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Childrens Beach Events Mid 1950s
I can remember organised races and games, promoted by the publishers of 'Sunny Stories' and the Hulton Press comics, which took place on Viking Bay or Louisa? Bay. You needed to have a copy of one of the papers ...Read more
A memory of Broadstairs in 1954 by
19 Wrawby Street Brigg
Mine isn't a personal memory as such but the photograph of Wrawby Street shows on the right handside a fish and chip shop. This double fronted shop is now a travel agents and still has the old bay windows that I have seen on an ...Read more
A memory of Brigg in 1954 by
Bay Horse Inn
I was born in Singapore in 1950, my parents were in the Air Force. We moved to North Summercoates in the late 1950s/early 1960s. My father bought a pub and it was called the Bay Horse Inn, it was run by my mom and dad, ...Read more
A memory of North Somercotes in 1954 by
Power Boats
The wooden clinker built boat, painted white in the lower right of the picture, was one of a pair of fast boats that the late Arthur Shippey and Tom Louis ran from coffee house end steps. They would call loudly ""half hour trips round ...Read more
A memory of Whitby in 1953 by
Teenage Years In Fareham
I lived and worked in Fareham when I moved with my family from Hertfordshire. My father and uncle worked for Fareham District Council. I remember going to the Odeon and Embassy cinemas on many occasions with my fiance. I ...Read more
A memory of Fareham in 1953
Same Family.
My dad was Cyril Henry Sprake, I have memories of travelling to Eype to see my gran, she was Day then. As grandad and uncle Robert died during the war, I am interested in knowing which of the local Sprake families was grandad's. I ...Read more
A memory of Eype's Mouth in 1953 by
The Coronation Of Queen Elizabeth Ii
I was about 3 years old when the present Queen was crowned. Us children went up to the manor house where they held a party outside. I remember someone with a cine camera filming the event. I have ...Read more
A memory of Wootton Fitzpaine in 1953 by
School Days
I was at Bembridge School above Whitecliff Bay from 1953 to 1958. I used to spend many happy hours in the bay and on the top of Culver Down.
A memory of Whitecliff Bay in 1953 by
After The War In Burnt Oak
Being conceived at the end of the war I don't have memories of it of course, but my late brother, my mum and sister had lots. The only street party I remember was the Queen's one in Mostyn Road where we all got a cup ...Read more
A memory of Burnt Oak in 1953 by
The Tiny Port Of Charlestown
I briefly attended Charlestown Infants' school in 1942 as it accepted children a years earlier than Mount Charles Infants (just a mile away) which I lived just a few yards from on Porthpean Road. I was four years ...Read more
A memory of Charlestown in 1953 by
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It was the early use of bathing machines that made Weymouth such a popular resort for sea bathing.The larger machines ran down into the water on rails and consisted of a number of cubicles.
On this sunny early afternoon Di Palma Cream Ices and Johnny's Creamy Ices compete for trade (centre), and people sit in the rose garden formed next to Trinity Church after the iron railings
As was demonstrated in the tragic accident in 2004 which involved the loss of more than 20 Chinese cocklers, Morecambe Bay is a treacherous and deadly crossing point, and requires local specialist knowledge
A lone oarsman makes his way from Sandside towards the west pier, as one of the pleasure boats returns to dis- charge its cargo of happy holidaymakers.
We now embark on a tour of the Moors or Levels, the vast flat lands of central Somerset, where great drains and canalised rivers keep the marshes at bay. We
Between Whitstable and Herne Bay, this modern residential suburb and resort, with its grassy cliff-top promenade and shingle beach, was developed mainly in the years following the Second World War.
The Old House (left) dates from 1678, and it is a prominently sited example of English domestic architecture at its very best.
Square-sterned cobles carrying a single lug sail, but capable of deploying a jib upon their long bowsprits, earn their keep taking trippers on excursions round the bay.
The cottages and buildings along the beach belong to the earliest settlement, while the later Victorian developments are strung out along the higher ground.
We are looking further right again from the scene in No 79875 opposite. A candle manufactory stood on this side of the harbour at Par. Across the bay is the distinctive daymark on Gribbin Head.
This view looks across the Bay to The Island from the well-named Man's Head Rock on the headland of Carrick Du.
One of the boats on the right has the mark PZ, so she may have come from Penzance, a very long journey!
Safe bathing brought thousands of early visitors to Shanklin, as we can see from the profusion of bathing huts and tents. Many of the boats in the foreground would have been for hire.
In the background are two liquid china clay storage tanks.
The old pilchard-curing cellar, or 'palace', beside the shore in the foreground was one of the largest in Cornwall.
Taken from Devil's Point looking across Firestone bay with the Hoe just visible on the far right.
The stone-mullioned windows and sturdy, stone-built construction mark the Bay Horse Inn in the tiny North Yorkshire village of Gayles, north of Richmond, as a building of some antiquity.
From the bottom of Valley Road the camera captures a crowded South Beach scene, and a bay full of sail-driven fishing boats.
The view is of Sandbanks Ferry from Shell Bay looking towards Poole's sandy peninsula. The chain ferry began in 1926, saving 15 miles on the journey to Swanage.
Here we see the Queen of the Resorts in all its glory.
This view was taken looking across White Cross Bay to the northern end of the lake.
Taken from slightly further out over the river from the bridge, this view shows the riverside conservatory/orangery added to the Swan's rear ranges before 1900 - it has subsequently been
Many of the Morecambe Bay boats had names suggesting that they were bigger vessels, such as the 'Queen Mary' in the foreground -but she predated the Cunarder.
The Hepworths shop in photograph No 25657 was taken over by a local bank and given a splendidly bulbous and fruity Flemish-style ground floor soon after 1890.
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