Take a charabanc!
| Most day trips by road in the 1920s were made in open top buses called ‘charabancs’. Charabancs were named after a French phrase meaning ‘carriage with benches’. Their modern equivalent is a coach. |  |
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Imagine it is a bank holiday and, having saved very hard, you now have enough money to pay for a day out in a charabanc. What do you think you might be feeling when you woke up that morning? What will you wear? What will you need to take with you? Is this the first day trip you have been on?
Write or draw your ideas.
Often, day trips were organised by church groups for their members, or by factories for their workers. Trips were often to the seaside or beauty spots such as the Peak District and Dartmoor.
This photograph was taken in 1921 and shows a fleet of charabancs in Bolton, Lancashire ready for a Cooperative Society outing.
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