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Copse Lane
An uncle, Arthur Garside owned a chemists in Freshwater following his service in the Royal Artillery during World War Two. He made Turkish Delight and would bring one or two trays of lemon and rose flavor when he visited us in ...Read more
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Grays Thurrock Essex England Uk 1935 1953
My memories of Grays go back to the 1940's and 1950's the war years and before the London over-spill estates Of Belhurst Park and Basildon arrived. I was born and lived at 106 Bridge Road with my parents ...Read more
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Coronation
I started school at Stoneleigh East infants School the year of the Coronation and remember getting my mug full of Smarties and thinking school wasn't so bad. The headmistress was Mrs Bell and my first teacher was Miss Sparrow who ...Read more
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Childhood Memories
I first visited Weymouth as a small child during the second world war to see my rather strict widowed maternal grandmother who lived at 10 Carlton Road South, within walking distance of the beach. I particularly recall the ...Read more
A memory of Weymouth in 1945 by
Broad Oak Street
I was born in 1949 and then spent the next 15 years living there or visiting my grandparents in Broad Oak Street. The house in Broad Oak Street forms a part of my identity. I remember every nook and cranny - the coal cellar ...Read more
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Remember Pevensey Bay
im an ex Pevensey bay man born and bread in the bay in the late forties,my name is john parks iv a twin brother Alan we used to live next to the castle inn till I was about five then moved to the centre of the bay. my ...Read more
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Punch And Judy Man
I was born in Herne Bay in 1941 and the punch and judy man was uncle colin and he lived a few doors down from us in Victoria Park. He made me a Mr Punch puppet.
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The White Cafe, Kinmel Bay.
I remember this place during WW2. It was all closed up but we used to find a way in and were sometimes chased off. We called it the "White Cafe". All that was in the 1940s when I was only a young child. I went back in the ...Read more
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The White Cafe, Kinmel Bay.
I remember this place during WW2. It was all closed up but we used to find a way in and were sometimes chased off. We called it the "White Cafe". All that was in the 1940s when I was only a young child. I went back in the ...Read more
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Charles Of The Ritz ,Burgess Hill
I worked for Charles Of The Ritz in the late 1960's in the warehouse at the London Road end of Victoria Road, preparing and despatching the orders . We also prepared orders for Christian Dior, Yves St Laurent and ...Read more
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Extensive and beautiful sandy beaches brought ever- increasing numbers of visitors to the North Wales coast.
Rhos-on-Sea was the poorer cousin to nearby Colwyn Bay, yet it still manages an identity of its own.
There was nothing at Pevensey Bay when Duke William landed there on 28 September 1066, and it remained empty of habitation for many years .
The journey to Studland Bay has always been a favourite excursion for tourists from the nearby resort of Swanage.
A Great Western steam locomotive hauls the Cornish Riviera Express towards St Austell from Par. The train is seen from the Carlyon Bay golf course near the Crinnis arch.
A 1904 view of the pier esplanade, castle rock and the new castle. There were no trams serving Dunoon, but there were a number of horse-drawn omnibuses working between the West and East Bays.
A moody shot of Charles and William Warren`s boathouse at Eype Mouth, southwards across Lyme Bay. Crab, lobster and crayfish pots are stacked by the door.
Despite modern development, Westbourne, to the west of Bournemouth, retains its village atmosphere. Spacious houses and hotels are situated around a dramatic woodland chine leading down to the sea.
Just south of Carlton is the hamlet of Wigthorpe, no more than a few stone houses and cottages on a tranquil lane now by- passed by the Doncaster Road.
The town may get its name from Swene's Wic, the Bay of Swene, perhaps commemorating the great naval battle fought nearby between the Saxons and Danes in 877.
The north breakwater which enclosed the outer harbour in the 1890s also serves as a promenade for visitors.
With its shallow sandy bays, broad grassy downs, civic gardens, and terraces of unpretentious lodging houses, Bude is almost completely an Edwardian construction.
One man and his dog stand looking out to sea (bottom centre) on the sandy beach at Cayton Bay, south of Scarborough.
A holidaying family does a bit of window shopping at the Sea View Stores on the front at Reighton, while a dog watches curiously on to the left.
A moody shot of Charles and William Warren`s boathouse at Eype Mouth, southwards across Lyme Bay. Crab, lobster and crayfish pots are stacked by the door.
The display board to the right of the main shop window shows guide books and postcards of Cartmel Priory - the tree to the right is by the church.
The Hepworths shop in photograph No 25657 was taken over by a local bank and given a splendidly bulbous and fruity Flemish-style ground floor soon after 1890.
The Village 1898.
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.
Hayle Bay, with its lines of evenly-breaking surf and golden sand, is now a mecca for surfers and tourists, and New Polzeath has grown along the low cliffs on the opposite side of the beach.
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.
Lines of wind shelters adorn the beach at the popular Yorkshire coast resort of Filey.
The church has been much re-built and re-designed over the years. It was demolished and rebuilt in the 17th century and effectively rebuilt in 1854-5 and again in 1880-1.
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