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Time For The Beach Miss Patricia May
This is one of my biggest memories of growing up in Port Isaac: On summer days my mum Joyce May would take me and my sister Elizebath to Port Gavern beach for the day. My mum would make a packed lunch for us ...Read more
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Fairfield House
I was at Fairfield house about 1963 i was five I remember mrs fisher.and I remember.that in the summer we used to have an afternoon sleep in the garden.I had such a wonderful time there .I remember we used to go to the beach and ...Read more
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Childhood Memories
We used to stay at an Aunt's caravan just beyond the amusement park. One day - I think I would have been about 3 - I fell head first into the boating pond - luckily my cousin was there to haul me out - I remember being covered ...Read more
A memory of St Osyth
Lost At Sea
I spent many of my younger years in the 60s at Ladram bay . One particular afternoonI took out a small Dingey with a Dutch friend and we did not arrive back until dark Only to see many lights on the beach we jumped out of the Dingey and ...Read more
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The 1950s
I well remember what seemed like an age, the summer holidays of the early 1950s. My brother and I would spend all day on the beach or after the harvest playing stage coaches with the bales of hay in the field in Stocks Lane. In ...Read more
A memory of Bracklesham Bay
St Osyth, Essex Paradise Lost
My Grandmother already lived in St Osyth, so from 1927 to 1939 we always had two weeks vacation at St Osyth. Coming from London this was paradise. Water by the bucket from the hydrant (you had your own key for this). No ...Read more
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Holiday Fellowship At Cliff House, Marske By The Sea Early 1960s
One of my very first memories was of a family holiday spent at the HF Cliff House around 1961 - I would have been 4 years old and my brother Stephen maybe 18 months. I remember ...Read more
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Happiness
Hi in the seventies every summer my late husband, myself and our three children stayed in an old caravan on Plas Hen farm,and they were the happiest of times. We could walk down Lon Geod to go to Afon Wen beach,and a more lovelier walk is ...Read more
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Happy Days
I, Allen Rix, was born and grew up in Jersey Marine from 1933 to 1951 when I left to join the RAF. Living through World War 2 was hard for a lot of people but for us it was a gat time, even though we had to endure the bombing of ...Read more
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From The Pews Of The Church In Kilinian To Pioneers In Colonial Australia. The Patterson Clan.
The Church at Kilinian during the 18th and 19th century, if not earlier, was a Celtic Presbyterian Church where my ancestors, the Patterson and McClean ...Read more
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The hotel served both the community (which had grown greatly in the 19th century after the colliery was opened) and railway travellers, for it stands near where the pre-Beeching station was.
On the apocryphal 'clear day' it is possible to see the Malvern Hills, Bromsgrove, the Lickey Hills, Frankley Beeches, Clent, Abberley and the Clee Hills.
As the railways since Lord Beeching's cuts do not visit Louth, the sign (left) pointing to the station has also gone.
It is also unusual (in this region) in being composed mainly of beech trees, though there are other species too, notably oak and sweet chestnut.
Up to the time of Dr Beeching's 'axe', its station at nearby Mardock was served by the single track Buntingford Branch railway line which also ran through the villages of Widford, Hadham, Standon, Braughing
The Beeching plan axed the Otley to Skipton line via Ilkley with the final through train on Saturday 20th March 1965.
The fine lawn in front of the house was often the venue for tennis tournaments in the inter-war period, and the fine copper beech tree (right) still stands.
In the distance we can see Sambourne Hospital, formerly the Union Workhouse, built in 1836; it is now a residential development called The Beeches.
The corn mill burned down in 1961, and then in 1964 Dr Beeching swung his axe and the pretty railway line from Buntingford to Ware was closed.
In this north-western sector of a remarkable parish it is possible to go back two thousand years at a glance, from the ancient trackway to an abandoned railway line, courtesy of Dr Beeching.
side by side, but the Bute Street link to Dunstable was closed during the short-sighted Marples era at the Transport Ministry in the 1960s - Ernest Marples employed his scientist friend Dr Beeching
On each hill grow beeches, junipers, wild clematis and box, which delight the eye.
Steep cliffs and sandy beaches characterise this beach as they do so many others in the county.
Popular beaches for family picnics were the beaches at Rhoose and Fontygary.
Compared with the view of Porthminster Beach taken in 1890, this view indicates how much the holiday industry had taken over the St Ives beaches.
Known as Shell Beach because of the number of sea shells to be found here, this beach's real name is Barricane Beach.
This fine beach of golden sand is seen in its early days as a bathing resort.
Porthminster Beach, almost in the town and just below the railway station, was extremely popular even a century ago.
This beach in tidal Poole Harbour was handy for campers here in the northern part of Poole, who were some distance from the extensive beaches at Sandbanks and Canford Cliffs.
This is the view south along the beach from Rockley Point.
Being one of the few beaches south of Bude that can be accessed by car ensured that Crackington Haven had its compliment of holiday facilities, such as the hotel we see here with players just visible on
The north coast resorts have beaches of pebbles, unlike the sandy beaches of the east coast.
Wildersmouth Beach - named after Wilder Brook - was the main beach before the cutting of the tunnels.
This view looks north along the beach.
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