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Happy Days 1950s And 60s
I was born and brought up in Weaverham until I left to move to Altrincham with my new wife (and job). Over that 20 year period I have so many happy memories; too many to record in 1000 words. Lived in Lime Avenue all ...Read more
A memory of Weaverham by
The War Years
I was born in Ryde in 1938 and when war broke out, my mother and myself moved in with my grandparents, Laurence and Lucy Stroud (nee Meecham) into what is now Wellwood Grange but in those days was just Wellwood. It was the home of ...Read more
A memory of Binstead by
To School Along The Prom
I lived in Mochdre, and went to the grammar school, 1955-1962. Getting off the bus at the station we would walk along the prom, skipping stones in the sea, or dodging the waves during stormy high tides. Then we would ...Read more
A memory of Colwyn Bay in 1955 by
Bicycles And A Happy Hunting Ground.
Being the offspring of parents otherwise engaged, and only partially supervised by a succession of Nannies, whose only concern was that we should be clean and respectably dressed when we got up to mischief, ...Read more
A memory of New Milton in 1950 by
Simply The Best
My parents took us to Kilchattan Bay every year from the mid 1960s. As far as my sister and I were concerned we didn't want to go anywhere else but KB. Used to love climbing the Suidhe which was a ritual for all Glasgow ...Read more
A memory of Kilchattan Bay by
Wyke Regis
My wife Christina Armstrong's (nee Brown) mum Phylis was born and raised in Wyke Regis, both of Phylis's parents along with many of her relatives are buried at this church. Chris's mum was raised at Park Mead Road, her name was ...Read more
A memory of Wyke Regis by
Childhood Holidays
I will never know why, but we used to take the train to Lundin Links, and then taxi to Lower Largo. I don't know when these holidays started (I was born in 1957 and there are certainly photos of me around 3 years old). ...Read more
A memory of Lower Largo in 1965 by
Fishing Off The Pier
My memories of the area around the Castle are of fishing both off the pier and from the beach at the other side of the castle from this picture, it would have been around 1978/9 while I was still an apprentice at Timex and ...Read more
A memory of Dundee by
Help Please
Hello can any one help me please? This is not specifically to Minehead but in April 1960 I stayed at a wooden chaleted holiday camp on the north Somerset coast to the east of Minehead, I think. All I can remember is that I stayed at ...Read more
A memory of Minehead in 1960 by
Leven In The 1950s
I was five and lived on Links Road where my father had a grocer's shop. I was able to run down the burn path to the beach to swim in the sea or play in paddling pool. We would go to the summer shows in the Beach pavillion ...Read more
A memory of Leven in 1957 by
Captions
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The large extension at the back of the inn (right) contained seven bedrooms with doors onto the beach.
The beach is seen at low tide, with striking clouds and the sun glinting on the surf.
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 old boathouse is selling beach balls, lilos, straw hats and so on, but most important from the parents' point of view is that the shop is offering teas and beach trays.
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
Duporth Beach is just around the corner from Charlestown, and is separated from it by the headland and Polmear Island offshore.
Here we have a wonderfully evocative sign of the times: a beach scene in high summer and not a glimpse of bare ?
It also had nearby coal-pits, which transported some of their coal from the beach here.
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
This view shows Front Beach and Railway Street, now the Strand.
Lying north from Liverpool were continuous golden sandy beaches.
The Beach House Temperance Hotel (to the right in photograph No 44204) is apparent on the left in this view of the broad Esplanade, looking towards the centre of the town.
Note the beach café and swings on the beach and, on the bottom right of the picture the glazed fronted café, designed to take full advantage of the sea views but to protect from the unpredictable
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
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.
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.
Chalets, a villa and the Bay View Hotel overlook the Hive and Burton Beach from the end of Beach Road.
A similar gap to the one at West Runton provides reasonable access to the beach.
Shoeburyness East Beach Tent Site
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.
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).
This seaside resort on the Cardigan Bay coast shelters behind its sand dunes and wide sandy beach.
The huts are arranged just above the high tide mark along the length of Par Beach.
This is still a sandy beach on the Solent shore; many beaches in Hampshire are now pebble, possibly due to erosion.
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