Site manager, George, used to cycle, very slowly, on an ancient black bike from his home about a mile away to the park, that peaceful haven with spectacular views over Kirkcudbright Bay Seaward joined the stable in autumn 1979.
YOUTUBE GRAMPS HOUSE FULL
The initial 9 hole golf course was opened in 1999 and extended seven years later to a full 18-hole 6,750 yard, par 73 SSS72 championship course (to non-golfers that means ‘with bells on’) In 1993 we went the whole hogg and put up the Leisure Club. We opened an outdoor swimming pool in 1978 and later added an indoor games room.
We started the pony trekking with some hardy Highlands in 1976. We put in the all-tide slipway in 1973 and hired out rowing boats, canoes and sailing dinghies, ran a water sports school and took boat trips round to Ross Island from the mid-70s and into the early 80s. The park expanded from tourers, seasonals and tents to include privately-owned larger holiday caravans, a small hire fleet and farm cottages for let. We sold raw organic milk from churns there too and Goldie, our old Palamino, gave children pony rides.
YOUTUBE GRAMPS HOUSE PATCH
Outside that old shop at the main toilet block, there’s a patch of grass where we used to feed and show our pet lambs to visitors.
The first old tractor in the children’s play area had a much more pedestrian life previously with Gramps.
Our first wardens, Percy and Mrs Mudd, ran the shop and park reception in what is now our family and disabled bathroom in the main toilet block. The shepherd’s cottage is now the warden’s home. They liked it so much they wanted to come back the following year, which got Dad thinking… He and Mum applied for planning permission and opened Brighouse Bay Holiday Park in 1970 alongside the family organic dairy, beef and sheep farms, Southpark and Cairniehill. In 1968 the Caravan and Camping Club asked to hold their summer rally in the lambing field (now home to the tourers). So it really is uncertain how the term charley horse came to be.We’re a family business, we love our home and we’ve been welcoming visitors to the Solway coast for over 40 years. No one knows who Charley was or why he may have had a lame horse. This term for a cramp or pulled muscle in the leg is originally a baseball term, or at least it first gained widespread use in baseball jargon. The first recorded use, again from the ADS archives, is from the Sporting Life of 1886 that and other citations suggest it was coined not long before. This piece said the term referred to the pitcher Charley Radbourne, nicknamed Old Hoss, who suffered this problem during a game in the 1880s the condition was then named by putting together his first name and the second half of his nickname. The American Dialect Society’s archives reproduced a story that was printed in the Washington Post in 1907, long enough after the event that people were trying to explain something already mysterious. There’s a persistent story that the original Charley was a lame horse of that name that pulled the roller at the White Sox ballpark in Chicago near the end of last century. There are lots of theories about the term’s origin. It refers to a painful involuntary cramp in a leg muscle, usually that of an athlete, as a result of a muscular strain or a blow. It dates from the 1880s, and may have been originally baseball slang. “Charley horse” is an American expression of uncertain origin. In answer to your question, in the first place “charlie horse” is spelled “charley horse.” Here’s my question: Why do they call charlie-horses, charlie-horses? Seriously! I’ll be expecting a real answer. Thank you so much for doing this column!! Let me know if you get this and if it’s confusing at all.
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