Porthtowan, Sands And Coast c.1955
Photo ref: P88037X
Made in Britain logo

Related Photos The following photos are related to this image:

Buy a Print

This image may be available to buy Please send us an enquiry

Please send us an enquiry if you are interested in buying this image Send us an enquiry

This image is a Reference Print: it has not been shown on our website before as it has not been optimised and therefore may not meet the quality standards we require for use in our normal product range. However, we understand that this image could be potentially important for genealogical, local history or architectural research and so we are showing it on the website for on-line research only. The photo may be available to buy, but needs to be checked and optimised before you can place an order.

Why are these different? All 300,000 photographs in The Frith Collection have been scanned, but as the photos were taken over a 110 year period on a wide range of glass & film negatives, using different photographic processes, every image has to be checked and optimised, before we make a print for a customer.

More information

A Selection of Memories from Porthtowan

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 Porthtowan

Sparked a Memory for you?

If this has sparked a memory, why not share it here?

Our first visit to Porthtowan for a holiday was in August 2001 when we took my husband, Chris' five year old son Daniel for a stay at The Beach Hotel. The owners, Sian and Colin and their four children made us very welcome and we were to become friends. Every summer we would trek down to Porthtowan from Essex, time was spent playing in rock pools, drinking at The Blue Bar near the beach and walking the ...see more
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 was motorway and with breaks we would be pulling on to Porthtowan car park,bleary eyed at around 10-30 am. Usually on arrival it was raining cats and dogs but we didn't care, the ...see more
years from 81 to now happy memories too many to share i now live spain if i wasnt here id be there maybe one day