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Memories
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An Exotic World For Young Canadians
We arrived in Knutsford in September 1955: two bewildered parents and four children, the youngest only 10 months old. My father, a major, had been sent by the Canadian Army to take a year-long course in ...Read more
A memory of Knutsford in 1955 by
An Idyllic Childhood
We moved to Pevensey Bay when I was 4. In the Summer, the three of us would go down to the beach, early in the morning, while our parents were still asleep, and dig in the sand, and play. This was our childhood. We didn't ...Read more
A memory of Pevensey Bay by
An Old Flame
My first love was Susan Sainty who, at this time, lived in London Road, Kings Lynn with sister Alison, and mum and dad. Her gran lived in Cley and the family probably had the chalet bungalow in West Runton at the time. We met at ...Read more
A memory of West Runton in 1964 by
An Unchanged Caravan Site
Wow, this brings back memories of pics my parents had - my folks had a caravan (static) in 1952 and my mum's parents did before that. My sister and my brother (born 1952-1955) spent childhoods there and so did I (born ...Read more
A memory of Mundesley in 1970 by
Angmering On Sea Beach Huts
I first went to Angmering after the war. My grandparents lived there and we used to spend time there in the summer. In those days there were no such things as beach furniture or pic-nic equipment. We had an ex army ...Read more
A memory of Angmering in 1950
Ann Levers Recollections
I remember Ann Varley as she was then called. I was a mate of Peter Simpson who lived on Queens Terrace & I lived in Custom House Lane. Peter's grandfather was called Potts & was the landlord of the Steamer Hotel. ...Read more
A memory of Fleetwood in 1947 by
Ann Levers Recollections For D C Dyson
My recollection is that Beech Cottage was up Beech Road off Pilling Lane near the school and Dyson's fruit and veg was a tiny shop on Pilling Lane and was run by an old gentleman called Dicky Dyson. We could buy 1/2d Spanish sweets if we had the money, and other junk, as we would call it now.
A memory of Fleetwood by
Another Memory Of Weymouth
In the 50's Bertram Mills Circus used to come to town and I remember there was a great procession through the streets near the harbour, this included the elephants and the prancing horses! On Saturday mornings there ...Read more
A memory of Weymouth
Anti Invasion Devices
I spent many happy hours on Porthpean beach, both with my family and my friends during the summer holidays. I remember the anti invasion devices well as we used them as monkey bars. After the war they became very rusty with ...Read more
A memory of Porthpean in 1943 by
Anti Invasion Defences Porthpean Beach
During the invasion scare of WW2, Porthpean beach was protected from seaborne landings by the Germans by having anti-landing craft defences built along the length of the beach at I believe, the low tide ...Read more
A memory of Porthpean in 1943 by
Captions
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The large extension at the back of the inn (right) contained seven bedrooms with doors onto the beach.
The beach is seen at low tide, with striking clouds and the sun glinting on the surf.
This was originally built as stabling for the gentry who would trot up the mile of embankment in their carriages to visit Wells beach.
The old boathouse is selling beach balls, lilos, straw hats and so on, but most important from the parents' point of view is that the shop is offering teas and beach trays.
The beach is lined with numerous beach yawls; these did all the fetching and carrying for the cargo-carrying ships which plied the North Sea, as well as competing for lucrative salvage prizes when they
Duporth Beach is just around the corner from Charlestown, and is separated from it by the headland and Polmear Island offshore.
Here we have a wonderfully evocative sign of the times: a beach scene in high summer and not a glimpse of bare ?
It also had nearby coal-pits, which transported some of their coal from the beach here.
Until the 1840s Paignton was a farming village half a mile inland, producing cider and the then famous Paignton cabbage, but it became popular with convalescents and its beach - longer and better than
This view shows Front Beach and Railway Street, now the Strand.
Lying north from Liverpool were continuous golden sandy beaches.
The Beach House Temperance Hotel (to the right in photograph No 44204) is apparent on the left in this view of the broad Esplanade, looking towards the centre of the town.
Note the beach café and swings on the beach and, on the bottom right of the picture the glazed fronted café, designed to take full advantage of the sea views but to protect from the unpredictable
This was a typical holiday scene on the beach in the 1940s: none of the visitors are sunbathing, and the children are not wearing swimming costumes, and yet in the background there are dozens of beach
At this time there was not a lot for the children to do, other than paddle, dig trenches and make castles on the sandy beach.
The beach was where the unlicensed traders set up, and where the cheaper end of the entertainments went on, including the boxing booths and the travellers' fairground.
Chalets, a villa and the Bay View Hotel overlook the Hive and Burton Beach from the end of Beach Road.
A similar gap to the one at West Runton provides reasonable access to the beach.
Shoeburyness East Beach Tent Site
Middle Beach (foreground) at Studland, is overlooked by the 1943-built Fort Henry on Redend Point (right-hand clifftop), which Canadian Engineers named for their home base in Ontario.
A fun fair can be seen in the foreground, and the beach entertains many visitors in this view of old Saltburn, with the Ship Inn just visible over the shoulder of Cat Nab (right).
This seaside resort on the Cardigan Bay coast shelters behind its sand dunes and wide sandy beach.
The huts are arranged just above the high tide mark along the length of Par Beach.
This is still a sandy beach on the Solent shore; many beaches in Hampshire are now pebble, possibly due to erosion.
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