Thanks for all your interesting comments.
As you so correctly pointed out, they were cheap holidays and cheaper still once the charter holidays started in the late 60s.
I can remember speaking to an old chap who was just going for the w/e.
I notice a few people have put a video on You Tube during the time that I knew Spain, a lot of nostalga, but I have a brother who now lives in Spain.
Last weekend, in Rutland, the first statue in Britain of the late Elizabeth II was unveiled.