local tip.
If the band ever play the ‘drome, in a festival along the lines of Camber Sands organised by me & my mum, which could be very wet indeed, I’m sure they’ll have made sure to stop off and tell the villagers of Lower Billing what the villagers of Top Billing have been saying about them.They might also give a discount to E. Billing residents.
Just be glad I never did ‘put it in the microwave till its Bill Withers’ in the ‘Bill’ thread.
3 January 2014
Bobby SVARC
Believe it or not it was at a guess under 10lb, and it was taken on a dead sea bait, Herring I think. Saw pike taking Moorhens/Coots off there regularly.
3 January 2014
Chris Quinn
We had a holiday there in the early 70s, and my younger brother fell in the river – he claims he was pulled in by a fish!
5 January 2014
Bobby SVARC
WHAT!!!!!!! Fish, the gargantuan Scotch rocker pulled your brother into the river Nene?
5 January 2014
Ivan mauger’s jap
Special Stage 34 of the 1973 RAC Rally was run at Billing. Dull but true.
14 February 2014
Batley’s very own… Steve malkmus
One of those places most people are only aware of from seeing brown signs on the motorway. See also Diggerland, Webb’s of Wychbold.
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Robert Coook
I am on their mailing list and send their alerts on to my wife in a ‘jokey fashion’ when they arrive, as she once expressed an interest in the place (along with every other place imagineable that anyone could have a holiday).
My next door neighbour had a caravan there for some time in the 80’s.
We were going to have our caravan there, but then then my Dad got done for DD (for the third time) and we sold the Caravan…
3 January 2014
nigel
Lived about 5 mins walk from it for about 10 years in the 80s and 90s – it was about 8 years into that period before I set foot in the place. Suppose that’s because I don’t have a caravan and had no kids to take to the “amusements”. I remember it being badly affected by flooding once or twice, especially the easter when the good friday agreement was sorted out in Ireland – can’t remember / be bothered to google which year that was!!
3 January 2014
Bobby SVARC
I Caught a 22Ib pike out of Heron Lake in 1981 and as I was netting it another one shot out of the reeds and attacked it.
3 January 2014
Third Rate Les
Was the one that attacked it even bigger?
And was it on a spinner?
3 January 2014
EXXO
I like the way someone on the Billing town wikipedia page with a grudge against the caravanners has tried to put people off by suggesting that the place stinks cos of the local tip.
If the band ever play the ‘drome, in a festival along the lines of Camber Sands organised by me & my mum, which could be very wet indeed, I’m sure they’ll have made sure to stop off and tell the villagers of Lower Billing what the villagers of Top Billing have been saying about them.They might also give a discount to E. Billing residents.
Just be glad I never did ‘put it in the microwave till its Bill Withers’ in the ‘Bill’ thread.
3 January 2014
Bobby SVARC
Believe it or not it was at a guess under 10lb, and it was taken on a dead sea bait, Herring I think. Saw pike taking Moorhens/Coots off there regularly.
3 January 2014
Chris Quinn
We had a holiday there in the early 70s, and my younger brother fell in the river – he claims he was pulled in by a fish!
5 January 2014
Bobby SVARC
WHAT!!!!!!! Fish, the gargantuan Scotch rocker pulled your brother into the river Nene?
5 January 2014
Ivan mauger’s jap
Special Stage 34 of the 1973 RAC Rally was run at Billing. Dull but true.
14 February 2014
Batley’s very own… Steve malkmus
One of those places most people are only aware of from seeing brown signs on the motorway. See also Diggerland, Webb’s of Wychbold.
21 November 2015