Hello Polly.cam, welcome. We did Torquay, Brixham and that area and the north Devon coast 50's/early 60's. I can remember the rain, getting up in the middle of the night to travel to holiday and traffic jams to Devon. Warned that If I asked 'are we nearly there yet' that we would turn around and go back home
Dad decided to take us up and down Porlock hill on the motorbike and sidecar. Coming down was the worse with my mom shouting at my dad to 'slow down' and him shouting back 'I cant, the brakes are not very good'!
There wasn't much money about but as kids we always had a holiday every year.
Only stayed in boarding house once for holiday in Alexandra Rd, Blackpool. Four of us in one room, a sink with cold tap, the owner of the boarding house would bring big jugs of hot water in the morning to each room for washing, shared toilet on the landing. Boarding houses definitely not for me.