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Memories
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The Donkey Path To The Beach
Does anyone remember the `Donkey Path`? The fairy glen looks vaguely familiar but I was very young and can`t remember details. My aunt and family lived in one of the beautiful houses overlooking the beach in Old ...Read more
A memory of Old Colwyn in 1962 by
Bembridge My Home
I was born in Seaview but my mother and grandparents lived at "erndene' Steyne rd. I went to the Bembridge villiage school and attended the villiage church. I was free to roam the villiage aand beaches at will as the villiage was ...Read more
A memory of Bembridge in 1952 by
The Railway Inn
This is a photograph of the railway crossing gate, the line has been long closed (blame Dr Beeching!) The white building on the right is the Culm Valley Inn, prev The Railway Inn. My father Sydney Dennis was licensee, my brother was ...Read more
A memory of Culmstock in 1948 by
Valerie Frith Pearce
The first time I went to Perranuthnoe (Perran) was in 1946 when the Warspite was in trouble and was wrecked at Prussia Cove, only to fine it's final resting place by the side of the Mount. In 1947 I married Richard Pearce and ...Read more
A memory of Perranuthnoe in 1947 by
The Dingle
I lived in Colwyn Bay as a child and have fond memories of The Dingle. It seemed like a magical place to a young child. Over the brook, which runs through The Dingle, there was a little bridge which led to a fortune teller's "cottage". I ...Read more
A memory of Colwyn Bay by
Pearks
Pearks was one of the first supermarkets in Wolverthampton to start trading. I worked there in 1962. My name was Marain Beech, I went on to marry a former work colleague, Chris Rutter. Cheese was cut up on the premises, and so wa bacon. ...Read more
A memory of Wolverhampton in 1960 by
Convent Of The Visitation Bridport Dorset
CHAPTER TWO School Years - Convent of the Visitation 1939-1945 One’s school years leave an indelible impression on one for good or bad. My views over these years in this regard, have modified considerably. ...Read more
A memory of Bridport in 1940 by
My Dads Family
As far back as I can remember I used to visit my gran in Carlin How. My dad and his brothers and sister grew up on Westray Street. I can remember the big common where they used to build the bonfire for Guy Fawkes Night. My dad ...Read more
A memory of Carlin How in 1963 by
Beach
I was born in Torquay in June 1954 in Shrublands Hospital (can anybody remember that hospital, it was in the Warberrys). I left Torquay when I was 23 and came to live in London, my heart is still there. Who knows, I might retire back there. But ...Read more
A memory of Torquay in 1860 by
Wartime Defences
The photo caption for this in the book states that there were girders and wires and mines on Lyme beach during the war. My father Gilbert Atterbury was Town Clerk from the mid thirties until the late fifties and fought the War ...Read more
A memory of Lyme Regis in 1940 by
Captions
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Below, a shingle beach with patches of pea-grit provides a spot for rest and relaxation between Raffey's Ledge and the Mouth Rocks, where the River Char enters the sea.
Ainsdale still allows motor vehicles to park on the beach for a small charge.
Inevitably, the wide street of the Promenade soon became a popular place to park the car, look at the beach and eat an ice cream. It has little changed in that function since.
The North Wall of the harbour (left centre) was still detached from the beach.
Just a decade before, fortified lookouts and pillboxes guarded this scene, and a mass of girders and wires bristled above a mined beach.
In the early days of private aviation, the company's founder Tom Wilson often serviced the string-and-sealing-wax aircraft flown by the pioneers who used Freshfield beach as a landing strip
Note the beach-huts on the landslipped cliff.
Bathing machines can be seen on the beach.
'The sands', says the Frith title, but as you can see, central Morecambe has always had a pebble beach, especially at high tide.
The railway was so busy a century ago that a footbridge was built so that visitors did not have to wait to cross the line to get to the beach.
The historic decorative frontage of the former George Inn, which featured in the flight of King Charles II from the Battle of Worcester, carries the names of Beach the dispensing chemist, and predecessor
Lewes Assizes were popularly referred to as 'The Bungalow Murder', and involved the killing of 37-year-old Emily Kaye at an isolated former customs officer's cottage at The Crumbles, a shingle stretch of beach
The White Swan public house, first mentioned in 1722, stands on raised ground just beyond the beached punts to the left of centre.
Somewhere along this steeply-sloping, shingle beach the armoured legionaries from Julius Caesar's invading army waded ashore in 55BC.
Somewhere along this steeply-sloping, shingle beach the armoured legionaries from Julius Caesar's invading army waded ashore in 55BC.
The Beach Hotel had opened at 4 Marine Parade in 1915, expanding into the whole parade by 1936, when the original red-brick houses that had, in part, comprised The Prince Albert Convalescent Home were
It incorporates turn-of-the- century markets and 1950s beaches.
Some has been used in houses; along North Road and the Quay, large beach cobbles of the same stone have been split and used for building.
When grounded the polacca sat upright; this made it an ideal type of vessel for loading and unloading cargo on beaches at low water.
During the Second World War, when railway use was discouraged and seaside beaches were often designated as military zones, Rugby Council organised a 'Holidays at Home' scheme to entertain local
The workmen's outings and beanfeast parties now patronise the seafront public houses and the amusement arcades instead of congregating on the beach.
AS YOU JOURNEY eastwards from the sedate and literary little town of Lyme Regis towards the sandy beaches and urban sprawl of Bournemouth, you become aware that this beautiful Dorset coast has been
Beyond is Sandy Bay, Littleham's own beach, once a smugglers' cove but now the setting for one of England's largest caravan sites, often echoing with gunfire from the Royal Marines training range
THE golden sands have always been one of Margate's main attractions and have given the resort an advantage over the more common shingle beaches of South-East England.
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