Croyde, Bay And Baggy Point 1936
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Photo of Croyde, Bay And Baggy Point 1936

More about this scene

Today, behind the tents and huts to the right there is a massice holiday camp development. Despite that, this is still the preferred beach for locals, and laver seaweed (the edible kind) is harvested here whenever the month has an 'R' in it. The furthest hill - Baggy Point - was notorious for shipwrecks in an earlier age.

A Selection of Memories from Croyde

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Croyde

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So happy to have found this. This was my grans home. My great grandmother owned this shop. We have just come back from a visit to see my grans oldest friend who still lives in Georgeham and used to work from my great grandmother in this shop. Amazing I will need to order this.
I was born and lived the early years of my life in South Molton.   My father had his own building firm there.   In 1958 we moved to Croyde Bay my father having bought this large house on the cliffs above the bay for £1800.   This photo shows it before it became a motel.   He put a new roof on the property in tiles rather than the slates which were normally used at that time.   He then converted the top floor into our new ...see more