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Sublime. Growing Up In High Etherley.
Very similar to Marjories memories. The things we looked forward too were the Church and Chapel trips to the seaside,and the week before the school broke up for Summer when the shows as we called them came in. ...Read more
A memory of High Etherley by
Memories Of Christmas Past
I left Ireland with my Family in 1953 and left part of my heart there. My Grandparents lived in Portavogie right by the seaside, they had a farm and a General store. Granny always had a pot of soup on her stove in the winter, and many ...Read more
A memory of Portavogie by
Catching The Bus From Here To Holders Green
I remember very well the journey from our house in Eastcote to Granmas in Holders Green! We would get the Met from Eastcote Station to Fincley Road then catch the bus to Golders Green High Road. My ...Read more
A memory of Swiss Cottage
Holidays In War Time
My mother’s cousin, Gordon Ross, was the head gardener at Howden Dene in the ‘30s and ‘40’s, when the property was owned by the Straker-Smith family. I was born in 1934. During WW2 when sea-side holidays were difficult, my ...Read more
A memory of Howden Dene by
Ty Croes Thunderbird Guys
As a young REME corporal in 65, stationed at Ty Croes with the RA, we spent many an hour at the Bay Hotel bar. We managed to walk seaside over rocks in the dark to the Hotel successfully most evenings. Spent my 21st ...Read more
A memory of Rhosneigr in 1965 by
Working Days Then Retirement
After attending Newton village school from the age of 5 to 14, I found employment at a place called Tholthorpe where a new airfield was being built. Being 12 miles from my home I had to use a bicycle to get ...Read more
A memory of Newton-on-Ouse in 1989 by
Seaton Sluice Billy Mill
My grandfather John Johnson was born around 1900 and lived all his early life around Billy Mill and Seaton Sluice. He told me that as a boy of about eleven he spent two weeks' holiday with his friend, the lighthouse ...Read more
A memory of Seaton Sluice in 1900 by
Visits To Canvey Island
As a family, we used to visit Canvey quite often during the summers of the late 1950s and early 1960s, and getting onto Canvey from the A13 was quite stressful in those days, you had to turn at the Tarpots and follow ...Read more
A memory of Hadleigh in 1958 by
Rothesay In Wartime
My father, 'John' Johnson, was a chaplain in the Royal Navy from 1943-46. He was based on HMS Cyclops, the submarine depot ship, in Rothesay harbour The family accompanied him to Rothesay and we lived at 2, Desmond Bank for a ...Read more
A memory of Rothesay in 1943 by
Heckmondwike Itself
In winter time the fog and smog could last several days, and never clear. Coming from a seaside town, I found the first winter very depressing, but after 3 years I did not want to leave. The mills were very impressive, as ...Read more
A memory of Heckmondwike in 1961
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Scarborough's sandy beaches are still as popular with northern holidaymakers, who still throng to the seaside town for the donkey rides, candy floss and sticks of rock as they did 50 years ago.
It may be a few months before the end of the First World War but these families are enjoying a trip to the seaside. The boy in the foreground is wearing the fashionable sailor suit of the day.
This pleasant stone-built Victorian seaside resort, just west of Conwy, clusters beneath the steep craggy slopes of the coastal mountains on Conwy Bay.
Its railway and pier, both now gone, prompted ambitious plans to transform the town into a major seaside resort similar in size to Brighton or Bournemouth, but the scheme failed to make the grade.
Judging by the crowd gathering on the beach, it looks as though a seaside concert party will shortly be giving a performance.
Perhaps originally a retreat for the locals, being only a couple of miles from the town of St Austell, Porthpean had become a 'charming seaside resort, much frequented in the summer months as a boating
Some scenes at the seaside never seem to change.
Cliff lifts became a popular solution to the problems of beach access in the later years of the Victorian period, and were used at a number of seaside resorts.
The large building on the right is the Harbour of Refuge - a splendid name for a seaside public house! Children play on the beach below the sea wall.
were accommodated by the locals, who found they could make a bob of two by creating spare rooms, furnished sparsely but sufficiently well to put up 'to let' signs - perhaps this was the start of the seaside
The harp and the clown-like costumes are in fact the tell-tale signs that a Pierrot seaside concert party is touting for customers.
Worthing, yet another fishing village turned seaside resort, developed in fits and starts with little overall coherence but some attractive accents.
East of Gravesend, near where the Thames Estuary meets the North Sea, is Sheerness, a port and seaside resort on the north-west corner of the Isle of Sheppey.
New terraces have been built to accommodate the large numbers of tourists who were flocking to enjoy the delights of a seaside holiday on the Channel coast.
The shops which lined the steep road down to the pier were demolished shortly after for being 'unhygienic and ugly'.They sold all manner of seaside items from postcards, buckets and spades, paddling
At this time, Felixstowe enjoyed popularity as a seaside resort, but the dream of eccentric local landowner Colonel Tomline to transform the town into a major port had not yet materialised - that was to
As with many seaside resorts, one of the popular attractions was a trip in a boat.
The pier was essential for the recreation of Victorian and Edwardian visitors to this part of the seaside. The pier was also the embarkation point for paddle steamers.
When Folkestone was one of the top seaside resorts, people of fashion would stay at the resort and parade in the morning so as to see and be seen.
This end of a narrow valley at the foot of a steep hill has been a popular seaside resort for many years.
With the return of peace, people could again enjoy seaside holidays and once more flocked to the Lancashire resorts.
Its railway and pier, both now gone, prompted ambitious plans to transform the town into a major seaside resort similar in size to Brighton or Bournemouth, but the scheme failed to make the grade.
This area was once part of a quiet seaside village, but by 1960 a parade of shops close to Bay Horse level crossing on the original Preston and Wyre Railway had appeared, and regular motor buses traversed
Seaside and Coastal Sussex: From Bosham to Rye
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