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My grandma and granddad and my mum and dad, with me and my brother who was six years old then, and my baby sister spent two weeks in the summer of 66 - we was in Margate for two weeks. The weather was glorious and really warm we ...Read more

A memory of Margate by kevinroberthayes86

I recall as a child in the 1950s, being taken on outings from my grandparents' home in Litherland via Seaforth/ South Road stations to the beach at Marine Crescent, Waterloo. On a recent nostalgic trip there I was surprised ...Read more

A memory of Waterloo in 1956 by First Name Last Name

I think we moved to Farnham Common in about 1967, my parents took over the family shops "Martin's Broadway Stores" we lived above the shops to start with, in a flat that was heated with green house paraffin ...Read more

A memory of Farnham Common by carolynselley

"...I used to play in the castle and what we thought were dungeons in the middle to late 1950s. It was our playground for many years. We went to the beach nearly every day summer or winter..." Maybe we know each other? ...Read more

A memory of Kirkcaldy by brainyfurball

I was stunned to see this photograph of my dad and me taken at Swalecliffe. We started to go to Seaview Camp in 1949 and in 1950 dad, who was a carpenter and joiner by trade, built us a chalet in our back ...Read more

A memory of Swalecliffe by barbara.macknish

My father's aunt and uncle lived in Newhaven. Ted Hoskins was his uncle's name, he was injured in the First World War and later worked at the lighthouse at the end of the breakwater before it was automated. His wife's name was ...Read more

A memory of Newhaven in 1955 by Dorothea Smedley

We (me and older brother and sister), stayed in a relatives bungalow really close to the sea several years.. disjointed but strong memories :- - pebble dashed walls - those garden walls made of preformed concrete blocks with patterned ...Read more

A memory of Jaywick

Seasalter - A place name from the past for 2 reasons. No.1 - in the 1960s my paternal grandmother and grandfather had retired from Tooting, Sarf London to Bapchild, Sittingbourne and had acquired a beach hut close by the ...Read more

A memory of Seasalter by mothpoet

This is what Dad had to say when I emailed him this site and the photos from 1955. Dad lived in Oakley from childhood until 1987, when as a family we moved to Adelaide Australia. I myself lived in the village from ...Read more

A memory of Oakley in 1955 by Gary Dean

Where Broughty Castle guards the mouth of the River Tay In the tower we climbed up a weathered stone stairway To look far over the fair land of our fathers Later you took a photograph of me at a quay in the ...Read more

A memory of Broughty Ferry in 2004 by Sonja Nic Rafferty