Books

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Memories

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Youthful Pranks In Binstead! 1958 1962

I am a 67 year old British citizen and have lived for over 40 years as a rock musician in Germany. I went to Ryde School in the 60s. After I left I was lonely living in London and used come back to the island ...Read more

A memory of Binstead by Simon Hornsby

Fond Memories

I first visited Borth as a toddler in the early 60's, with my Uncle Dai from Machynlleth. I used to visit him and his wife to stay with them for holidays. As he had worked the railways he used to take me from Mach to Borth on the train ...Read more

A memory of Borth by Sheila Tunstall

Happy Days In The Sun

This was my idea of heaven. For 7 years during my early childhood we went to Nefyn for 2 weeks during the summer. Dad always rented a beach hut to "brew up in" and hold the deckchairs and swimming stuff. The highlight of the ...Read more

A memory of Nefyn by Helen Neaves Wilde

Holidays

We came to Pembrokeshire on family holdiays all through the 1960s and early 1970s. This beach was our favourite although we called it, mistakenly, 'Barry Island Beach' as to reach it you had to go through Barry Island Farm and a toll of ...Read more

A memory of Llanrhian by John Baxter

Granddads Donkeys

I was most surprised to see my late grandfather William Mannall and possibly my uncle Paul with granddads donkeys ,which he had for many years on the beach at Hemsby and also later at Newport (uncle Paul). I had many gratis rides to ...Read more

A memory of Hemsby by Don Bullen

Carnforth Lodge Lancaster Road

As a child in the 1960’s and 70’s I went several times with my family to visit Mrs Esther Pomfret (Auntie Ettie to us; she was a relation of my father's) at Carnforth Lodge, Lancaster Road.  I don't think this is shown ...Read more

A memory of Carnforth by Isabel Yeo

Days Gone By

I lived in Fleetwood from around 1948 - 1952. My dad was in the army and we lived in the Drill Hall in (Ithink) Preston Street. I can remember going to the library nearby and playing on the beach near some piers. There was a young ...Read more

A memory of Fleetwood by Ann Levers

East Front Road In The Sixties

My Grandparents, George and Ella Ashford, had retired to Pagham in 1958. They lived at number 12 East Front Road. Their bungalow was very comfortable with a great view out over the channel. The original railway carriage ...Read more

A memory of Pagham by John Ashford

Growing Up Years

I was born in Old Argent Street 1945 (VJ Day), only one in Grays as my old mum used to tell everyone, she was so proud of that, living in a 2 up, 2 down, mum, dad, 3 brothers, 2 sisters, overcrowded, nah, we got by. We spent summers ...Read more

A memory of Grays by Victor Chaplin

Memories Of A Childhood In Southwick

I went to Southwick Primary School. I remember being picked as a 'flag flyer' and welcoming the Duke of Edinburgh when he opened the new lock. I think it was in about 1955. We were unable to use the locks whilst ...Read more

A memory of Southwick by Susan Collins

Captions

1,131 captions found. Showing results 169 to 192.

Caption For Bucks Mills, From Beach C1890

The little sea wall on the beach is topped by a fine selection of winches and windlasses, all essential for hauling boats up the beach and clear of storms.

Caption For Exmouth, The Sands 1890

People from Exeter used the sea and sands, the only good bathing beach in the east, back in the early seventeenth century.

Caption For Whitby, The Sands 1927

Beside Beach Villa with the Metropole just behind, the new cliff lift was in process of being constructed; it was eventually to make access to and from the beach much simpler.

Caption For Portland, Chesil Beach 1890

Chesil Beach is a great ridge of shingle eight miles long, with a lagoon of brackish water between it and the mainland.The stones tend to be larger at one end of the beach than the other.

Caption For Par, Beach Huts 1938

In the days before environmental concerns, both Par Beach and nearby Carlyon Bay were badly polluted by white, sticky clay runoff; as late as the seventies, it was clogging family washing machines after

Caption For Highcliffe, C1955

As the beach huts suggest, its long beach is popular with bathers and promenaders.

Caption For Trenarren, Hallane Beach 1912

The little valley of Trenarren reaches the coast just to the west of Black Head, and the stream cascades over the cliff onto the beach.

Caption For Aldeburgh, Moot Hall 1894

The timber-framed Tudor Moot Hall is situated next to the beach.

Caption For Margate, The Sands 1918

The 'togetherness' of these Margate beach crowds was legendary; the whole beach was once heard to erupt into song:'Yes, we have no bananas …'

Caption For Lydstep, Cave Of Beauty 1890

The 'Droch' or Cave of Beauty is regarded as the finest at Lydstep Cavern Beach.

Caption For Heacham, South Beach C1965

The line of beach-huts makes a striking background to this picture of a father and son sea fishing from the pebbly beach.

Caption For Bournemouth, East Cliff 1897

This view of East Cliff, with well-clad visitors strolling along the beach, and sailing boats drawn up on the shore, shows a south coast beach before development and formalisation changed its character

Caption For Westward Ho!, The Pebble Ridge And Sands 1932

Still a popular beach today, particularly with locals, the Pebble Ridge is a long low expanse protecting the entrance to the Taw and Torridge estuary.

Caption For Ilfracombe, Wildersmouth Beach 1899

Wildersmouth Bay was the original bathing beach of the town; those beaches to the west only became accessible after the drafting in of Welsh miners to dig the tunnels by which they are now reached.

Caption For Fleetwood, The Beach And Lower Lightouse 1892

Then, as now, the beach was popular with children, who here play at the water's edge whilst older boys admire the moored fishing boat.

Caption For Studland, The Beach 1925

Studland has one of the best and least tampered-with beaches in Dorset - a real reminder of those halcyon days when such luminaries as George III promoted the merits of sea bathing.

Caption For Sidmouth, The Beach 1924

Sidmouth's pebbly beach has never deterred sea bathers and paddlers, though building sandcastles was a harder task.

Caption For Worthing, Perambulators 1925

During the first quarter of the 20th century Worthing's beach was very popular with visitors and inhabitants alike.

Caption For Filey, On The Beach C1950

Lines of wind shelters adorn the beach at the popular Yorkshire coast resort of Filey.

Caption For Cadgwith, 1931

Cadgwith is an important fishing cove, especially for shellfish; boats are hauled up the beach – there is no quay.

Caption For Bude, The Bathing Beach 1920

'Tommy's Pit', built at the end of the breakwater, was strictly men only, while women used Crooklets beach, then named Maer Beach.

Caption For Pentewan, Sconhoe Farm And The Beach 1931

Outdoor holidays are being pioneered here, with just a few tents and caravans on the edge of the beach at Sconhoe Farm.

Caption For Morfa Bychan, Black Rock Sands C1960

Many a local will remember learning to drive for the first time on this huge beach near Porthmadog, although summer access is now a little more restricted than we see here.

Caption For Budleigh Salterton, On The Beach 1901

These boats up on the pink shingle beach are probably rowing boats for hire - they were painted red, white and blue.