Places
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Photos
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Maps
115 maps found.
Books
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Memories
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Wonderful Memories
I have wonderful memories of Fowey, as a teenager I used to go and stay with a lovely lady in a cottage leading down to the centre. She had a son and daughter but I think they had left home, one to go nursing and the other in the ...Read more
A memory of Fowey in 1955 by
Overstrand, The Beach From The Clifffs C1955
The image shown in this picture is so familiar to me. I lived for 13 years of my early days (3-16 years of age), about 150 yards from where this picture was taken. During very high tides we would, as ...Read more
A memory of Overstrand by
My Dear Home Town Of Bournemouth
I was born there in 1928, in Boscombe Hospital, Bournemouth, and lived in Bournemouth till 1962. There is no where like Bournemouth, lovely beaches, stores, theatres, the Chines, and Shell Bay. An excursion to ...Read more
A memory of Bournemouth in 1940 by
A Year To Remember
How well I remember arriving at Wells-next-the-Sea from Leicester as a new bride. My husband was a former high school pen-friend who was now in England serving in the U.S Air Force, having been in the country from his ...Read more
A memory of Wells-Next-The-Sea in 1951 by
The Shelter
What a wonderful picture this is, a lovely summer's day at the height of the summer season (by the look of the beach). The small shelter featuring in the picture disappeared overnight during a cliff-fall around the mid 1960s (a ...Read more
A memory of Overstrand by
Portwrinkle Beach
My parents used to take me there after school sometimes on their half day off from Menheniot C0-Op in the 1950s and early 1960s when I was a child. It was a steep climb down to the beach from the road but worth the effort. ...Read more
A memory of Portwrinkle by
Happy Days 1950s And 60s
I was born and brought up in Weaverham until I left to move to Altrincham with my new wife (and job). Over that 20 year period I have so many happy memories; too many to record in 1000 words. Lived in Lime Avenue all ...Read more
A memory of Weaverham by
The War Years
I was born in Ryde in 1938 and when war broke out, my mother and myself moved in with my grandparents, Laurence and Lucy Stroud (nee Meecham) into what is now Wellwood Grange but in those days was just Wellwood. It was the home of ...Read more
A memory of Binstead by
To School Along The Prom
I lived in Mochdre, and went to the grammar school, 1955-1962. Getting off the bus at the station we would walk along the prom, skipping stones in the sea, or dodging the waves during stormy high tides. Then we would ...Read more
A memory of Colwyn Bay in 1955 by
Bicycles And A Happy Hunting Ground.
Being the offspring of parents otherwise engaged, and only partially supervised by a succession of Nannies, whose only concern was that we should be clean and respectably dressed when we got up to mischief, ...Read more
A memory of New Milton in 1950 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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