Hornsea, The Beach c.1930
Photo ref:
H272072
Photo ref:
H272072
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Hornsea Pottery is famous worldwide, and collectors pay a considerable amount for some of the older pieces. In this view, holidaymakers are enjoying cheaper pleasures. The dressing tents are set up, the deckchairs are hired and the picnic baskets are opened for an enjoyable day on the beach.
An extract from Yorkshire Coastal Memories.
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A Selection of Memories from Hornsea
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 Hornsea
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Ok people who survived. Im trying to find out who is Bringing a Civil case against the NHS for the abuse we suffered.
The police did open and investigation but all the people they needed to question were dead.
I am trying to get my medical files from the Council records which there are some i believe but i wanted to help if i can with the civil case .
we all need the truth.
Kim x
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this place held a lot of bad memories for me, I was sent 3 times in the 60s a lot of cruelty , especially once you left the nursery and was old enough to be on the dormitory up the flight of stairs.
the nurse would come and shine a torch in your face, if you moved and were awake she would drag you off the bed and had to stand on the landing in the cold. the childrens crying was horrendous, I ...see more
I was sent to this place in the late 1950’s. I don’t know why I was sent but I remember having two separate visits of one month. I was only 4 or 5 when I went, but I don’t have many good memories of my time there. I can remember going round the back of the bus depot picking raspberries and going to the beach but that was about all for the good times.
I can remember my dad and grandmother ...see more
I have just been reading other people's memories of being incarcerated in Hornsea convalescent home, which as the name suggests is a place for a child who has been ill for some reason to be happy and relaxed away from pressures from parents or school. I was 9 years old, I had my appendix out a few weeks ago and was feeling very tired and I wouldn't eat anything. I kept falling over. My mother took me to the ...see more
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