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I Lived In 1 Rockcliffe View Carlin How
I lived in 1 Rockcliffe View Carlin How, from about 1946 to 1952, then my father retired and we then moved to Loftus. My father was Jim Conway the Police Constable. I went to Skinningrove Senior School, was ...Read more
A memory of Carlin How in 1946 by
Morning Coffee At Rapparee
Wonderful little beach. As a lad in the late 1940's and early 50's, I was a deckchair boy here, and hundreds of people would walk from town to have a coffee at the cafe at the bottom of Rapparee steps, or spend half the ...Read more
A memory of Ilfracombe in 1950 by
Blyth Then And Now
I was born in Newsham in 1952 and then moved to Malvins Close shortly after my sister Joyce was born at the end of 1953. I t was a great place to live and Ken Dawson and I roamed all over the place: the beach, Humford ...Read more
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My Life In Widnes
I lived in Beach Terrace until 1948 then moved to Christie Street. I went to St Bedes school and the Fisher More until 1955. I went to work at the Co-op in Albert Road,it was a great job and I made lots of friends. I love living in ...Read more
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Hemsby In The 70s And 80s
We started holidaying in Hemsby in the late 1970s. My parents loved it as we'd always had caravan holidays previously but now we had a chalet!! They always stayed at Belle Aire site. Hemsby was pretty spartan in those days!! ...Read more
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Mixture
The quaint older houses on the right now faced new bungalows to our left, and on our left is another walkway to the primary school. Now Jimmy came to live in one of the bungalows and then he came to our school when he was about 10. He was from ...Read more
A memory of Eastry by
Langstone Memories
I grew up in Langstone, living at 'Longleat' on Catsash Road from 1961-1973. I attended Langstone Primary School from 1964-1969 and then Caerleon Comprehensive from 1969-1973. 'Longleat' was one of the four semi-detached ...Read more
A memory of Langstone in 1961 by
60 Years Of Denial
I was sent to this place in the mid 50s to recover after being treated for T B , I would be around 6 years old,and being from a village type environment and having no father or siblings this establishment came as a complete shock. I ...Read more
A memory of Hornsea by
Time Flies....
My father relocated our family back to England from Nyasaland (now Malawi) to Bozeat in 1962 and he became station master at nearby Castle Ashby Station. The 1959 move to Africa ended with the demise of The Commonwealth. When Britsih Railways ...Read more
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Postcard Of Two Girls On A Bench
I spent a lot of my childhood at Stone where my parents had a caravan. There was a postcard with two small children on a bench outside Wick Farm pub, of which I am one of the children. I am trying to find a copy of this postcard.
A memory of St Lawrence by
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Situated at the southern end of Filey's long beach, the outcrop of Flamborough Head can be seen in the distance.
Such were the number of visitors navigating the overgrown and makeshift route from the town centre to the beach that the Windsor estate prioritised the construction of a more permanent path.
Its own beach is sandless and full of large pebbles, which seem to sing as the tides play across them.
There are plenty of changing tents on this beach, where a group of boys wave at the camera (centre foreground).
In this picture, guests are returning from the beach and are processing up to the hotel in order to get changed in time for their evening meal, which was often accompanied by soothing live music.
Street furniture is changing with the introduction of the ugly concrete street lamp post outside the timber-framed building that was Beach's bookshop.
More Americans died training here than were killed on Utah Beach on D-Day.
Here a lady can be seen trying to coax a child down the steps to the beach.
One Victorian dress would provide enough material for a dozen or more outfits today, when bikinis rule the beach.
The edge of the beach is lined with bathing machines in this view.
It was more popular with the locals, because it was away from the main beach. The prominent building on the cliff was part of Victoria Gardens.
These days, happily, the only active defences to be found at the resort are sand castles on the beach.
It deliberately provided fewer mass entertainment facilities than Brighton, which presumably accounts for the nearly deserted promenade and beach we see in this picture.
The beach is a clutter of boats and fishing paraphernalia. On the right is the lifeboat house and in the centre a sizeable boat shed, the home of the 'Marianna'. Crabbing is a local industry.
The full length of Grand Parade can be seen, as well as the central beach.
A change in sea level and erosion have combined to produce a fascinating effect off this beach, as documented by Giraldus Cambrensis: 'We then passed over Niwegal sands, at which place (during the winter
At this time, close to the end of the Victorian era, staying fully clothed on the beach was very much the norm, with sand castles and donkey rides the prime amusements for the children; the adults relax
Here we see National Trust shingle and cliffs at the end of Beach Road, with the buildings (top right) comprising the Burton Cliff Hotel.
The scene is Central Beach. J Wolfe and R Penswick were the bathing machine proprietors. These lumbering boxes on wheels were obligatory for swimmers.
The age-old tradition of pony rides on the sand is captured in this photograph of South Lancing beach. The nearby road has houses either side, which limits public access in places.
Nearly a century after its foundation, the town was already dominating the skyline, and its beaches were among the most crowded on the south coast.
The tramway offered holiday-makers an alternative means of escape from the beach to the Esplanade, other than by the 224 steps cutting through the Spa Gardens, and all for just 1d.
A steamer sets out from Exmouth Pier, watched by boatmen on the nearby beach.
The Fleet, a strip of brackish water between the Chesil Beach and the shoreline, gives a safe haven to all kinds of wetland fowl, including at one time a stray flamingo.
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