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Living In Llanddona

My childhood years were fantastic. I loved the hot summer months, especially the walks to the beach, just being free.  The smell of the sea air, and the fresh air.  I spent most of my time outside playing. I loved going to school ...Read more

A memory of Llanddona by Donna Rowlands

Raf Tern Hill And St Josephs College

From 1946 till 1951 we lived at RAF Tern Hill and every day my brother and I travelled by bus (Butters Bus Company as I remember!). We were dropped off near the lovely ivy-covered hotel in the square, and ...Read more

A memory of Market Drayton by Kevin Kelly

Childhood Memories In The Mumbles

I was born in London, but my Mother came from the Mumbles, so several times a year we took the train from Paddington on our journey to Swansea. With a large family of grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins, the ...Read more

A memory of Mumbles, The by Gaynor Wingham

Seafront Bungalow

I remember staying here with my parents sister and cousin must have been about 1950. I would have been about 6 or 7. Seem to remember a sort of sunroom located at the front where us kids slept in makeshift beds made up from loungers ...Read more

A memory of Southwold

Fairfield House Boarding School

I was at Fairfield House Broadstairs boarding school early 60’s. I remember Mrs Ansell. Lovely lady. Mary Kennedy, Wendy Giles, Diane, Jasmine Raybold. We had a visit from Lady Mountbatten. I stayed up late in the ...Read more

A memory of Broadstairs by pah91

Cowes From 1937 To 1955

I was born in Cowes, so many lovely photos! I left for Canada in 1957, Vancouver Island. Sidney, BC, reminds me of a Canadian Cowes. I know all the locations that you display. Things changed a bit over the years, but on a visit ...Read more

A memory of Cowes by Caroline Houston

Ww11 Factory, Llanfaes.

If you walk North along the beach from Beaumaris to Llangoed you pass both the old lifeboat station & you will see some large buildings to the left, (on the right in this photo, just after the road junction) on the other side ...Read more

A memory of Llangoed by bru.enzer

Kings Holiday Camp

It would have been mid August 1970 when I had my first holiday here, together with my parents, aunt, and our two dogs. I was 8 years old. It was 50 years ago this month. We rented a chalet for two weeks. There was a duck pond in ...Read more

A memory of Canvey Island by f.a.t.strahan

Middleton And Elmer In The 1950's

I recall walking from Elmer Sands to Middleton in the 1950's and 60's. The sun was always shining. My Uncle Frank and Aunt Elsie from Morden in Surrey purchased a small timber chalet at Elmer Close in the ...Read more

A memory of Middleton-on-Sea by Martin Newell

3 Beach House Turnchapel..

My name is Susan my family were the Dungey’s living in Turnchapel.My grandmother (Maud) lived at house 3 Beach view until she died in the late fifties. Bringing up a large family including my Mother who was the youngest ...Read more

A memory of Turnchapel by Susan Hartley

Captions

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Caption For Broadstairs, The Beach From The Cliffs 1897

Bathing tents dot the beach at Viking Bay, while two bathing machines stand at the water's edge.

Caption For Totland Bay, The Broadway 1960

The Beach c1955 Totland Bay is a good starting point for a long coastal ramble past The Needles to Alum Bay - some of the most dramatic coastal scenery in England.

Caption For Southsea, The Beach And Pier 1898

Southsea's long shingle beach crowded with trippers.

Caption For Kessingland, The Beach C1960

While a group of children on the beach greet the photographer, others visit the sweet shop (left), whilst a group wait with suitcases to be collected at the end of their holiday (centre).

Caption For Perranporth, 1890

By this date, Perranporth was becoming popular for bathing on account of its sandy beach.

Caption For Padstow, Harbour 1901

Most of the coastal trading vessels working out of Padstow were schooners or ketches, and many earned their keep beach trading.

Caption For Pwllheli, The Promenade 1898

Pwllheli possesses perhaps the finest sandy beach in Wales; and there can be no doubt it will become one of the most attractive seaside places in the kingdom.

Caption For Newgale, C1960

This is the longest beach in Pembrokeshire (two miles end to end), lying below a shingle storm ridge.

Caption For Gorleston, The Beach 1922

Unlike many Norfolk beaches, which allowed the erection of permanent wooden beach huts, Gorleston offered a few temporary huts for weekly hire and a 'village' of square tents.

Caption For Aberdaron, The Beach C1960

Almost at the end of the Lleyn Peninsula, this small village opens out onto the beach and Cardigan Bay.

Caption For Felixstowe, Beach 1904

At the turn of the century, Felixstowe was at the height of its popularity as a seaside resort, with its south-facing beach.

Caption For Little Haven, Black Rocks 1898

It also had nearby coal-pits, which sent out some of their produce from the beach here.

Caption For East Quantoxhead, Townsend 1929

Only a mile from a pleasant and unspoilt beach, the area attracted holiday- makers, and the occupiers of Townsend House helped satisfy their needs by offering meals and accommodation.

Caption For Mundesley, The Beach C1955

Recovering nicely after the 1953 floods, new huts on the promenade replace the old ones which stood on the beach and were smashed up in the storm along with the original Beach Cafe.

Caption For Filey, On The Beach C1950

Lines of wind shelters adorn the beach at the popular Yorkshire coast resort of Filey.

Caption For Sandsend, 1925

The beach huts show that this was and still is a popular beach.

Caption For Aldeburgh, Esplanade 1894

This view looks south from one of the two lookout towers on the beach.

Caption For Clevedon, Green Beach 1892

The most popular and fashionable part of the promenade is that known as the Green Beach.

Caption For Penarth, The Pier 1896

For many years hoards of revellers would descend on the beach from Cardiff via cheap ferry trips.

Caption For Rhyl, Donkeys On The Sands 1891

Rhyl is famous for its great windy expanse of beach facing Liverpool Bay.

Caption For Borth, Parade And Beach 1899

The pebbly storm beach gives way to a vast fine sandy beach, covered in this photograph by a high tide.

Caption For Saundersfoot, Wisemans Bridge Inn C1965

The large extension at the back of the inn (right) contained seven bedrooms with doors onto the beach.

Caption For Polzeath, The Beach And Pentire Head 1903

The beach is seen at low tide, with striking clouds and the sun glinting on the surf.

Caption For Wells Next The Sea, The Beach House 1929

This was originally built as stabling for the gentry who would trot up the mile of embankment in their carriages to visit Wells beach.