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Kirkcaldy Castle Near The Beach
I used to play in the castle and what we thought were dungeons in the middle to late 1950s. It was our playground for many years. We went to the beach nearly every day summer or winter. Loved the place to bits. My ...Read more
A memory of Kirkcaldy in 1957 by
Ladies Hairdressers At Instow
My mother - Hilda Florence Allen - worked as a hairdresser in Instow for a time during the Second World War. At the time she was married to Douglas Steer although the marriage did not survive long and she later joined the ...Read more
A memory of Instow in 1940 by
Kennack
I have been coming to Kennack since I was a toddler. But 1972 was the first of many years that stand out to me. My family met another family and we are still in touch now, 36 years and more later. My memories are so many, borrowing ...Read more
A memory of Kennack Sands in 1972
A Tiny Hamlet Lost In Time
The year was 1970. Myself and a friend were typical 15 year old youths of the time, well, typical for our type of neighborhood. We had long hair, pierced ears, denim jeans and jackets and owned but a couple of shillings ...Read more
A memory of Trelights in 1970 by
A Beautiful Place
I arrived in 1953 to live with my father and stepmother in Marbury. I have very mixed feelings of my life here. The countryside was beautiful, my love of nature and animal life has never left me. Bill's lawns (our name for the ...Read more
A memory of Marbury in 1953 by
Holidays In The 1950s
My parents and I used to stay in a bungalow owed by a Mr & Mrs Tidy and I was made to keep it tidy! I loved the sandy beach and remember playing deck tennis on the sand. Next door was a family with three girls, their ...Read more
A memory of St Mary's Bay by
The Beach
When I look at these old photos, Sheringham has not changed that much, it's very strange though seeing the old Grand Hotel. I used to take the ponies round the roundabout as a young child to earn money during the summer. The water trough is still there but full of flowers instead of horses' noses.
A memory of Sheringham by
Family Holidays
My dad always ensured that we had a "fortnight's" family holiday each year. A fortnight was 2 weeks - ie fourteen nights. These holidays started in 1949, when I was seven and continued to up to 1958 when I was 16. In 1949 and ...Read more
A memory of Bournemouth in 1949 by
Youthful Pranks In Binstead! 1958 1962
I am a 67 year old British citizen and have lived for over 40 years as a rock musician in Germany. I went to Ryde School in the 60s. After I left I was lonely living in London and used come back to the island ...Read more
A memory of Binstead by
The Donkey Path
Re The Donkey path. I think Joanne is wrong - I know the embankment you speak of, there used to be a miniature railway which ran along the bottom of the embankment from the Prom entrance of Erias Park along to the Pier. The Donkey ...Read more
A memory of Old Colwyn in 1980 by
Captions
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Here we can see the busy beach scene complete with the 19th- century pier.
Here we can see the busy beach scene complete with the 19th-century pier.
A delightful evocative view of the 1950s showing, on the left, the beach in full use.
We are looking north-west across Towan Beach towards the harbour, one of the more sheltered on this exposed coast, built in the lee of Towan Head which protects it from the brunt of the ferocious Atlantic
The characteristic mid-Victorian, family-orientated, open-air seaside culture, which offered a satisfaction of its own, and the town's secure, peaceful ambience is captured in this view of the beach.
A typical late Victorian beach scene, with donkey rides, a complete absence of skin exposed to the sun, and a photographer's equipment - a tripod and a cart for storing the glass plates - to the left of
Margate's famous Jubilee clock tower is prominent in this picture of the beach.
It is a clear and sunny day, but very few people are on the beach.
The natural scenery of the Bournemouth coastline dictated the way the new town developed.
Built on the opposite side of the beach to the harbour in the mid 19th century, Hartland Terrace still has some of its original buildings despite the encroachment of hotels.
The tide is well and truly out.
Fishing boats and pleasure boats crowd the harbour close under the pier, while holiday-makers throng the beach.
The cliff has a tendency to crumble, and has blocked the path to the beach several times in recent years.
Early visitors faced a long climb to Babbacombe after a day on the beaches, but in the 1920s a cliff railway - still in use today - was built, making the journey much easier.
Doubtless state-of-the-art in 1955, these flat-roofed terraced beach huts typify the immense popularity of the post-War summer seaside holiday and day trips, but have long been demolished.
Charlie's Mast overlooks the boating pool, which seems to be the only form of children's entertainment left on the beach area.
Obviously, photographing children playing on the beach was a popular theme for postcard makers.
Sail boats and bathing machines dominate the beach area between the North Pier and the South Jetty.
Visitors to the great sandy beach at Perranporth can also explore the caves and arches in the cliffs on the west side at low tide.
Another view of the beach at Canvey Island shows children busily playing around the many deckchairs.
Fern Pit, at the mouth of the Gannel, was owned by generations of Northeys, who also ran the ferry to Crantock, which is in the background on the other side of Crantock Beach.
A tremendous visual change here is that there are now no breakwater defences along the beach.
Fishing boats, still all sailing craft at this date, are moored in the shelter of the two piers.
A nostalgic scene of tiny Dooega, a cluster of cottages on the south western seaboard of Achill.
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