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Simply The Best

My parents took us to Kilchattan Bay every year from the mid 1960s. As far as my sister and I were concerned we didn't want to go anywhere else but KB. Used to love climbing the Suidhe which was a ritual for all Glasgow kids. ...Read more

A memory of Kilchattan Bay by David Roach

Wyke Regis

My wife Christina Armstrong's (nee Brown) mum Phylis was born and raised in Wyke Regis, both of Phylis's parents along with many of her relatives are buried at this church. Chris's mum was raised at Park Mead Road, her name was Phylis ...Read more

A memory of Wyke Regis by Robert Armstrong

Childhood Holidays

I will never know why, but we used to take the train to Lundin Links, and then taxi to Lower Largo. I don't know when these holidays started (I was born in 1957 and there are certainly photos of me around 3 years old). ...Read more

A memory of Lower Largo in 1965 by Keith Palmer

Fishing Off The Pier

My memories of the area around the Castle are of fishing both off the pier and from the beach at the other side of the castle from this picture, it would have been around 1978/9 while I was still an apprentice at Timex and before ...Read more

A memory of Dundee by Derek Cole

Help Please

Hello can any one help me please? This is not specifically to Minehead but in April 1960 I stayed at a wooden chaleted holiday camp on the north Somerset coast to the east of Minehead, I think. All I can remember is that I stayed at this ...Read more

A memory of Minehead in 1960 by Pat Horton

Leven In The 1950s

I was five and lived on Links Road where my father had a grocer's shop. I was able to run down the burn path to the beach to swim in the sea or play in paddling pool. We would go to the summer shows in the Beach pavillion or ...Read more

A memory of Leven in 1957 by Dorothy Millar

Warners

As a young child I can remember several holidays taken at the Warners holiday camp at Seaton. The serious business of 'motoring down to Devon' was never taken lightly, lunch was prepared the night before to be eaten at Stonehenge, where one ...Read more

A memory of Seaton in 1965 by Michael Gough

Fair Tides Guest House

My parents owned and ran a guest house... Fair Tides... just up from Mousehole Beach, a stone's throw from the sea. I lived here until 1965.... not long enough as I wanted to stay here until I died I loved it so much. The ...Read more

A memory of Hope Cove in 1955 by Jill Adair

Starting School

This is my first school, Dunston Hill Infant & Junior School, I started school the year the photo was taken, I fell off a small wall first day, I remember it vividly. Favourite teacher in the junior school was a Ms ...Read more

A memory of Dunston in 1955 by Victor Johnson

The Stone Family Of Margate

What wonderful memories I have of my childhood holidays in Margate. Reading others memories bring them all racing back. The children born just after the war were so lucky. Although we really had nothing as regards money or ...Read more

A memory of Margate in 1880 by Pauline Stone

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.