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Special Memories Pier And Baths
When I was 9 we lived in a new block of flats (at that time) opposite the Pier and just across the road from the baths. I used to walk to Stanwell Rd School through the Park which was always beautiful. I actually never ...Read more
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Great Memories
I was at Angus house garden city woodford Essex. in the 60s I used love going on holidays to yarmouth we used put our mattresses in the back of a van and go to the church hall it was great every day uncle that was mr and mrs ...Read more
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Barnett Family
Hi, just trying to find out more information on my family - mother was Edna Barnett, who was the youngest child of Fred and Catherine (Cass) Barnett who lived on Trealaw Road. Mum was the youngest of 9 surviving children with her ...Read more
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Southall Memories
My parents, who came to England from India in 1955, when I was 3 months old, moved to Southall in 1959, from Whitton, when I was 4. I remember Southall Broadway at that time-there was actually a saddlery business there! C. ...Read more
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Purveyor Of Sweetshops
I knew all the best sweet shops on Lavendar Hill Rd. Easily the best was Browns Sweet shop where Stormont Rd met Lavendar Hill. It had every sweet you could think of and seemed to be open 7 days a week until 9pm. I think the ...Read more
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The Kings Arms Marston's 1807
My Uncle Frank and Aunt Vi managed this pub back in the 60's. My Uncle, Frank Edward Betts was Mayor of Appleby in 1954 and was a manager at Express Dairies. I am trying to find out if this pub still ...Read more
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When Victor Value Came To Town
One sunny day in the late 1950's the next door neighbour came knocking at our door with some exciting news. A big new food store had opened on the Broadway, Bexleyheath,. It's a Supermarket, she said. It's Victor ...Read more
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Memories Of West Hendon
I was born in 1946. I lived in Stuart Avenue opposite the large floral clock of Edmunds Walker co. The clock was adorned with flowers all through the year. There was a field at the end of our road adjacent to the Edgeware ...Read more
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St John’s Street
I have many fantastic memories of visiting my grandparents, aunties and uncles, cousins who lived and still live there. My Bampi worked in the butchers at the top of the hill, My hero, my dad, was a butcher as well but he also ...Read more
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Waiting For The Bus
As a small child and a grown woman with children of my own I remember waiting for the Wakefield bus after a visit to my grandparents. Some times it would be the West Riding bus, at other times it was the United one. Until his ...Read more
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Aberystwyth became a popular resort for the well-to-do, who came here to bathe and socialise from the late 18th century.
Church Town in the parish of North Meols had long had a tradition of sea-bathing, associated with a couple of local festivals known as Big and Little Bathing Sundays, when the natives took to the waters
This view shows the Georgian façade of the New Bath Hotel, originally known as Mr Tyack's New Bath Hotel.
Named after the Steyne in Brighton, this delightful and relatively unchanged long narrow square was laid out in the 1820s and is lined by modest seaside houses, many with verandahs and balconies which
These baths are around the corner from where Throwley Road once turned to the north (it is now Throwley Way and acts as an inner relief road or High Street by-pass).
The smaller bathing machines seen here are bearing advertising posters for Pears Soap, one of the most popular and widely advertised Victorian retail products.
The Roman town of Aquae Sulis, now Bath, grew up at the point where the Fosse Way crossed the River Avon with hot spring-fed baths as its focus, where citizens of the Empire flocked for rheumatic cures
Lines of hotels along the sea front testify to Sandown's continued popularity through the 20th century.
This view was taken shortly after the Royal Baths opened. They were said to be unequalled in decoration and roominess, and for 5/6d you could get a mud bath with electricity.
A view looking north west, past the tower and along the east wall of the harbour, to Ireland's Eye.
In the centre of the picture are a number of coal and stores hulks, and also what appears to be the turret-ship HMS 'Conqueror', built at Chatham and carrying a main armament of 2 x 45-ton guns
Lines of hotels along the sea front testify to Sandown's continued popularity through the 20th century.
It was the early use of bathing machines that made Weymouth such a popular resort for sea bathing. The larger machines shown here ran down to the water on rails, and had a number of cubicles.
Bathing has not always been the family pastime it is today. 'Tommy's Pit', built at the end of the breakwater, was strictly men only, while women used Crooklets beach, then named Maer Beach.
Were bathing machines (right) being used as late as 1929?
Safe bathing brought thousands of early visitors to Shanklin, as we can see from the profusion of bathing huts and tents. Many of the boats in the foreground would have been for hire.
This view was taken shortly after the Royal Baths opened. They were said to be unequalled in decoration and roominess, and for 5/6d you could get a mud bath with electricity.
Below Newgate Gap Bridge, on the right hand side, was Charlotte Pettman's original sea water baths, and she claimed that her bathing machines were far superior to any others.
Weymouth became popular as a seaside resort thanks to the patronage of George III, who came to bathe here for the good of his health.
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
The coastline bulging out around the Wish Tower affords a vantage point for views north-east along the beach; this view shows the horse-drawn bathing machines on their large wheels plying their trade
The Fosse Way runs down from the right of this picture to meet the Avon and follow it to Bath, three miles away.
The early use of bathing machines made Weymouth a popular resort for sea bathing.
A good bathing day beneath Appley Cliffs, which give shelter to Shanklin's southern beaches. A very steep climb leads up the cliffs above the line of bathing tents.
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