Places
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Photos
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Maps
115 maps found.
Books
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Memories
1,374 memories found. Showing results 421 to 430.
Sanitorium
When Seaham Hall was used as a T B hospital this extension was built at the side, we used to walk through the hall grounds on our way to the beach from New Seaham and the French Windows were always open and the beds wheeled outside even ...Read more
A memory of Seaham by
Sandown Youth Hostel
It was 1969 and I had just come down from Manchester and was staying once more in my family home in Hatch End. My parents suggested that I took my younger brother away for a break following his "O" Levels so we set off for a ...Read more
A memory of Sandown in 1969 by
Same Name
My name is Louise Brown and I live in Australia. I went to England in 2007, had a wonderful time. I spent some time in Padstow because I lived in Padstow in Sydney Australia. I had heard so much about Padstow in England, especially Rick ...Read more
A memory of Padstow in 2007 by
Sam The Peanut Man And My Holidays In The 60s
I love Leysdown. In fact when our boys were little we used to take them there. They in turn go there now. My dad couldn't drive so our uncle used to have a caravan on Harts Farm and we used to ...Read more
A memory of Leysdown-on-Sea by
Sally Busby(Nee Bench)
I had to leave this school due to my father's death and missed it terribly. ALL my closest friends were now too far away to see. Because it was a boarding school, it was like being taken away from my family. My most enjoyable young years were had here.
A memory of East Grinstead in 1972
Styal = Happy School Days
I went to this great school around 1979 - 1983. I remember some of the great teachers including Miss Curtis, Miss Bowcock, Mr Holland, Mr Burroughs, Mr Bolton, etc. Some fellow class members were Paul Renshaw, Gary Kilby, Steven ...Read more
A memory of Styal by
Snapshots
As a very little boy we moved from Birkenhead in the North West, Merseyside to Luton. It was the 1950s and my Dad had a job in Vauxhall's. His brother Tom was already a General Foreman there and his younger brother John (that's what we all ...Read more
A memory of Luton by
Selsey
I spent several holidays in a chalet with long verandah which was one of the first on the right just after a burnt out house and just before the caravans started in Mill Lane during the late 1940s and early 1950s. I remember getting off the ...Read more
A memory of Selsey by
Rupert Street In The 60s 70s
I lived in Southdown House, opposite the Gas Works, from 1960 until 1978, when I got married. We had moved when I was 5 from Northwood Street off Livery Street not far from St Pauls square. I attended Cromwell Street ...Read more
A memory of Nechells in 1965
Roy Hamilton (1961)
Another chap I clearly remember in the year I worked at Law Junction was Roy Hamilton who lived in a cottage overlooking the station. Like the old gentleman who was frequently drunk, Roy was also disabled and walked with the aid of ...Read more
A memory of Law by
Captions
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A small transom-sterned barge is beached by the slipway. This photograph is dated c1874, as the railway viaduct is seen complete in the view.
This popular seaside resort sits in a wide sweep of bay on the north coast, with wooded hills behind the promenade, which fronts miles of safe sandy beach.
As can be seen in photograph 36777, Hollingworth supported a number of hotels, one of which, the Beach, featured refreshment rooms that overhung the water and a dancing stage for 2,000 people.
The South Cliff Tramway offered an alternative means of escape from the beach to the Esplanade; the other way up was by the 224 steps cutting through the Spa Gardens.
Here we see another busy beach view in 'The Empress of Watering Places' with many umbrellas protecting ladies from the summer sun.
On the beach in the background are a number of bathing machines. Ladies wishing to bathe would enter the machines from the landward side and horses would haul the contraptions down into the water.
On the beach in the background are a number of bathing machines. Ladies wishing to bathe would enter the machines from the landward side and horses would haul the contraptions down into the water.
Owing to flooding and coastal erosion problems, the cafe was soon to be demolished and another built in its place on high stilts, together with improved sea defences to preserve this area of the beach.
The stay of Mrs Simpson, the future wife of the Duke of Windsor, at Beach House is commemorated in the modern tea room in the old stables.
The long, sandy beach leading eastwards to Hengistbury Head began to be developed around 1870. The pier was built of iron in 1881, and measured 300 feet in length by 30 feet wide.
Hayling Island is 4 miles long and 10 square miles in all, with popular sandy beaches in the south.
Blundellsands beach forms part of the sixteen miles of sand stretching from Waterloo to Southport.
Exmouth had established a reputation of offering alternatives if wet and wild weather ruled out a day on the beach.
The old Beach Hotel seen here gave visitors good views south across The Green to the Promenade and the coastal shipping coming in and out of the harbour to the west.
The Beach 1890. The suffix 'Regis' was added to the name of this seaside town in 1929 after George V spent some weeks recuperating in the area following a major illness.
Using water ballast to operate it, it still works today, making the journey between town and beach a much easier one. The pier opened in 1869, and was originally 1500ft long.
Seine fishing boats are drawn up on Porthminster Beach (right), and an old engine house stands on Pedn Olva Point.
Only a century after its foundation, the town was already dominating the skyline and its beaches were among the most crowded on the south coast.Thomas Hardy described the town as 'Sandbourne' in his
The amusements are down on the beach, with the old museum ship on the right.
The vessel approaching the beach, probably on an excursion, is the 'Reindeer', a ferry launched in 1875 as the successor to the 18-ton 'Queen', which had run from 1860.
Seen as a ruin, looking east from the beach of Worbarrow Bay, stone-roofed Sea Cottage was the home of generations of the Miller family.
On the left are a number of shops hoping to catch the eye of the passing visitor on their way to or from the beach.
There were still substantial remains of All Saints' parish church on the cliff top above the beach tents when this photograph was taken; here we see the tower and nave.
Boats are on the Chesil Beach between Chiswell and Victoria Sqaure (top left), with Portland Harbour on the other side of the pebble bank (centre background), in a panorama north-westwards from Paradise
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