Cayton Bay, The Beach c.1960
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Even the dog looks as though it is enjoying itself, and the donkeys are certainly keeping busy on this beautiful beach. The village is small; it has a 12th-century church dedicated to John the Baptist.
An extract from Yorkshire Coastal Memories.
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A Selection of Memories from Cayton Bay
For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Cayton Bay
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I visited wallisis several times in the seventeees when i was a young boy staying in a caravan with my mam dad two sisters and my nana. I remember the old gas lights and the bucket under the caravan to drain the washing up water into , the shower and toilet blocks we had to share with the rest of the camp.it was at walisis i first discovered what i call the double bikes you could rent for an hour hour . the stage 3 ...see more
We stayed in a caravan at the camp in the 1950s
Had to scramble down a very steep dirt track to the beach
My name is now Marie Moore but my maiden name was Jeeves. Memories of Cayton Bay 1960s to 70s will stay with me forever, my nannan, mam and her 2 sisters all had their own caravans on Wallis's Holiday Camp, our caravan number was 224, it was on the top field across from the big house on the corner of Cayton Lane then but later got moved further down the field for some reason, mam and her sisters were all next to ...see more
I have lots of fond memories of Cayton Bay as a child in the late 1960s/70s, the only place we knew and loved. Mam had a caravan there, following in her mam's footsteps. We loved to get there in the school holidays, even the 3 hour journey there with all us kids taking turns to share the sick bucket didn't put us off going. We all crammed in my Uncle Bill's car, God knows how we all fitted in but ...see more
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