Remembrance of Things Past
This picture was taken a little after I left the town for further down the coast. I believe that the large building was called the Marine Cafe. A real and rare treat was to go and have a Knickerbocker Glory in a tall glass seated on tall stools at tall tables! To the right, on the beach at the base of the wall, was an outlet for a large constantly running drain, mostly street runoff I think. My sister and I spent many happy hours playing there, making dams and pools, building rickety bridges and so on. Today's Health and Safety would have had a dozen fits but we survived. Meanwhile the whole beach waited just behind us and eventually we would go and dig sea coal, skip on the rocks at low tide, squeeze through the Needle's Eye. A splendid childhood in a lovely place.
There were several shops around the Square (Marine Parade?) and as they sold a lot of bright souvenirs and toys to day visitors they were a magnet for us children.
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The square in the picture in front of Bertorellis ice cream parlour was originally called The Bridge. That is because the fisher end was cut off from the rest of the town by a stream from the Blue Holes and there was a bridge over the stream here. This was drained into a culvert probably when the promenade was built in 1932, and that is what the drain was that was played in by all and sundry. Until the promenade was built, the bridge area was regularly subject to flooding both by fresh water and by high tides from the sea, virtually cutting off the fisher end.
Now it is called the Piazza! Don't think it looks very italianate.
Comment from Richard Spedding on Sunday, 4th January 2009.