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Southend Beach
My Great Uncle and Great Aunt (Joe and Rose) both passed away recently, so I decided to share their memory here. I am their Great Niece's daughter. As far as I am aware, they met about aged 17 or 18 on a "Beano" on Southend ...Read more
A memory of Southend-on-Sea by
Pencarwick Nursing Home
I was born in Pencarwick Nursing Home Exmouth on 7 December 1940. The Principal was Mrs M.E.Hodges My mother left London sometime beforehand with my two elder brothers aged 2 and 6. She left London to avoid the bombing. I ...Read more
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Dunoon Best Holidays Ever
Each year, the excitement mounted as summer drew near. Dad would drag out the large wicker hamper and Mum would start to fill it with clothes, wellies and tins of food from Galbraiths or the Co-op. By school's end, the ...Read more
A memory of Dunoon
Swimming In The Thames At Sunbury
We often went to the 'Beach' on the banks of the Thames, near to the swimming pool in the 1950's. My Aunt DeDe , My Mam and Cousins, Billy & Keith Taylor' ,they lived in The Avenue' and my siblings would spend ...Read more
A memory of Sunbury
Peniel Green
My in-laws and their relatives lived on Peniel Green Road, not Heol Las as Dr Suschnigg suggests. I married my husband in 1949 and moved to Manchester. Many times we travelled on a motor bike from Manchester to Llansamlet, over the ...Read more
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In Bonnie Scotland
In Bonnie Scotland The road back to Campsie Glen Is a forty-year long tunnel of mist! Dug deep into the cut bedrock of memory, And neatly knitted in the multi-storey labyrinth Of pouring passions, in pounding poems!! ...Read more
A memory of Campsie Glen in 1965 by
Sheriff Hill
I lived in Southend Road from 1940 till 1947 then moved to Kent. My grandparents lived at 16 Charnwood Gardens. I lived with my mother and older brother Byron, my father was away at war and I never saw him until 1945. I went to ...Read more
A memory of Sheriff Hill in 1940 by
My Paradise
Way back in my childhood, brothers two and then plus me, Mom and Dad said let us pack our bags, and go down to the sea, Down to the railway station, our entourage did go, Comic books within our hands, cause, four hours, they went so ...Read more
A memory of Barmouth in 1940 by
Fond Memories
I grew up in Woodhouse Eaves from 1943-53, living in Beacon Road, number 65. My grandfather Handley lived in the last house in that row of white cement-rendered houses, it had the only garage in the row in which he kept his ...Read more
A memory of Woodhouse Eaves by
We Were First!!
I can't see what all the fuss is about, about having an 'inland seaside', its a bit 'old hat'! US LOCALS had a real one, well over 50 years ago, it was great, wherever you dug there was almost pure white sand, where was it? BEACON ...Read more
A memory of Bletchley in 1957 by
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Rowing boats are drawn up on the small shingle beach on the west side of Charlestown harbour, with the Polmear Island rock behind.
Mothers and children paddle in the sandy pools of Towan Beach. On Tolcarne Headland in the background is the Great Western Hotel.
A family of youngsters enjoy a spot of shrimping on the beach. On the skyline in the background is the parish church of the Holy Trinity, consecrated just 40 years earlier in 1853.
During the Second World War villagers were evacuated from many villages around the South Hams so that the district could become a D-Day training ground for American soldiers, who would practise troop
During the Second World War villagers were evacuated from many villages around the South Hams so that the district could become a D-Day training ground for American troops, who would practise landings
During the Second World War villagers were evacuated from many villages around the South Hams so that the district could become a D-Day training ground for American troops, who would practise landings
A steeply shelving beach on the left-hand side contrasts strongly with the gently sloping mud flats on the other side of this river.
Llangranog has a small, sheltered bay with a sandy beach on which about 20 ships were built during the 19th century. Like Tresaith, it became popular with holidaymakers from the 1930s.
Lowestoft's Claremont pier was not built until 1903 - prior to that, the southern breakwater of the harbour built by Samuel Morton Peto was adapted as a pier, giving visitors the contrast of fishing harbour
Opened in June 1900, the immense hotel block dominates Fistral Beach on the edge of Newquay. A horse and open carriage are about to take guests on an excursion.
By this time, the two-mile-long concrete promenade at Felixstowe had been constructed, offering a pleasant walkway between the gardens of the hotels on the left and the shingle beach on the right of this
Here we see a busy day in the summer. Girls watch the boys go by. Fashions have changed: there are no bikinis and no bare chests here.
This is the first view that many visitors would have had of Borth.
Here you can see the wide range of entertainment on offer on the beach. On the left, the tea tent was run by the Castle Coffee House, based in Castle Street.
For years Alnmouth has been noted for its sands; many of these holidaymakers would have taken a constitutional walking along the beach to Warkworth Castle.
'During the present century the town has considerably improved; its salubrious air and extensive beach on which there is a splendid walk of nearly two miles, having induced many families to make
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