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Memories

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Sunshine And Showers

From Bury to Porthtowan in those days was a long hard drive, especially with three screaming kids in the back. To make it easier we would set off at 2am and drive through the night... in those days less than half the distance ...Read more

A memory of Porthtowan in 1973 by Raymond Hay

Childhood Holidays In Fairy Cross

This photo has brought back so many memories of when I had my summer holidays in the last house before the white houses. There was a gate to the side of the house which lead into a large garden where my grandad ...Read more

A memory of Abbotsham in 1973 by Beverley Cousins

Pagham Fisherman

I was born in 1972 and lived with my Parents and younger Brother on Pagham Beach where my Father Chris Dodd was the local Pagham Fisherman...he is still fishing with his mate Don and my father is now 62 years in 2006. Lots of the train ...Read more

A memory of Pagham in 1972 by Emma Thomas

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 Michele Coombe

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

The Beach Huts

We spent many lovely holidays here and my lasting memory is of our first job was to race down to the beach and see 'Dick' Davies and sort a beach hut for our 2 weeks stay, they were a little piece of calm when the weather was rough, ...Read more

A memory of Overstrand in 1972 by Jane Bridges

The Outdoor Pool

Spending all day at the pool/beach when I was a kid. Would go in the sea, run along to the pool, jump in the shallow end ( cos you were getting a bit cold by this time ) and bliss, it was like being in a sauna. mmmmm Hurrying ...Read more

A memory of Burntisland in 1972 by Liz Mc Auley

Sally Busby(Nee Bench)

I had to leave this school due to my father's death and missed it terribly. ALL my closest friends were now too far away to see. Because it was a boarding school, it was like being taken away from my family. My most enjoyable young years were had here.

A memory of East Grinstead in 1972

Wounderful Memories

Worked at the Bay Hotel as a chambermaid, to start with on weekends and school holidays. Worked with great people, and the guests were wounderful too. Very fond memories, met my husband at the disco there, it's a great shame it was demolished. Wounderful place with the fantastic beach.

A memory of Rhosneigr in 1972

Beautiful Beaches

My parents lived in Ennors Road in Newquay during the early 70s. They were an RAF family. I was newly-married & lived in Kent, but I used to love visiting them & spending holidays in beautiful Newquay. My new husband used ...Read more

A memory of Newquay in 1972 by Margaret Geoge

Captions

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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.

Caption For Dymchurch, Shop On The Sea Wall C1960

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.

Caption For Southwold, The Beach 1896

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

Caption For St Austell, Duporth Beach 1912

Duporth Beach is just around the corner from Charlestown, and is separated from it by the headland and Polmear Island offshore.

Caption For Cleethorpes, The Beach 1906

Here we have a wonderfully evocative sign of the times: a beach scene in high summer and not a glimpse of bare ?

Caption For Little Haven, 1898

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

Caption For Paignton, North Sands From The Pier 1896

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

Caption For Saundersfoot, The Beach 1933

This view shows Front Beach and Railway Street, now the Strand.

Caption For Formby, The Old Lifeboat Cottage C1965

Lying north from Liverpool were continuous golden sandy beaches.

Caption For Deal, Esplanade 1899

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.

Caption For Saltburn By The Sea, The Ship Inn And Cat Nab C1955

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

Caption For Barry Island, Whitmore Bay C1940

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

Caption For Fairhaven, Promenade 1913

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.

Caption For New Brighton, The Beach 1887

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.

Caption For Burton Bradstock, Beach 1930

Chalets, a villa and the Bay View Hotel overlook the Hive and Burton Beach from the end of Beach Road.

Caption For East Runton, The Beach Entrance 1921

A similar gap to the one at West Runton provides reasonable access to the beach.

Caption For Studland, On The Beach C1950

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.

Caption For Saltburn By The Sea, C1960

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).

Caption For Tywyn, View From Marine Parade 1908

This seaside resort on the Cardigan Bay coast shelters behind its sand dunes and wide sandy beach.

Caption For Par, Beach Huts 1938

The huts are arranged just above the high tide mark along the length of Par Beach.

Caption For Lepe, The Beach C1955

This is still a sandy beach on the Solent shore; many beaches in Hampshire are now pebble, possibly due to erosion.