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Sunshine And Showers
From Bury to Porthtowan in those days was a long hard drive, especially with three screaming kids in the back. To make it easier we would set off at 2am and drive through the night... in those days less than half the distance ...Read more
A memory of Porthtowan in 1973 by
Childhood Holidays In Fairy Cross
This photo has brought back so many memories of when I had my summer holidays in the last house before the white houses. There was a gate to the side of the house which lead into a large garden where my grandad ...Read more
A memory of Abbotsham in 1973 by
Pagham Fisherman
I was born in 1972 and lived with my Parents and younger Brother on Pagham Beach where my Father Chris Dodd was the local Pagham Fisherman...he is still fishing with his mate Don and my father is now 62 years in 2006. Lots of the train ...Read more
A memory of Pagham in 1972 by
Foxs Riding School
I'm from the USA but my mom is from Yorkshire and we spend many happy summers in Filey with my grandparents (every is living here in Southern California now). They had a home near the beach and we would spend the weekends in ...Read more
A memory of Hunmanby in 1972 by
Kennack
I have been coming to Kennack since I was a toddler. But 1972 was the first of many years that stand out to me. My family met another family and we are still in touch now, 36 years and more later. My memories are so many, borrowing ...Read more
A memory of Kennack Sands in 1972
The Beach Huts
We spent many lovely holidays here and my lasting memory is of our first job was to race down to the beach and see 'Dick' Davies and sort a beach hut for our 2 weeks stay, they were a little piece of calm when the weather was rough, ...Read more
A memory of Overstrand in 1972 by
The Outdoor Pool
Spending all day at the pool/beach when I was a kid. Would go in the sea, run along to the pool, jump in the shallow end ( cos you were getting a bit cold by this time ) and bliss, it was like being in a sauna. mmmmm Hurrying ...Read more
A memory of Burntisland in 1972 by
Wounderful Memories
Worked at the Bay Hotel as a chambermaid, to start with on weekends and school holidays. Worked with great people, and the guests were wounderful too. Very fond memories, met my husband at the disco there, it's a great shame it was demolished. Wounderful place with the fantastic beach.
A memory of Rhosneigr in 1972
Beautiful Beaches
My parents lived in Ennors Road in Newquay during the early 70s. They were an RAF family. I was newly-married & lived in Kent, but I used to love visiting them & spending holidays in beautiful Newquay. My new husband used ...Read more
A memory of Newquay in 1972 by
Visit To Jura 1972
Arrived by the ferry and stayed at Knockrome. I think the owner was called Boyle. There was certainly a Paddy Boyle. THere were some really old standing stones around Knockrome and you could climb up to the peninsula called Rubb' ...Read more
A memory of Craighouse in 1972 by
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This parade of large shops and houses are just round the corner from the station. The pebbly storm beach gives way to a vast fine sandy beach, covered in this photograph by a high tide.
Rhyl is famous for its great windy expanse of beach facing Liverpool Bay.
This end of a narrow valley at the foot of a steep hill has been a popular seaside resort for many years. It also had nearby coal-pits, which transported some of their coal from the beach here.
This view shows Front Beach and Railway Street, now the Strand. In the foreground is Craig-y-Mor or Rock Villa. The small building in the garden was originally a boathouse.
Until the 1840s Paignton was a farming village half a mile inland, producing cider and the then famous Paignton cabbage, but it became popular with convalescents and its beach - longer and better than
The beach is seen at low tide, with striking clouds and the sun glinting on the surf.
Here we see a typical family trip to the seaside. The boy has his bucket and spade, the girl a bucket, and dad has his pipe.
Duporth Beach is just around the corner from Charlestown, and is separated from it by the headland and Polmear Island offshore.
This was originally built as stabling for the gentry who would trot up the mile of embankment in their carriages to visit Wells beach.
The beach is lined with numerous beach yawls; these did all the fetching and carrying for the cargo-carrying ships which plied the North Sea, as well as competing for lucrative salvage prizes when they
Here we have a wonderfully evocative sign of the times: a beach scene in high summer and not a glimpse of bare ?esh. Cleethorpes liked its helter-skelters, as it had another on the beach.
An excellent view showing the wide sweep of Saltburn Bay, with Huntcliffe and the Ship Inn and the cluster of cottages around it which formed the original Saltburn.
The Esplanade 1899.
Lying north from Liverpool were continuous golden sandy beaches.
The beach was where the unlicensed traders set up, and where the cheaper end of the entertainments went on, including the boxing booths and the travellers' fairground.
A similar gap to the one at West Runton provides reasonable access to the beach.
At this time there was not a lot for the children to do, other than paddle, dig trenches and make castles on the sandy beach.
Chalets, a villa and the Bay View Hotel overlook the Hive and Burton Beach from the end of Beach Road. The sandy rocks of Burton Cliffs project towards Lyme Bay (left).
This was a typical holiday scene on the beach in the 1940s: none of the visitors are sunbathing, and the children are not wearing swimming costumes, and yet in the background there are dozens of beach
A fun fair can be seen in the foreground, and the beach entertains many visitors in this view of old Saltburn, with the Ship Inn just visible over the shoulder of Cat Nab (right).
Middle Beach (foreground) at Studland, is overlooked by the 1943-built Fort Henry on Redend Point (right-hand clifftop), which Canadian Engineers named for their home base in Ontario.
The huts are arranged just above the high tide mark along the length of Par Beach. Much of the sand has been derived from waste entering the bay from mines and china clay works inland.
Note the Beach Cafe (left) and the groynes on Charmouth beach; we are looking eastwards to Cain's Folly (centre) and Golden Cap (right). Offshore are the Mouth Rocks.
This seaside resort on the Cardigan Bay coast shelters behind its sand dunes and wide sandy beach. Its reputation as a watering-place was founded on the exceptional purity of its air and water.
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