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Holiday Memories

Happily walking along Ayr beach with an ice cream from the Wellington Cafe, paddling in the sea with my parents! Eating wonderful fish and chips on a windy day. Getting breakfast rolls from one of the many bakers to take back to my aunt's. Going skating at the ice rink with my cousins.

A memory of Ayr in 1960 by Liz Webb

A Polzeath Lad

I grew up in Polzeath and my two best mates also lived in the area, sadly, both dead now. I remember in the summers the CSSM coming down and staying in New Polzeath, arranging lots of beach games in the afternoons but building a ...Read more

A memory of Polzeath by Christopher Le Bailly

Lancing Children's Convalescent Home.

In 1952 or 1953 I was a sickly 5 year old. I had 2 brothers, they were twins and one, unbeknown to me was dying of leukaemia. I was sent on a train with a lady and some other children, for a holiday in Lancing. I ...Read more

A memory of Lancing

Nostalgia

I lived on Hatton Hill Road in the 1940/1950s. Remember the bombs landing across the road in the park and sheltering under the stairs. Bryant and May bombed where my father worked, he then had to travel to Garston each day for the rest ...Read more

A memory of Litherland by Joyce Harris

Last Scene 1985

I spent many childhood holidays visiting our Auntie, Uncle & Cousin Jersey. On one particular occasion, when I was about four & a half, I received the news of the birth of my sister in 1950, at the time my relatives lived in St. ...Read more

A memory of Jersey by Raymond Garfield

Hartford Secondary Modern School

Me and my late twin brother started at this school in 1953, the school was mixed. We were the first ones to be there, it was a brand new school. Fred Beech was the headmaster, he was a grand man and would always ...Read more

A memory of Northwich in 1953 by Peter Drinkwater

My Second Home

Right from a small child i have grown up loving Wells-next-the-Sea, my dad used to take us on holidays there and we stayed in a little cottage which was a short walk to the quay where my brother and I would wander down to ...Read more

A memory of Wells-Next-The-Sea in 1969

Tea Times At Beadnell

My name is Sean Sweet. I have many memories of Beadnell. My Grandparents owned a cottage near the harbour called Sandy Dell and later my parents had a static caravan on the links. Every summer seemed to be hot and sunny and ...Read more

A memory of Beadnell by Rosemary Sweet

Happy Days

I was just reading 'Formative years in Kirn'. Yes they were good. I used to fish off Kirn pier for cat fish for Mrs Drovandi's cat and in exchange she would give me an ice cube. I remember Reggie Brooks and the boats - We used to live in ...Read more

A memory of Kirn in 1950 by Elizabeth Lewis

Captions

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Caption For Saundersfoot, Wisemans Bridge Inn C1965

The large extension at the back of the inn (right) contained seven bedrooms with doors onto the beach.

Caption For Little Haven, 1898

It also had nearby coal-pits, which transported some of their coal from the beach here. Strawberry Hill, above the village, was the site of an Iron Age fort.

Caption For Paignton, North Sands From The Pier 1896

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

Caption For Polzeath, The Beach And Pentire Head 1903

The beach is seen at low tide, with striking clouds and the sun glinting on the surf.

Caption For Wells Next The Sea, The Beach House 1929

This was originally built as stabling for the gentry who would trot up the mile of embankment in their carriages to visit Wells beach.

Caption For Dymchurch, Shop On The Sea Wall C1960

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.

Caption For Southwold, The Beach 1896

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

Caption For St Austell, Duporth Beach 1912

Duporth Beach is just around the corner from Charlestown, and is separated from it by the headland and Polmear Island offshore.

Caption For Cleethorpes, The Beach 1906

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.

Caption For Saundersfoot, The Beach 1933

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.

Caption For Deal, Esplanade 1899

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.

Caption For Saltburn By The Sea, The Ship Inn And Cat Nab C1955

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

Caption For Formby, The Old Lifeboat Cottage C1965

Lying north from Liverpool were continuous golden sandy beaches.

Caption For Fairhaven, Promenade 1913

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.

Caption For Barry Island, Whitmore Bay C1940

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

Caption For New Brighton, The Beach 1887

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.

Caption For Burton Bradstock, Beach 1930

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).

Caption For East Runton, The Beach Entrance 1921

A similar gap to the one at West Runton provides reasonable access to the beach.

Caption For Studland, On The Beach C1950

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.

Caption For Saltburn By The Sea, C1960

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).

Caption For Tywyn, View From Marine Parade 1908

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.

Caption For Par, Beach Huts 1938

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.

Caption For Lepe, The Beach C1955

This is still a sandy beach on the Solent shore; many beaches in Hampshire are now pebble, possibly due to erosion. There are stunning views over the Solent to the Isle of Wight from here.