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Memories

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Fishing & Folk Clubs

During the mid '70's I spent many happy school holidays in Christchurch. My brother, Colin, worked at the MoD base (Signals Research & Development) nearby. He had lodgings with a Mrs Alison in the town. There was a direct ...Read more

A memory of Christchurch by bru.enzer

Growing Up In And Around Kirkthorpe

I was born 1965 at Walton Hall and for the first few years of my life lived at Warmfield Lane opposite George Shaw's farm. We then moved to Woodland Ave in Kirkthorpe, a small house with a huge garden that ...Read more

A memory of Kirkthorpe in 1970 by Ian Shaw

Childhood

My maternal grandparents lived at The Beeches, 16 Clarendon Road and my parents and I lived with them for my first three years and then returned regularly for holidays for several years. I remember Worthington Park and always having to sit on ...Read more

A memory of Sale by Elizabeth Hardcastle

Some Good Times & Some Bad Times..

I was about 6 or 7 when I was first in Wales. I was put into a school in place called Llanabrie, it was called Coombe School and I think it was a ‘naughty boys’ school. It was a long time ago; I don’t think I was ...Read more

A memory of Llansteffan in 1940 by Robin Watts

Glades End, Surf Crescent

Eastchurch cliffs My parents bought a plot of land on the Eastchurch cliffs in the 1940s and my father designed and had built our bungalow called Glades End in Surf Crescent. At this time, there were very few buildings on ...Read more

A memory of Eastchurch in 1953 by Susan Copeman

Jaywick!

Our Aunt had a really Art Deco property in Jaywick- curvey windows, flat roof the size of a football pitch(it seemed); huge room with amazing folding dividing doors. And the whole place smelt of Jaywick sand. Not polluted sand, but ...Read more

A memory of Clacton-On-Sea

Happy Times At Holcombe Devon

My Gran and Grandpa  had a cottage in Holcombe Village "shrimp Cottage" at the top of the hill. This cottage was later left to me, but I sold it in the 60s during the slump!!! I have some wonderful ...Read more

A memory of Holcombe in 1958 by Jill Butcher

Happisburgh And Eccles On Sea

My brother Joc lived in Cockleshell, Church Lane, on the Bush Estate in Eccles-on-Sea. I went for holidays and one of the first places we went to was the beach, from where we could see the Happisburgh Lighthouse to ...Read more

A memory of Happisburgh in 2004 by Elsie Mc Allister

Living In A Bus At Talacre In The 1960s

I have very distinct memories of living, as a young child, in one of two single decker buses near the beach at Talacre. I recall tall beds and paraffin lamps with tall glass chimneys. My father was originally ...Read more

A memory of Talacre in 1961 by David Richards

The Happiest Holidays Of My Life

me and my brother,mum and nan always went to Jaywick for our holidays, and stayed in a bungalow near gorse green, my brother and I used to go to the top of our road and ride the double bikes with the canopies for ...Read more

A memory of Jaywick in 1971 by Anna Steel

Captions

1,131 captions found. Showing results 769 to 792.

Caption For Lulworth, The Beach And A Steam Boat C1955

They are about to walk the plank down to the shingle beach beside the cafe (bottom left). Lulworth was a favourite stopping point on services between Weymouth and Swanage.

Caption For Mundesley, The Ship Hotel C1955

Concerns were aroused after a number of incidents where bowls fell over the cliff and narrowly missed people on the beach below.

Caption For Lancing College, C1955

Subsequent silting of the river mouth and its movement to the east thanks to a shifting shingle beach led to the decline of the port at Steyning, and the establishment of the town of New Shoreham by the

Caption For Bognor Regis, From The Pier 1903

Beyond the line of bathing machines, waves crash against the beach in this turn-of-the-century photograph. Much of the town's architecture dating from this period survives today.

Caption For Brancaster, St Mary's Church C1965

The inscription on the stone says that unscrupulous thieves plundered the bodies as they lay on the beach.

Caption For Lyme Regis, 1925

We view the town from the beach below the Royal Standard. The North Wall (right centre) has since been joined to the mainland (in 1979) by a random wall of rough boulders.

Caption For Newquay, Towan Beach 1901

Note the wheeled bathing machines down by the sea, and the curious beach tents and a few deckchairs. Long skirts and parasols are the fashion for the ladies.

Caption For Irvine, The Harbour 1904

A steeply shelving beach on the left-hand side contrasts strongly with the gently sloping mud flats on the other side of this river.

Caption For Seatown, Seatown Farm C1955

It is afternoon milking time, judging by the shadows, at Seatown Farm in Sea Vale Lane, which leads from Chideock to a beach beside the Anchor Inn.

Caption For Lower Heysham, Cliff Walk C1955

The low coastal cliffs below the village provided a pleasant walk above the beach. Hidden by the trees is St Peter's Church, believed to have been founded in 967.

Caption For Mundesley, The Parade C1965

It had its own private staircase down to the beach.

Caption For Llangrannog, The Beach C1955

Llangranog has a small, sheltered bay with a sandy beach on which about 20 ships were built during the 19th century. Like Tresaith, it became popular with holidaymakers from the 1930s.

Caption For Polkerris, Polridmouth Beach Near Gribbin Head C1960

This scene has hardly changed for many years; the beach at Polridmouth is still only accessible on foot.

Caption For Deal, From The Pier 1899

The tall building with a flag flying at the top (right) was the Beach House Temperance Hotel.

Caption For Scarborough, Castle From The East Pier C1958

Scarborough's sandy beaches are still as popular with northern holidaymakers, who still throng to the seaside town for the donkey rides, candy floss and sticks of rock as they did 50 years ago.

Caption For Fleetwood, The Beach 1902

To the left, overlooking the beach, stands the lifeboat station and, on the right, one of the town's two lighthouses.

Caption For Port Isaac, 1895

The ship on the beach is typical of the two-masted coastal schooners that plied their trade in the days before motor vehicles came to be used for the moving of commodities.

Caption For Seaton, The Sands 1920

The valley of the River Seaton runs inland from the beach to Hessenford.

Caption For Seaton Carew, The Promenade C1965

The beach tents give the picture a period feeling. A bandstand once stood on the open area in front of the Marine Hotel.

Caption For Wells Next The Sea, The Beach 1939

Although Wells is a natural seaside resort with a soft sandy beach and shallow sea for bathing, the lookout and lifeboat station in the background mark the possibility of dangers, particularly for those

Caption For Wells Next The Sea, Jacob's Ladder 1950

These dunes were banked up to stop sea encroachments, and this set of steps had to be erected to enable access to the beach.

Caption For Ramsgate, The Beach C1880

Note the wheeled stalls on the beach, and the row of chairs all in a line.

Caption For Filey, The Parade 1932

The long promontory of Filey Brigg, part of a huge curve of cliffs, shelters this long stretch of firm beach from the worst of the north-east gales. A new parade was constructed in 1955.

Caption For Exmouth, The Sands 1890

At the beginning of the last millennium, marauding Danes landed on these sandy beaches and put the village of Exmouth to fire and sword.