Places
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Maps
115 maps found.
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Memories
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Visits To Captain Digby In 1960s
I remember our annual holiday to Kingsgate in the 1960s. We stayed in various guest houses in Percy Avenue and often walked down to Kingsgate Bay for a day on the beach. In 1965 I was aged 7 and remember the pub ...Read more
A memory of Kingsgate in 1965 by
Do You Know Lilla Allan Bryant
I am looking for my paternal grandmother or her relatives. Her name is Lilla Allan (nee Bryant). She was married to my grandad Haydon Fraser Allan who owned Allans Bakery at 147 Windsor Road in Neath. They married in ...Read more
A memory of Neath by
Childhood Memories Of Penrhyn Bay
My grandmother and grandfather lived at "Oaklands", in Maesgwyn Road, opposite a corrugated iron church. The road was unmade and beyond the church to the sea was a large meadow where cattle and sheep grazed. On the ...Read more
A memory of Penrhyn in 1930
Growing Up In Newton
I was born in the old cottage on the left, 175 High Street, in 1948, as June Glencross, my parents squatted there after the war, my dad became the local builder. In 1956 we moved up the road to the old congregational ...Read more
A memory of Newton-le-Willows in 1948 by
Ffrith Beach
Oh, the days of endless sunshine, carefree explorations up to the hills above our beloved Ffrith! I was one of the crowd who walked the donkeys and ponies on Ffrith Beach for Mr Pulleine. We walked for MILES during those happy times, ...Read more
A memory of Prestatyn in 1960
An American In Barassie
I lived at 51 Becah Road, Barassie, Troon. My step-father was in the U.S. Air Force and stationed at Prestwiick. I remember the gentleman who lived on the ground floor of our house. His name I think was George ...Read more
A memory of Troon in 1956 by
The Droves Connecting The Villages Of Houghton And Broughton
I have many memories of driving around the droves between Houghton, Broughton and up to the Beeches on the Buckboard, an old flatbed Austin 7 owned by Richard Carter and later ...Read more
A memory of Houghton in 1960 by
Birthplace And Never Forgotten When Asked
I was born in Dysart to a mining family of 5 brothers, me being in the middle. My mum watched over us all and used to take us walks by the man in the rock along to Wemyss and back via the castle estate. ...Read more
A memory of Dysart by
Foxs Riding School
I'm from the USA but my mom is from Yorkshire and we spend many happy summers in Filey with my grandparents (every is living here in Southern California now). They had a home near the beach and we would spend the weekends in ...Read more
A memory of Hunmanby in 1972 by
Childhood Memories
I lived in Alderley Edge as a child between 1947 and 1955. I remember going for walks on the Edge, and being told about a legend that Merlin and King Arthur and his knights were sleeping inside a cave there, waiting to be ...Read more
A memory of Alderley Edge in 1954 by
Captions
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Kiosks on the beach; donkey rides; parasols; shady hats.
Kiosks on the beach; donkey rides; parasols; shady hats.
If the beach was too far afield for the older generation, then there were plenty of seats and shelters along the clifftop where one could sit in the sun or the shade, and catch up with the
A large crowd is gathered on the beach in the centre of this photograph, possibly to watch 'Uncle Mac and his Minstrels.'
The Pavilion remains today an important venue for plays and concerts, surrounded by lovely gardens and with the beach and sea just across the road.
Possibly the last knotted hankie to be seen on an English beach.
There are several beached boats, the first complete with tender.
Back Beach was the fiefdom of William Curtis & Sons, boatmen and fish merchants from nearby Long Entry on Church Cliffs.
Coney Beach funfair was built in 1920 on an old ballast tip.
Rowing boats are drawn up on the small shingle beach on the west side of Charlestown harbour, with the Polmear Island rock behind.
This is the westerly end of Lydstep Cavern Beach; here we see the aptly named Saddle Back and Saddle Point, with the cave and fissures worn into the vertical strata of limestone.
Donkey rides, beach chairs, heavy clothes - these are the delights of a British seaside day out!
A view of one of the beaches which look out over Galway Bay to County Clare and the limestone landscape of the Burren.
Children with hoops play on the clifftop promenade, a breezy spot high above the beach.
Overdressed holidaymakers in sun hats enjoy the sands in this view from Great Western Beach towards the Atlantic Hotel on the headland of the Beacon.
The beach below White Cliff has long been one of Seaton's favoured bathing places, recommended in many guidebooks, though a charge of 4d was made during the earlier decades of the last
The three-gabled timber-framed building on the right is 14th century, and until recently was the well-known antiquarian bookshop, Beach's.
This is the first beach around the corner from the main breakwater of Par Harbour.
This view looks along the shingle beach which fronts the marshland towards Fairlight.
Long shadows indicate the end of a pleasurable day's sailing from this well-known beach.
This is a busy scene, with thousands of holidaymakers on the beach.
Aldeburgh lifeboats have always been launched straight from the shingle beach.
Two packed motorboats pass the beach chalets north of the Pier.
This view of Coney Beach shows ladies wearing long dresses, the men wearing suits and the children fully dressed - there is not a bathing costume in sight.
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