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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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Kiosks on the beach; donkey rides; parasols; shady hats. All the ingredients for a perfect seaside holiday.
Kiosks on the beach; donkey rides; parasols; shady hats. All the ingredients for a perfect seaside holiday.
The Metropole Hotel was one of the first in Whitby to have electric light; its glowing windows were a landmark for ships.
A large crowd is gathered on the beach in the centre of this photograph, possibly to watch 'Uncle Mac and his Minstrels.'
The Pavilion remains today an important venue for plays and concerts, surrounded by lovely gardens and with the beach and sea just across the road.
On this southern arm of the Haven, Angle Bay boasts fine views right across the Milford Haven. There are several beached boats, the first complete with tender.
Possibly the last knotted hankie to be seen on an English beach.
Rowing boats are drawn up on the small shingle beach on the west side of Charlestown harbour, with the Polmear Island rock behind.
This is the westerly end of Lydstep Cavern Beach; here we see the aptly named Saddle Back and Saddle Point, with the cave and fissures worn into the vertical strata of limestone.
Coney Beach funfair was built in 1920 on an old ballast tip. The first ride was a figure-of-eight ride, housed in two World War I hangers.
Back Beach was the fiefdom of William Curtis & Sons, boatmen and fish merchants from nearby Long Entry on Church Cliffs. The spot was locally known as Curtis Cove.
A view of one of the beaches which look out over Galway Bay to County Clare and the limestone landscape of the Burren.
Children with hoops play on the clifftop promenade, a breezy spot high above the beach. The octagonal building is a newspaper kiosk. Today, the east promenade overlooks the new Ramsgate Port.
Donkey rides, beach chairs, heavy clothes - these are the delights of a British seaside day out!
Overdressed holidaymakers in sun hats enjoy the sands in this view from Great Western Beach towards the Atlantic Hotel on the headland of the Beacon.
This is the first beach around the corner from the main breakwater of Par Harbour. Steps cut into the rock lead down the cliff from Spit Point.
This picture shows the junction of High Street and Crane Street.
The beach below White Cliff has long been one of Seaton's favoured bathing places, recommended in many guidebooks, though a charge of 4d was made during the earlier decades of the last
The stretch of marshland from Winchelsea to Pett is known as Pett Level. This view looks along the shingle beach which fronts the marshland towards Fairlight.
This is a busy scene, with thousands of holidaymakers on the beach. The western shelter has now been completed, and work on the finishing of the promenade and the eastern shelter is under way.
Long shadows indicate the end of a pleasurable day's sailing from this well-known beach.
Aldeburgh lifeboats have always been launched straight from the shingle beach. Four years earlier, an Aldeburgh lifeboat suffered its worst disaster, capsizing with the loss of seven lives.
Two packed motorboats pass the beach chalets north of the Pier. Later, the chalets were to be rebuilt to face inland, as well as towards the sea.
Another view, this time looking south along the beach towards Carrickfergus. Belfast Lough is on the left, and the hotel and refreshment room are on the right.
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