Sidmouth, Esplanade Looking East c.1955
Photo ref:
S129037
Photo ref:
S129037
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An elderly visitor contemplates a busy Sidmouth sea front on a summer's day in the 1950s. Just beyond the Marine Hotel is the site of the Sidmouth Brine Baths, where visitors to the town could have massage and 'electrical treatment' - probably a low current passed through the water - as well as the opportunity to bathe in salt and fresh water.
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A Selection of Memories from Sidmouth
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 Sidmouth
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My Great, Great Aunt was Beatrice Spencer. She was a milliner and owned the Millinery/Hat Shop in Fore Street from the early 1900's . The shop was called Spencer's and Beatrice (Aunt Beat) lived on the premises, keeping a large dog for security! She was a remarkable woman and remained single until aged 70 when she married a gentlemen called Alfred Cross in 1941. Beatrice died in 1946.
The shop ...see more
trumps was my families business. long before me! my family lived there up until 2005 last to leave from flat 1 was my mum. funny to see it thanx Melissa Tedbury
This memory is on behalf of a friend who was evacuated from London to Sidmouth in 1944. Her recollection is fairly vague but she was allocated to Brackendale, Ice House Lane which was owned by Mrs Elizabeth, Henriatta Jane Perryman (purchased in May 1934) and run by two ladies, Miss Hood and Miss Fitzgerald. Education was carried out in a local hall. It would be interesting if anyone remembers these two ladies ...see more
Each August huge numbers of dancers and musicians head to Sidmouth for the annual folk festival - a week long event which celebrates our national heritage of music, dance and song. This year I was able to play my piano accordian at the festival for the first time for many years as our local morris side - the Heather and Gorse Clog Dancers from Combeinteignhead - ...see more
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