Places
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Maps
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Memories
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Seafront Bungalow
I remember staying here with my parents sister and cousin must have been about 1950. I would have been about 6 or 7. Seem to remember a sort of sunroom located at the front where us kids slept in makeshift beds made up from ...Read more
A memory of Southwold
Fairfield House Boarding School
I was at Fairfield House Broadstairs boarding school early 60’s. I remember Mrs Ansell. Lovely lady. Mary Kennedy, Wendy Giles, Diane, Jasmine Raybold. We had a visit from Lady Mountbatten. I stayed up late in the ...Read more
A memory of Broadstairs by
Cowes From 1937 To 1955
I was born in Cowes, so many lovely photos! I left for Canada in 1957, Vancouver Island. Sidney, BC, reminds me of a Canadian Cowes. I know all the locations that you display. Things changed a bit over the years, but on a ...Read more
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Ww11 Factory, Llanfaes.
If you walk North along the beach from Beaumaris to Llangoed you pass both the old lifeboat station & you will see some large buildings to the left, (on the right in this photo, just after the road junction) on the other ...Read more
A memory of Llangoed by
Kings Holiday Camp
It would have been mid August 1970 when I had my first holiday here, together with my parents, aunt, and our two dogs. I was 8 years old. It was 50 years ago this month. We rented a chalet for two weeks. There was a duck pond ...Read more
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Middleton And Elmer In The 1950's
I recall walking from Elmer Sands to Middleton in the 1950's and 60's. The sun was always shining. My Uncle Frank and Aunt Elsie from Morden in Surrey purchased a small timber chalet at Elmer Close in the ...Read more
A memory of Middleton-on-Sea by
3 Beach House Turnchapel..
My name is Susan my family were the Dungey’s living in Turnchapel.My grandmother (Maud) lived at house 3 Beach view until she died in the late fifties. Bringing up a large family including my Mother who was the youngest ...Read more
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Pavenham 1945 1970
This is the village where I grew up, my parents moving into their very old, somewhat dilapidated cottage at the end of the war. This was 'The Folly' at the eastern end of the village opposite one of Tandy's farms. Why it had that ...Read more
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Canvey Island In Early 60s
We were on holiday. I remember 5 of us in a chalet. I was the eldest child about 9 years old. There was an entertainment area where we attended the Woody Woodpecker Show. Can vaguely remember a small beach. We had to get water once from a standpipe as something went wrong in the chalet?
A memory of Canvey Island by
Childhood In The 1950s
It breaks my heart to see how the years, short-sighted councillors and rapacious businessmen have ruined this once noble and beautiful seaside resort. How could anybody have countenanced destroying this view for the ...Read more
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Captions
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Note the Beach Cafe (left) and the groynes on Charmouth beach; we are looking eastwards to Cain's Folly (centre) and Golden Cap (right). Offshore are the Mouth Rocks.
Cars can still spill onto the beach, and small cafés still provide small-scale refreshments to visitors, although a sea defence has been added since.
The beaches between Marske and Saltburn were considered to be of the highest quality, with racing events and speed records for cars and motor cycles taking place from 1906 until after the Second World
In the foreground is the Beach House Hotel, now Beach Court (left), with the Marine Snack Bar on the opposite side of the road.
This view, with the Grand Hotel on the left, shows the extent of the beach.
There are overgrown sandpits above the junction of Victoria Road (centre left), and Beach Road (centre) which has since been re-named Shore Road.
attracting hordes of trippers from London from 1753 onwards, Westgate remained a more sedate and favoured place for families throughout the late Victorian and Edwardian era, with its broad sandy beaches
Young day-trippers on the beach are preparing to enjoy a traditional ride on one of the six donkeys retained here for the purpose during the summer months.
Donkeys are awaiting the arrival of the day's holidaymakers on the beach. A fisherwoman in a tall hat stands behind the donkey boys and their mounts.
Southend The Boating Beach
This view, with the Grand Hotel on the left, shows the extent of the beach.
The Beach House Temperance Hotel (to the right in photograph No 44204) is apparent on the left in this view of the broad Esplanade, looking towards the centre of the town.
attracting hordes of trippers from London from 1753 onwards, Westgate remained a more sedate and favoured place for families throughout the late Victorian and Edwardian era, with its broad sandy beaches
Having accommodated men of the United States 1st Infantry Division before they left Weymouth and Portland to land on Omaha Beach in the D-Day invasion, Freshwater Holiday Camp remains one of the busiest
Southend The Boating Beach
Summer day trips reached beaches, piers and ports from Torquay to Bournemouth. This shot looks northwards to Marine Parade (centre) and beached boats at Cobb Gate.
Donkeys are awaiting the arrival of the day's holidaymakers on the beach. A fisherwoman in a tall hat stands behind the donkey boys and their mounts.
They have been paddling in the shallows on South Beach, facing the broad seaward sweep that takes in Caldy Island and the Gower Peninsula.
They have been paddling in the shallows on South Beach, facing the broad seaward sweep that takes in Caldy Island and the Gower Peninsula.
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.
This small esplanade at East Beach leads from the pier and passes the gangway where the fishermen launch and land their boats. This area is illuminated by beautiful, ornate lamp posts.
Shingle was still being removed from the wide shingle beach (bottom left), and the branch line had been extended to the seaside at West Bay Station (centre right).
The boat was then drawn down to the beach by horses and launched from the beach.
With his powerful business aptitude, Mr Dendy quickly installed the most important tourist commodity, bathing machines; those for the ladies were on Paignton beach, and those for the gentlemen on Preston
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