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Alexander Park
I was a boarder at Sandrock Hall Convent, on the Ridge in Hastings and later when I had my own children I moved back there from London so that they could enjoy the seaside life while they were young. My son and daughter used to ...Read more
A memory of Hastings in 1980
Caravan Holidays At Oliver Atkinson Fields Down Holmpton Road
Some of my happiest childhood memories are of the holidays the family spent at Withernsea, staying at my Grandmothers caravan. Her name was Clara Peat and my first visit would have ...Read more
A memory of Withernsea in 1956 by
Carlton House Kilburn
Born in 101 Albert Road, moved to Charlton House and lived in flat No.38; the Whitby's, Streets, Watsons, Sullivans, Corrs, Reynolds, Ryans, Butchers, were all my neighbours. I went to St Marys School, ...Read more
A memory of Kilburn in 1956 by
My Time In Charlmont Road.
I started my life in 1936 at Charlmont Road. These houses had no bathroom (we used a tin bath in front of the fire) and outside toilets. I went to Selincourt Road Schools, infants then juniors. I remember during the war ...Read more
A memory of Tooting in 1940 by
Sunday School Outings In The 1950s
Annual Outing to Walton on the Naze from Upshire in Essex. In the early days we travelled by train from Waltham Cross, one train picking children up from stations along the line and taking us all out ...Read more
A memory of Walton-On-The-Naze in 1955 by
Those Long Lost Days In Lamberhurst
It was indeed interesting reading Roger Barden's account of Lamberhurst, but feel he has left out a few salient points. Of course Curtis the newsagents and Avards the bakers with the ever inquisitive Mrs ...Read more
A memory of Lamberhurst in 1960 by
Growing Up In Hadleigh
I was born and brought up in Hadleigh. I was born at home in Beresford Gardens, third of seven children. I went to school at the "new" infants school and the red brick built junior school, lots of memories, mostly ...Read more
A memory of Hadleigh in 1968 by
Happy Days
Not exact on the dates but went to Lowestoft from Norwich on the steam train for our annual day out by the seaside. We saw the Punch & Judy, watched the men fish off the quay and went to the Kensington gardens (?) for a ride on the ...Read more
A memory of Lowestoft in 1954 by
Days Out By The Seaside
We enjoyed summer holidays at Brighton by the sea.
A memory of Brighton in 1958
Youth
I was born in Wood Green in 1940. My earliest recollection is being in a classroom in Lordship Lane with other children and being told I was not supposed to be there.It's possible I had wandered from home,which was on the Tottenham side of ...Read more
A memory of Wood Green in 1947 by
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Tenby is probably the most recognisable seaside town in Wales.
His vision of this new seaside resort was as a retreat for the upper middle classes and the generally better off.
Most of the hotels and holiday apartments were only made possible after portions of the Cromer Hall estate were sold from the 1880s by Benjamin Bond Cabbell with the intention to develop Cromer as a seaside
Brighton made the seaside fashionable for the upper crust, and its wider popularity was settled when the railway made the connection in 1841.
The arrival of the railway in 1877 put Mablethorpe on the seaside holiday map, and the town is mainly Victorian or later.
While the development of the railway network brought an ever-increasing number of day-trippers to the seaside, by the late-Victorian period the railway was also conveying an increasing number of
The arrival of the railway in 1877 put Mablethorpe on the seaside holiday map, and the town is mainly Victorian or later.
By the early 1970s, Worthing, like most English seaside resorts, was having to compete with package holidays abroad.
The sands are still crowded but postwar society has brought a marked change to our seaside resorts.
It was a typical Regency seaside terrace, built of brick, faced in stucco or painted plaster, with an ironwork balcony that had a curved tiled roof like a Chinese pagoda.
During the Second World War, when railway use was discouraged and seaside beaches were often designated as military zones, Rugby Council organised a 'Holidays at Home' scheme to entertain local
The painter J M Whistler visited the fashionable seaside town of Lyme Regis in 1895.
It was especially popular in the days before cheap rail tickets to the seaside became available.
The town is now a shadow of its former glory as a bustling, thriving seaside resort during the Victorian era.
By the 1860s there were Anglican churches in both London and the fashionable seaside resorts, where the use of lighted candles, ornate vestments and incense had been revived.
magnificently between the sea, the long Exe estuary and the wilder countryside of heath and cliff that so defines east Devon, offering wonderful places to explore beyond the confines of the urban seaside
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