Seasalter, Composite c.1955
Photo ref: S524141
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Photo ref: S524141
Photo of Seasalter, Composite c.1955

A Selection of Memories from Seasalter

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Seasalter

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My parents had a caravan at The Old Coastguards close to Seasalter Sailing Club from 50s to 70s. It had only 3 caravans on it. I regularly got up early as a child to accompany the site owner, a super guy, while he followed the tide out to put out fishing lines. The next morning going out early morning to get the days catch. My parents seemed unaware of the shifting sands danger at low tide and I had several ...see more
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 boating lake. Dad could only afford summer holidays for me, mum and sister by staying with his mum and dad and driving down to the beach hut each day. Yes, winkles from the sea boiled and ...see more
This was the first holiday of being away from my home in Hatfield Heath. We all went to church on Sunday, & I think this holiday was subsidised by the church to give local children a holiday which they wouldnt otherwise have. This was in 1960s. I was about 6years old?
My memories of holidays in seasalter was getting up early to go mushroom picking in the dykes.also when staying in Yorkletts walk to shines shop to buy the best tasting ice cream I can still remember 60 years later.Great memories. Glenn