Saturday 11 September 2021

A Japanese Mountain Print From A Carbootsale.


 Not sure if I showed you this picture I bought at a carbootsale for 3 Euros in County Limerick a few weeks ago?

Me thinks it could be Mount Fushi me thinks?  Oh how  I love Japanese tea gardens.  I have some Japanese pottery and have very fond family holidays memories in Scarborough visiting the Japanese themed gardens Peasholm park.  There would be model naval frigates sea battles, a man playing a Wurlitzer style organ and it seemed like the sun shone every day.

Not a bad find all for 3 Euros and the subject for a blog post!


16 comments:

  1. It's nice that the Japanese print has brought back happy memories of family holidays in Scarbados when you were nobbut a lad.

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  2. Yep. Scarbados was the Las Vegas of the North when I was knee high to a whippet or a grasshopper even YP.

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  3. Beautiful. Serene. Now I want to visit the park you describe.

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  4. Thanks Terra. I would love to jump on a coach with my mum and dad and spend a week in Scarborough. Anyone know how to build a time machine? 😊

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  5. Scarbados sounds very exotic. I bet it's not like Bognor Regis near where I used to live, where they would wear knotted hankies on their heads and sit on deckchairs with their trouser legs rolled up?

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  6. Bognor Regis sounds perfect JayCee. A bag of chips, donkey ride and a large can of Watneys Party Seven and a Curly Wurly.😊

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  7. Not to forget the rowing boats - now almost completely displaced by swan pedalos. Still, a couple of circuits in a swan pedalo is fun.

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  8. Happy days Tasker. Not forgetting visiting the Spa, Futurist and Floral Hall theatres, visiting Ann Bronte's grave, Yorkshire cricket ground and Scarborough castle "One of the ruins that Cromwell knocked about a bit".

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  9. We went to Scarborough to see the Scarborough Road Races. I was about four and I thought the people spoke funny because of how they pronounced my name with a very long a. I like the Japanese print of Mount Fuji.

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  10. Great Scarborough memories Rachel. I also like the picture. It's so different.

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  11. Another treasure and a real bargain. I am so envious of your car boot sales.

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    1. Yes Linda. I think I have a treasure hunting gene.😊

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  12. Oh, I'm glad someone else remembers the naval battles - one of the highlights of our holidays in the early sixties - the other being the sea water swimming pool, complete with seaweed. It was a long journey from Preston to Dennis' caravan park with six of us packed in a hired Ford Anglia.

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  13. Thanks for your comment Beacee. We also came from Lancashire. We also often travelled over Belmont to Preston to the flea market on a Tuesday.

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