Places
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Maps
115 maps found.
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Memories
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Roch Gate
I am a bit hazy about when we visited Roch but definitely in the 1940s. My father's cousin was Matsy Perkins and she lived at a farm called Roch Gate. I remember sleeping on the most gorgeous feather mattress, so cosy, and we would go ...Read more
A memory of Newgale in 1940
Rix And Co.
Hello, Can anybody remember 'Rix & Co', Ironmongers and Upholsterers, of New Brompton and Sheerness?? I have a small round foot stool, dating from the early 1900's. While cleaning and treating it for bugs etc, I found the makers ...Read more
A memory of Sheerness by
Rhiwbina Square
I have lovely memories of summers spent at my parents' rented house in Rhiwbina Square, a suburb of Cardiff between 1957 and circa 1961). Wonderful neighbours (I particularly recall the Shepherds who had a son about my age), piano ...Read more
A memory of Rhiwbina by
Revistiing
I revisited Edern & Morfa Nefyn after my last visit which was in 1954 with my Mum and Dad as a 12 year old child. I remembered everywhere and my husband was worried I would be disappointed as things would have changed, but they had ...Read more
A memory of Nefyn in 2005 by
Returning To Talacre
I returned with my mother from the United States to Talacre where my grandmother lived. My grandmother's name was Dora Williams, she lived at Beach Cottage, Station Road. Dora Williams during the Second World War owned a bakery ...Read more
A memory of Talacre in 1962
Restful Oasis Of Peace.
Our family moved here from Plymouth in the mid fifties Have fond memories of days spent on the beach when we were children. We lived in Armada Road and in a rented property near the Old Ship Inn. Things I remember were having ...Read more
A memory of Cawsand by
Remembrance Of Things Past
This picture was taken a little after I left the town for further down the coast. I believe that the large building was called the Marine Cafe. A real and rare treat was to go and have a Knickerbocker Glory in a tall ...Read more
A memory of Newbiggin by
Remembering Marske By The Sea
We came to Marske in August 1948 having just demobbed from the Army 9 weeks earlier, we purchased a shop at 221 High St selling groceries, rations, ice cream etc. Our daughter was just 5 weeks old and was ...Read more
A memory of Marske-By-The-Sea in 1950 by
Reighton Gap Fond Memories
My Dad was brought up at Reighton Gap where my Grandad built their home. From the time I was born up until 1988 we had our family holidays as Reighton and we loved every minute of it. We very much remember the Sea ...Read more
A memory of Reighton in 1988
Redcar Pavilion
I remember my Grandmother, May Gray and Pop my Grandfather, William Gray, used to go to the Pavilion Theatre which is now, I think, the Cinema over the beach. She used to watch a man called Billy Breem who later became Larry Grayson ...Read more
A memory of Redcar by
Captions
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Sandsend was just three miles along the sandy beach from Whitby.
West Dorset's medieval seamark on a conical hill above the Chesil Beach was retained after the closure of Abbotsbury Abbey in 1539, and repaired in 1742.
Then building began in earnest as visitors flocked to enjoy its safe, sandy beach and bracing cliff-top walks.
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.
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.
This view looks across the beach with numerous four-wheeled bathing machines that allowed modest entry into the sea for the serious business of sea-bathing.
This view looks across the beach with numerous four-wheeled bathing machines that allowed modest entry into the sea for the serious business of sea-bathing.
This is a view along East Street to the former Market Place, from the Greyhound Hotel (left) which faces the wonderfully elaborate Georgian shop-front of Beach and Company.
Architecturally, the building is more typical of arterial roads, rather than that expected beside the B3157 coast road (bottom right), a mile inland from the western end of the Chesil Beach.
The stout sea wall of today had not been built at the time of this photograph, hence the wide appearance of the beach.
The shingle expanse of Monmouth Beach extends seawards. The factory site became a Royal Air Force base for operating air-sea rescue craft and bombing range launches during the Second World War.
Charles and William Warren were boatmen and Robert Warren quarried sand and sold shingle from the beach to the south.
This well-known holiday resort, which has an excellent sandy beach, stands on the west coast of Wales at the mouth of the Mawddach estuary. Both Darwin and Ruskin enjoyed stays here.
The two-mile-long parade overlooks the sandy beach; at the west end an extensive area was laid out as winter gardens.
The two sandy beaches are separated by a headland crowned by a Norman castle, developed by Edward I.
Charles and William Warren were boatmen and Robert Warren quarried sand and sold shingle from the beach to the south.
A two-masted sailing ship lies in a mud berth, a washing line post leans on the beach and women in long skirts stand and look towards the harbour.
Bathing machines can be seen on the beach.
Beach shops now fill the front garden, and there is a car park in the café garden.
On the beach there was a children's boating pool, and the Pier had a bar and an amusement palace on it. The Pier was built to accommodate the crowds, and was really two piers next to each other.
People do not dress up in their finest clothes for the beach nowadays, but one thing that has not changed is the fact that entertainments then, as now, would have you dipping into your purse.
People do not dress up in their finest clothes for the beach nowadays, but one thing that has not changed is the fact that entertainments then, as now, would have you dipping into your purse.
first bridge here dated from 1855, when local worthy Mrs Cornish allowed its construction at a cost of £26 10s using timbers taken from the sailing vessel Laurel, which had been wrecked on Sidmouth Beach
The picture shows a typical summer's day on east beach, with children building sandcastles or digging for creatures, treasures, or whatever their imagination desires.
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