How To Use Charabanc In A Sentence
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Many ‘set off’ for a week, usually to Blackpool or Morecambe, travelling on specially laid-on holiday trains or the slower-but cheaper charabanc.
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To hear some of my friends in politics and political journalism talk, you would think that democracy is a kind of jolly charabanc on to which all reasonable citizens have clambered, even if we may argue about the route.
Archive 2004-06-06
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‘Let's get the charabanc out and take the whole town to Tamworth,’ smiles Harvey.
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In our file of five charabancs, a charioted army, we swept down the thundering hills.
Cider With Rosie
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‘Appalling mass of cars and charabancs… disgorging Women's Institute dames with white crimped hair and legs awry ’, he noted of Forde Abbey.
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I plan to take a charabanc of my friends there shortly.
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There were rare excursions to seaside or country by train or charabanc, or the occasional boat trip on Lough Neagh.
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The Morecambe Silver Band met the special trains at Kendal Station and the children were marched to New Road, where a procession was formed with the younger ones being carried on charabancs and lorries.
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Teilo wanted to take me on a charabanc to Brighton, sixty-five shillings all in, but I'm not a person who needs holidays.
MR STARLIGHT
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Many English seaside towns seem as if they are stuck in a time warp, in an era when families and charabancs full of factory workers would converge on the shore for fun and frolics.
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There are those on bicycles and charabancs, in schoolrooms, around maypoles, and beside aspidistras.
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With Jack away on one of his charabanc trips, Andy Kerr had a fit and said we should send some of the ‘boys’ round to kick in a few doors.
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Even so, annual leave was spreading more generally through society, as was the use of the car and other motorised forms of transport such as the charabanc.
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Who needs to worry about defectors when you have someone inside the Government, shoving a brick on the accellerator and pointing the party charabanc at a wall...
Hazel Blears Calls it As She Sees It
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From a charabanc hung red, green and white flags at every window.
A Small Death in the Great Glen
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Many English seaside towns seem as if they are stuck in a time warp, in an era when families and charabancs full of factory workers would converge on the shore for fun and frolics.
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Perhaps this is just the modern day equivalent to the old Charabanc trip to the sea side.
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On cold, wet, ragged mornings they were all like that in my first year I'd board this ice-box of a charabanc and be greeted, without fail, with the same transmission comprising of music videos for 'Black Hole Sun' by Soundgarden and 'Out Of Tears' by The Rolling Stones.
Archive 2005-11-01
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They were going to Clacton in what he called a “charabanc.”
Portobello
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The plot centres around the annual charabanc trip to Whitby by a group of Nottinghamshire 60-year-olds.
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You've no doubt guessed the festive twist already; yes, instead of trundling around sunny southern Europe, the titular charabanc will slowly wend its way to Lapland, culminating in a meeting with "the real Father Christmas".
It's a good week for … Spurious Festive Specials
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The courtesy charabanc would take him down to the Rooty Hill Railway station.
FAIRYLAND
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The People's car: hundreds of day-trippers brave the discomfort of a fleet of charabancs at Plymouth in 1922.
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Once again he saw himself, as if in a nightmare, watching impotently as the bizarre charabanc of facts and conjecture hurtled on its predestined course.
She Closed Her Eyes
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My mother was once in a charabanc that went under a railway bridge in Bedfordshire and then slowly tipped over and deposited them all into a ditch.
Chez Moi
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By clever design, the same basic Sheppee body could be used as a charabanc to transport passengers or converted into a goods wagon.
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We set out at a cracking pace and met only charabancs overloaded with defiant voters.
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I never thought that anything could make Alma or the Kabul retreat seem like a charabanc picnic, but that day did, and I was through it, dawn to dusk, as no other man was.
The Sky Writer
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Paying for a charabanc for a trip to London for a Rowen led protest.
The Thursday Cyril: Rochdale Lib Dems Brickwall
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This was a spontaneous movement of ordinary people, produced partly by a growing scholarly interest in astronomical associations at the site, and partly by inventions such as the bicycle and the charabanc.
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You don't take off in a charabanc at 5.30 am on a Sunday lightly.
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All he had ever seen of Skipton was, as a boy, pressing his nose to the windows of a charabanc as he and his family passed through the town on the way to their annual holidays in Morecambe.
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We used to have a caravan at Knott End and went there every summer in a charabanc.
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The team returned to Skipton and travelled by charabanc past cheering crowds to a reception at the town hall.
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Only in recent years would the lesser team have more fittingly arrived in a charabanc than a team bus.
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Every year, since it started, British hacks have had a choice of charabancs and chemin-de-fers to take them to the gruesome National Exhibition Centre just outside Birmingham.
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Gilliam noted, ‘In Britain, it was banned in different towns; what that meant was that people in those towns organised charabancs and went to the neighbouring town where it was showing.’
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They invested £200 in an ex-army charabanc that cost them a further £586 to repair and restore, which was just the start of their fleet of vehicles.
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On the 16th the Battalion embussed outside Steenvoorde, and after leaving the charabancs at Petite Synthe, they marched to billets at
The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918
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By clever design, the same basic Sheppee body could be used as a charabanc to transport passengers or converted into a goods wagon.
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Such was his befuddlement at that stage that the supporter could not trace his shoes, so rather than miss the bus to the city, he ran downstairs and jumped aboard the charabanc.