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The small sandy beach at Newhaven was known as the horse shoe bite. It was completely covered at high tide, but as the water receded, it exposed fine golden sand, ideal for making castles and getting in your sandwiches. A row of ...Read more

A memory of Newhaven in 1960 by Kathy Farmer C/O Terry Roberts Roberts Flooring Contractors Ltd

I was introduced to Cornwall and Polzeath when as a teenager I went to an Anglican young people's house party at Tristram House. I absolutely fell in love with Cornwall and remember wonderful walks across the cliffs to ...Read more

A memory of Polzeath in 1960 by Margaret Young

Born & bred 'Tarpotion'. The shops? The best I can remember, starting (1) Junc/Rushbottom Lane/London Rd - NAT, parcels & goods service (later Essex Carriers, Atlas Express), now the bank, cycle shop. (2) - Pie shop ...Read more

A memory of Great Tarpots in 1950 by Horace Rogers

I lived in East Runton as a child somewhere around 1960 and I have a couple of memories. More than likely they are for my own purpose but here goes. I used to play in the white pillbox that was up on the cliff edge. When I ...Read more

A memory of East Runton in 1960 by Paul Wilton

Just after the war during our summer holidays I was sent from Rochester (where we lived at that time, Dad having been demobbed and then working at Short Bros on the airport), together with my trusty Hercules cycle to spend the ...Read more

A memory of St Blazey in 1940 by Mike Mumford

All our family holidays when I was a child were taken at Scarborough, where my parents and I stayed with two spinsters who were old family friends, in Whin Bank. I suppose I first went in the early 1960s, and my last visit ...Read more

A memory of Scarborough in 1968 by Jonathan Hutchins

Going to the Eccles market in the morning putting lights up for the stall holders for two bob, that was after doing the shopping for my mum and sister for half a crown.  That was more than enough for the ABC Broadway ticket, ...Read more

A memory of Eccles in 1960 by Tony Jarvis

My family used to rent a bungalow just off Boat Cliffe Road called 'Sunny Dawn'.  It had a big verandah all around it and flies used to stick to the windows after it had rained!  We always went to Reighton for holidays and my ...Read more

A memory of Reighton in 1965 by Wendy Jones

In the centre of the picture, the smaller house I believe is 'Cosy Cot' where my aunt Phyllis and cousin Peter spent WW2 and experienced the death of my Uncle Alf in the RAF in 1940. I remember that fragrant parcels used to ...Read more

A memory of Pentewan in 1940 by Jennifer E Chalmers

For many years in the late 1960s and early 1970s our parents packed up our 2 old cars and brought us 4 children from London and Yorkshire to Scratby. We would rent any number of holiday cottages, one called ...Read more

A memory of Scratby in 1968 by Ruth Brackpool