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Summer Of 1990
I was lucky enough to go abroad for our family holiday every year. Towards the end of the 1980s my second holiday around August time would be to go to Treyarnon Bay with my best friend Becci and her parents, and I fell in love with ...Read more
A memory of St Merryn in 1990 by
Robert Elwell
I am looking for information on Robert Elwell or family in Stoke Abbott around 1610. Robert Elwell sailed on the ship Recovery in March 1633 to the Massachusetts Bay in America.
A memory of Stoke Abbott by
Down Memory Lane
I was born in Nottingham and came to live in Gateshead when I was 4 years old. My mother was in the W.R.A.C and met my father when she was stationed down there. He was a Waiter in the Crown Hotel in Bawtry and was originally from ...Read more
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Brambles Holiday Camp
When I was about ten (1967), we went on holiday from London to the Isle of Wight with my mum and dad and brother. We stayed at Brambles Holiday Camp, which I think was in Freshwater Bay? It was one of those old fashioned ...Read more
A memory of Freshwater Bay by
Wide Sea Hotel, Downderry
I last stayed at the Wide Sea Hotel in 1966. Margaret Eliott the owner was to marry my father, Hilton Devitte in 1967. I wondered if the hotel still existed today, and what had happened to Margaret Devitte nee Eliott. We ...Read more
A memory of Downderry in 1966 by
Godmersham Post Office
We visited and stayed at the Post Office, village shop and off licence in 1973. My mother Mrs Oliver had just taken over as Post Mistress. My mother had given up a teaching post in Liverpool to be nearer her own mother who ...Read more
A memory of Godmersham in 1973 by
Dancing On The Downs In Front Of Babbacombe Theatre
I spent a lovely sunny July evening with my morris dancing friends at Babbacombe providing a musical and dancing entertainment for the holidaymakers on the Downs. The entertainers were the ...Read more
A memory of Babbacombe in 2009 by
Holidays
I remember camping for 2/6d a night. Mrs Dane (I think) ran the site. Having too much cider, trying to surf. Walking to Trevone Bay, eating in beach cafe run by Ron, and his son Chris looked after the car park. Went back last year, 2013 ...Read more
A memory of Trevose Head in 1970 by
German Aircraft
In the early 1940s my father was a coastguard stationed at Barry Island. I was about 5 years old and I vividly remember that one day I was sat on my 3-wheeled bike at the top of the hill and a German aircraft flew over at a very ...Read more
A memory of Barry Island in 1940 by
Blyth Boyhood
I went to St Wilfrid's Junior in Blyth. Great times, great memories. Rafts on the river at Cowpen, summer days up Humford and the hapenny woods. Days out at the Spanish City. Pit galas, the waltzer on the market place, ...Read more
A memory of Blyth in 1955 by
Captions
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This small landing bay off the Thames estuary near the Isle of Grain is popular with fishermen and amateur sailors.
The four-storey Sundial Cottage (left), and Library Cottage next door are shown before the building of the Bay Private Hotel.
The photographer is looking east towards Poole Head, at the end of the long high cliff of Poole Bay which includes Bournemouth.
This row of diminutive, white cottages provided accommodation for the Coastguards maintaining a watch along this busy stretch of the Kent coastline with its treacherous offshore sandbanks.
The church has been much re-built and re-designed over the years.
Reighton is a small resort on Filey Bay, and Reighton Sands are justly famous for their bathing.
On this sunny early afternoon Di Palma Cream Ices and Johnny's Creamy Ices compete for trade (centre), and people sit in the rose garden formed next to Trinity Church after the iron railings
It was the early use of bathing machines that made Weymouth such a popular resort for sea bathing.The larger machines ran down into the water on rails and consisted of a number of cubicles.
Pegwell Bay houses the replica Viking dragon-headed longship which was rowed and sailed from Denmark to Broadstairs to celebrate the 1500th anniversary of the landing of Hengist and Horsa; it arrived
Between Whitstable and Herne Bay, this modern residential suburb and resort, with its grassy cliff-top promenade and shingle beach, was developed mainly in the years following the Second World War.
We now embark on a tour of the Moors or Levels, the vast flat lands of central Somerset, where great drains and canalised rivers keep the marshes at bay. We
The area at the top of Staithes is known as Bank Top and here, in 1929, we see two recently- completed bay-fronted detached bungalows (right of view) which have been carefully positioned to take full
In the last years of the 19th century Marconi set up an early wireless transmitting station near to Totland Bay, exchanging radio signals with a steamer out at sea.
This shows the first of the plague of holiday chalets which swept along the cliffside before planning regulations prevented their building.
The Old House (left) dates from 1678, and it is a prominently sited example of English domestic architecture at its very best.
The coloured cliffs of Alum Bay are one of the most enduring sights on the Isle of Wight as far as visitors are concerned.
Part of the 'Cliftonville' area, these smart terraces housed the wealthy colonels, surgeons and Indian Army officers who retired to the seaside here.
To the right of christ church is the Catholic Church of Our Lady of Light.
They were built for the traffic across the bay from Morecambe and Arnside; the last steamer called in 1910.
The single-storey white building was the Coastguard Station, built between 1884 and 1904.
Originally named after its fine view overlooking the jetty, this street retained its name when the pier was built.
Looking out into Christchurch Bay, Mudeford remains the centre of Dorset's small-scale fishing industry, though leisure yachting has dominated from the middle of the 20th century.
To the east of Margate, and south of Foreness Point, Kingsgate Bay is marked by this gap in the cliffs.
This view shows Cei Bach (Little Quay), where a number of boats were built, with the typical Ceredigion coast beyond.
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