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Summer Holidays At Tyn Y Morfa
In the early 60s we used to travel to Talacre for a fortnight holiday in a caravan. One year my parents didn't pre-book but we travelled from Liverpool on the off chance we would find a place. I remember my father ...Read more
A memory of Tyn-y-Morfa by
Summer Holidays At Jaywick 1960 70
My grandparents owned a beachfront bungalow and every summer from the year I was born, 1960, to when they sold it in 1970, we spend summers there. Does anyone remember the trampoline compound, where you could also hire ...Read more
A memory of Jaywick by
Summer Holidays At Dol Y Bont
I have very fond and happy memories of Borth & Dol-y-Bont. Most of my childhood school holidays were spent in the lovely village of Dol-y-Bont where my grandparents, Nan and Pop Pallister lived. They originally ...Read more
A memory of Dol-y-Bont in 1975 by
Summer Holidays In Worthing
My parents rented one of these chalets, number 41 I believe, and we used to spend a lot of time down there sitting outside in the sun and walking across to the beach for a swim when it got too warm. We had a calor gas stove ...Read more
A memory of Worthing by
Summer Holidays From 1949 Onwards
Despite its northerly location The Broch was the Summer Holiday destination for our family from my birth in 1949. My mother had been born there in Grattan Place where the Scottish side of the family had ...Read more
A memory of Fraserburgh in 1949 by
Summer Holidays
Many of my childhood summer holidays were spent at Sandown. We usually stayed at Mrs. Woodnutt's hotel in Carter Street. Mr. Woodnutt hired out the deck chairs on Sandown Beach. He also kept ferrets and I was allowed to go and help ...Read more
A memory of Sandown in 1950 by
Summer Holidays
The sun always seemed to shine on our annual summer holiday to my grandmother's at Emmanuel Road. What excitement running down West hill to the town and the beach. There was always a ride on the boating lake, you could smell the ...Read more
A memory of Hastings in 1955 by
Summer Holidays
When we were kids we used to holiday at East Runton nearly every year. We stayed with George and Mabel Bonney (and Trixie the dog) at Shepherds Cottage on the common. I think it was called Top Common. My Dad hired two beach huts ...Read more
A memory of East Runton in 1962 by
Summer Holidays
My grandparents lived in Little Common for as long as I can remember. My family spent many summer holidays at Grandma & Grandad's. In the early sixties we would take the train from Letchworth to King's Cross, a taxi to ...Read more
A memory of Little Common in 1960 by
Summer High Tides
I used to hire the Council deck chairs and beach floats on East Looe beach and rake and clean out the beach tents as a student summer job. On the high tides when the tents were removed the sea would break against the promenade wall. ...Read more
A memory of Looe in 1965 by
Captions
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The passenger launch SS 'Queen Elizabeth' has almost beached to disembark and take on board passengers. A gangplank has been laid to the foreshore.
This landmark at Towan Beach becomes a true island at high tide. A house was built here and connected to the mainland by a suspension footbridge in the early 20th century.
Certainly the ladies prefer this side, which has easy access to the beach from the smart part of town.
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.
By 1918 Margate Council had become envious of Pettman's monopoly of bathing at Cliftonville and made a charge for the bathing rights and the hiring of deckchairs on the popular Cliftonville beaches
With its sheltered sandy beaches, it has become popular with holiday makers.
The village stands on the skyline above the approach to the popular golden sand of Crantock Beach.
A number of people, on the beach by the bathing machines in the distant back ground, enjoy the mirror-calm water.
Their attention has been attracted by a fisherman handling a box on the beach, whcih could have been handed down by the person inside the boat.
Here, looking towards Ingoldmells Point, are the sandy beach and the sand dunes, a view now radically changed by the more recent sea defences with a massive concave-fronted sea wall forming a promenade
The fine white-sailed boat out at sea was a holiday boat, which would take visitors on a little trip around the pier and along the beach.
Away from the tourist area of Beach Road the little village of Hemsby remained unspoilt for many years. Still standing without change is St Mary's.
This early picture of the beach at Ramsgate shows the benches that were precursors of the modern deck chair and a few bathing machines. Ramsgate Sands Station is in the centre of the picture.
The press of humanity on beach and pier proved the boast of the Council: 'Blackpool will not be left behind in any respect'. The greatest attraction at the seaward end was the Indian Pavilion.
Swings and donkey rides were available for the children; note the striped bathing huts and (left) a temporary stage for the concert party, Carlton's Cosy Corner, higher up the beach.
Well placed to attract passing motorists, it also served the visitors who came to enjoy a day on the shore, where a fine sandy beach borders the sea.
Before the advent of cheap, foreign package holidays, Lancashire resorts and beaches continued to draw summer crowds, with donkeys and deckchairs here completing a traditional British scene.
The bowling green is surrounded by beach huts and set amidst suburbia in St Edmund's Road, with Cordy's Regal restaurant, now The Alex, to the right.
Famous for the quality of its beaches, Millport developed as a resort following the construction of the harbour and the introduction of a ferry service to and from Largs.
In this picture smart young men stroll along the beach, and ladies who are brave enough to enter the sea would change into their swimsuits in the bathing tents.
Deckchairs and beach tents were available for hire, and the donkeys are saddled to take different age groups.
It is remarkable that it still survives, albeit moved a hundred yards west to the other side of the Thurrock Yacht Club, where it continues to moulder gently on the beach.
'Hence Rhyl has become noted for the number of children that visit it, and these little ones find an inexhaustible fund of pleasure on its beach'.
A large pleasure boat beaches to unload its passengers, and a bandstand could still attract an audience in this university town cum resort in West Wales.
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