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Maps
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Memories
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Alexandrina Ogilvie
I left Scotland heading to Australia on the SS Ormonde. My dad Frank, worked in the railways in Thornton. I can remember the smell of the steam engines which I still love. I did go back a few years ago to try and ...Read more
A memory of Thornton in 1949 by
All The Fun Of The Fair
Who remembers the travelling fun fair that came to Blackfield in the 1960s? Did you go to Blackfield Junior school? What about skating on the frozen Gravel pits at Holbury in the winter 1962/3/4 or the Esso Cinema? or the ...Read more
A memory of Holbury in 1960 by
All My Childhood Holidays
As a 6 year old in 1954 we began holidaying in Par, staying with Mr and Mrs Batt at Par Green, next door to Brewers. For the next 10 years, often twice a year, we came back to stay with the Batts - a wonderful couple, so kind and ...Read more
A memory of Par by
All Uphill
Our Dad used to take us for a walk up to Mow Cop Castle on a sunny Sunday. We would set off from Talke with our bottle of pop and a jam butty and walk along the canal for a while then through the lanes in Scholar Green past the Three ...Read more
A memory of Kidsgrove in 1973 by
Allonby Reading Room
My Auntie and Uncle lived in a wing of Allonby Reading Room; it was called Melville House. Their surname was Hill and their Christian names were May and Joseph. I spent many summer holidays in the 50s and early 60s with them and ...Read more
A memory of Allonby by
Amble Where I Was Born
May Lundgren was my grandmother, married to Alfred Edward (old Ed), who was in the Air Force during the war. My father is also Alfred Edward (young Eddie), born 1931 who now lives in Alnwick with my mother Irene, formerly ...Read more
A memory of Amble by
American Gi Wwii
I have never been to Moreton Paddox but I just found some pictures of the gardens and house in my father's scrapbook from the war. He lived in the barracks near the gardens from June 13 to August 10, 1944. On the back of one ...Read more
A memory of Moreton Paddox
American Soldiers Bivouacked At Grittleton
From April, 1944 until June 1944, my US Army unit, the 821st Tank Destroyer Battalion, was encamped in pyramidal tents in several fields in Grittleton. I was a member of Company A of the battalion. My ...Read more
A memory of Grittleton in 1940 by
Amser Gorau Yn Ei Bywyd
1950s and 1960s in Malltraeth... The summers were always long and hot, we went swimming on the beach when we were younger, and as we got older in the 'corbwll'. We went out collecting birds eggs, the odd apple or pear would ...Read more
A memory of Malltraeth
An American In Barassie
I lived at 51 Becah Road, Barassie, Troon. My step-father was in the U.S. Air Force and stationed at Prestwiick. I remember the gentleman who lived on the ground floor of our house. His name I think was George ...Read more
A memory of Troon in 1956 by
Captions
1,131 captions found. Showing results 193 to 216.
At low tide Porth Beach becomes a sandy inlet on the east side of Newquay, but here the tide is in, with Porth Island and Trevelgue Head seen across the water.
Few people can now remember how crowded the beach became on a warm summer day - the scenes here were comparable with Blackpool Beach.
The people flocked back to the beach after wartime defences had been cleared.
Bathing tents dot the beach at Viking Bay, while two bathing machines stand at the water's edge.
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.
Southsea's long shingle beach crowded with trippers.
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).
By this date, Perranporth was becoming popular for bathing on account of its sandy beach.
Most of the coastal trading vessels working out of Padstow were schooners or ketches, and many earned their keep beach trading.
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.
This is the longest beach in Pembrokeshire (two miles end to end), lying below a shingle storm ridge.
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.
Almost at the end of the Lleyn Peninsula, this small village opens out onto the beach and Cardigan Bay.
At the turn of the century, Felixstowe was at the height of its popularity as a seaside resort, with its south-facing beach.
It also had nearby coal-pits, which sent out some of their produce from the beach here.
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.
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.
Lines of wind shelters adorn the beach at the popular Yorkshire coast resort of Filey.
The beach huts show that this was and still is a popular beach.
This view looks south from one of the two lookout towers on the beach.
The most popular and fashionable part of the promenade is that known as the Green Beach.
For many years hoards of revellers would descend on the beach from Cardiff via cheap ferry trips.
Rhyl is famous for its great windy expanse of beach facing Liverpool Bay.
The pebbly storm beach gives way to a vast fine sandy beach, covered in this photograph by a high tide.
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