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Summer Of 67
I won the Cornish longboard championships at Constantine Bay in 1967. I was the profesional lifeguard at Treyarnon Bay in 1967 and 1968. Friendships established then and still true include Anhtony Richards, Robert Ede, David ...Read more
A memory of Constantine Bay in 1967 by
Holidays In The 1950s
My parents and I used to stay in a bungalow owed by a Mr & Mrs Tidy and I was made to keep it tidy! I loved the sandy beach and remember playing deck tennis on the sand. Next door was a family with three girls, their ...Read more
A memory of St Mary's Bay by
Childhood Holidays
We spent three years in perfect holidaying mood in Mrs Greig's caravan, the first time ever having a jelly mould, 1955!!!. Caravan site run by the Philps, had Yates round salted butter every day on our rolls, had fruit in our ...Read more
A memory of Lower Largo in 1955 by
Childhood In Bryn Y Maen
As far as I was concerned there was nowhere else, only what I read or what my parents told me, my life centred around the post office, church, vicarage and Bryn Eglwys, and the neighbouring farms, the lovely views to the ...Read more
A memory of Bryn-y-maen in 1930 by
Family Holidays
My dad always ensured that we had a "fortnight's" family holiday each year. A fortnight was 2 weeks - ie fourteen nights. These holidays started in 1949, when I was seven and continued to up to 1958 when I was 16. In 1949 and ...Read more
A memory of Bournemouth in 1949 by
Power Boats
The wooden clinker built boat, painted white in the lower right of the picture, was one of a pair of fast boats that the late Arthur Shippey and Tom Louis ran from coffee house end steps. They would call loudly ""half hour trips round the ...Read more
A memory of Whitby in 1953 by
Wooden Bridge
My uncle Bill Wright lived & worked in Chester from the war period to 1963. He was a widower and had a damp old ground floor of a rather grand house beside the wooden bridge across the Dee. My Aunts , his sisters would go up from ...Read more
A memory of Chester in 1958 by
Lydia And Wendy
I worked in the big hotel in Sandown, and a couple of hotels on the very seafront with two girls from Binstead, what fun we had, laughter and tears went together. I've lost touch with them but would love to hear what they are up to ...Read more
A memory of Binstead in 1973 by
The Llandudno & Colwyn Bay Tramway In Old Colwyn
What an interesting photograph of a grey painted tram heading for the 'Queens Hotel' terminus which was just over half of a mile away. It would take just over five minutes and three tramstops to reach ...Read more
A memory of Old Colwyn in 1920 by
Personal Reflections
I was born in Sandleaze, Worton in 1957. I was brought up at 1 Mill Road near the Marston boundary. I remember many things about the village especially the Rose and Crown Pub and the Mill. I remember with pride the war ...Read more
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Instead of horses and carts, cars now clog the pavement outside the Black Bull.
By the turn of the century the village was growing very quickly, although it was still far from urban sprawl.
The High Street continues north, downhill towards the parish church, while the through road was widened and improved in 1950s.
Punch and Judy hold the attention of the formally-dressed crowd of holidaymakers in the South Bay.
A view looking eastwards along the rocky Barnaderg Bay towards Letterfrack and Diamond Hill.
Looking through the gate the Crown Hotel, now no longer in existence, can be seen on the left of the High Street.
This general view shows typical houses of the time; the terrace in the foreground is followed by 1950s semis leading down to the waters of the inlet of Carmarthen Bay, with the Gower peninsular just visible
Small, well-mannered cottages set a later 19th-century scene in the days before parked cars lined the roads.
Beyond Torquay harbour is the fine sweep of Torbay.
A pleasing picture of the little pier at Schull.
South of the market-place, the old grammar school is centred around a wide, seven-bay red-brick building of 1765.
As is customary in medieval great churches, the choir stalls occupy the first bays of the nave.
South of the market-place, the old grammar school is centred around a wide, seven-bay red-brick building of 1765.
Partially hidden behind C&A is the Georgian edifice of Holy Trinity church, completed in 1727.
The village still sees some crab and lobster fishing, and Beadnell Bay is excellent for sailing.
There is a chapel dedicated to St Patrick in the Bay marked by a plaque; he is said to have set out for Ireland from here.
Its clifftops offer extensive views across the shining waters of Poole Bay.
This view shows the end of Boutport Street, where it enters The Square.
A horse-tram from Port Bannatyne makes its way along Rothesay Esplanade.
Delightful dark brown granite cottages hug the narrow choked streets of Mousehole (pronounced Mouzel).
By the time this photograph was taken building to the left of the picture had been painted and deprived of its bay window.
The twin villages of Cawsand and Kingsand nestle into the hills on the west of Cawsand Bay; they were once, like so many Cornish villages, a centre for smugglers.
There is a spring in the step of the young soldiers who have just been dropped off at the bus station.
There is a spring in the step of the young soldiers who have just been dropped off at the bus station.
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