INTRODUCTION & DISCLAIMER - When Ian was a boy he didn't mean to get a crush on his pretty cousin Becky, but circumstances caused this. Now both he and Becky are aged 19 and he still secretly loves beautiful blonde Becky. And Ian and Becky are not regular cousins, they are double first cousins, so asking her out on a date is not an option. Like many people from Liverpool, Blackpool is the destination for the annual family summer holiday by the seaside. Will something interesting happen between Ian and Becky this summer? Find out by reading 'Banging Cousin Becky In Blackpool' and getting to know Ian and Becky in this story set in Blackpool during its heyday.
All characters and events in this story are fictional and any similarity real people living or dead coincidental and unintentional. Only characters aged 18 and older are in any sexual situations. Please enjoy, and rate and comment.
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Memories of early childhood tend to be vague and incomplete, small and inaccurate snippets of life that stay in the mind among many other events long forgotten. One of my most detailed and pleasant early childhood memories for me was of a summer holiday to Blackpool when I was aged three. Every summer like thousands of others from the North of England our family would make the trip from our home in Liverpool and travel through Lancashire to relax and have fun by the seaside in Blackpool.
The day I remembered so well was a particularly nice day with bright sunshine and warm temperatures and the beach between the Central and South Piers was crowded with hundreds of people, many of them enjoying the sun in deckchairs, these people including my parents, aunt and uncle. Some of the men at the beach with their own families wore shirts, ties, jackets and hats, like they were dressed for work at the office rather than a day at the seaside.
A pleasant breeze blew in from the Irish Sea and gulls flew overhead, emitting their shrill cries. The iconic Blackpool Tower dominated the skyline, and motor cars negotiated the busy roads near the beach, keeping out of the path of the many trams that went by. The Pleasure Beach was in the distance to the south, but close enough to see the Big Dipper in action. Of course I was a bit young to understand what a roller coaster was, thinking that it was a weird tram and I hoped that my parents would stick to travel on normal trams and not make me go on the strange tram as it looked a bit scary.
I played happily on the sand with my twin sister Jenny and our cousin Becky, who was aged three like us. Becky's brother Danny, 15 months younger than her was a bit young to join us. Instead he ran around having recently discovered that while walking beat crawling, running got you places faster, my aunt and uncle frequently having to go and bring him back when he ran too far away. Also with us were our other cousins Sam and Katie, aged four and three respectively. The five of us had two buckets and spades and were trying to build a sandcastle that looked like Blackpool Tower, but probably our ambitions were not matched by our abilities.
Later that afternoon, Jenny, Becky, Danny, Sam, Katie and I were treated to a donkey ride on the beach and after a walk on the promenade and pier with our parents, we had tea, the six of us enjoying jelly and ice-cream for dessert. Being just under two years of age, more of Danny's ice-cream ended up on his face than in his mouth.
It was such a wonderful day and everyone around Blackpool - kids, teenagers, grown-ups and older people - were all having fun, and it was like nobody had a care in the world. Jenny, Becky, Danny, Sam, Katie and I of course were too young at the time to know that behind the smiles and fun, adults, teenagers and older children were probably feeling a great deal of apprehension.
This magical day at the beach took place in July 1939, and we knew nothing about what was happening in Europe nor should we have given our young ages at the time. Just six weeks later on the day of Sunday, 3rd September I had another day that stood out in my early childhood memories, but not a pleasant one. Sitting with my parents, sister aunt and uncle and cousins Becky and Danny we listened to the radio shortly before noon where Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announced that due to the invasion of Poland, Great Britain was now at war with Germany. Later that day I got to hear a terrifying sound that unfortunately we would become all too familiar with over the next few years, the eerie wail of an air raid siren which sounded as part of a test, followed by the all clear.
A few weeks later, Jenny, Becky, Danny and I were loaded onto a train at Liverpool Station along with thousands of other children and not to go back to Blackpool for another fun holiday by the seaside. Our parents had explained to us that an evil man named Hitler had taken over Poland and wanted to do the same to England, and it was important that we had to go and live in the country. We were told to treat it like an adventure and have fun, and that we would be back home soon.
So while Dad and Uncle Larry enlisted and Mum and Aunt Maggie remained in Liverpool to do war work suitable for women, home for Jenny, Becky, Danny and I became a farm in the Yorkshire Moors owned by an older couple whose children were all grown up and had left home. I was glad that we had all been kept together and not separated during the evacuation of England's major cities, but wished that there wasn't a war and we could go back home to Liverpool where we belonged especially as days turned to weeks, months and years and it became evident we weren't going home anytime soon.
I often thought about that magical holiday in Blackpool for summer 1939 during the early 1940s, and it seemed to be as far away in time as 1909. Would the war ever end and would we all be together as a family again and enjoying ourselves at home in Liverpool or on holidays in Blackpool? Many long days of worry about what was happening both in England and abroad and long nights made even darker by the blackout curtains and with our sleep interrupted by the distant wailing of the air raid sirens in the town as German planes passed by I thought not.
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