A talking minah bird at Hesketh Park.
 
The Boulevard Grill.
 
The train stopping at the stations in the Model Village.
 
The Promenade Hospital.

The Victoria Baths consisting of The Birdie (Birdy?) baths and The Premier Plunge baths.

Red and cream Corporation buses.
 
The Ribble bus station at one end of Lord Street.
 
A building near the front with the word "Cafe" painted on its roof.
 
The Aquarium and Tea Rooms.
 
The Rowing Boats on the lake at the Botanic Gardens.
 
The original train on the pier that took an age to get to its destination. 
 
The Lakeside Miniature Railway that didn't.

Sand on the pavements that had blown in from the beach.
 
The marram grass on the dunes at Ainsdale.
 
The red squirrels at Freshfield.
 
Of course the visits to both Pleasureland and Peter Pan's Playground (later to become Happiland).
 
Welcome to the Southport of the late sixties and early seventies seen through the rose tinted glasses of themagiceye...