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Growing Up In Filton
I was born in Plymouth of Welsh parents, there was no work in Newport Wales when my Father got out of the Navy, so, we moved to my Grandparents house in 50 Wallscourt Rd Filton, until our house 13 Canberra Grove Filton became ...Read more
A memory of Filton in 1966 by
The Rubble On The Beach
I spent my teenage years in Dunwich, and in retrospect they were wonderful. Freedom, long walks, the beach and sea, cliffs, marshes and the old tank defences from WWII. My best friend Justin North, who lived at 'Marshside' ...Read more
A memory of Dunwich in 1966 by
Coming Back Home
I came back to brierley bonk in 1966, complete with surfboard, after leaving BH in 1961 ,with my parents for Australia, to start a new life ?,well when i got back the place haden't really changed, Except me.I had left behind ...Read more
A memory of Brierley Hill in 1966 by
Lower Hyde Farm 66
I too stayed at Lower Hyde Farm on many occasions as a child and remember arriving on the day of the 19966 World Cup final. We listened to the match on another passenger's transistor radio, standing in the guards's van on the ...Read more
A memory of Shanklin in 1966 by
Porthcawl
My husband and I used to work in the restaurant on the front at Coney Beach, it was a seasonal job. It had a self service, a silver service, and we did functions. Mr Williams and Mr Evans were managers then. We had all meals when we ...Read more
A memory of Porthcawl in 1966 by
To School From Manor Road
Each day my journey either was via the cinder track (there was the old reservoir running alongside and the iron railway bridge stood in those days, the railway was still operating I think or in the stages of being ...Read more
A memory of Woodford Halse in 1966 by
Holidays At Steinish
My lovely memories of holidaying at Steinish and doing baking with my Great-aunt Isabella. The house was a lovely old house near the beach and close to the aerodrome. My great-aunts were named Macarther and I would be grateful ...Read more
A memory of Steinis in 1966 by
Holidays In Hythe
In the 60's, from 1965, I spent holidays (summer and Christmas ) at Langdown Rd with Mrs Spell and at Win and Bert Taylor's. I am French, I was 22 - 23 years old. Richard Spell and Ronnie Taylor were musicians and played ...Read more
A memory of Hythe in 1966 by
Update Of Those Memories Of The 60,S.
And so i became a full teenage worker, ha ha , off to earn all that fabulous money, to buy all i wanted and roll around every where in style, be like the grown ups , drink beer down the pub or up the pub in ...Read more
A memory of Menithwood in 1966 by
Message In A Bottle
My family found a bottle washed up on the beach with a letter from an American boy who had tossed it overboard from a cruise ship off the Irish coast. We wrote to him and he came and stayed with us when his family were on holiday in London. His family were originally from Hungaria.
A memory of Mwnt in 1966 by
Captions
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The beach is one of the nearest to Cardiff and was very popular with parents and young chiuldren and those who thought Penarth too commercialised.
Holiday-makers are scattered across the sands in this evocative picture.
Holiday-makers are scattered across the sands in this evocative picture.
Holidaymakers enjoy themselves on Margate Beach. Note the prams in the centre of the picture, and that virtually everyone seems to be fully clothed and wearing a hat of some sort.
This is now Coral Beach, with made-up roads and caravans that look more like mobile homes.
This is now Coral Beach, with made-up roads and caravans that look more like mobile homes.
This view shows Eype in the days before it was invaded by caravans and too many vehicles, though, as can be seen by the parked cars, some people had already discovered the delights of the beach at Eype
The wide, low-lying, sandy beach here was formed by structural faults.
The fishing off Sandgate was very good, with catches of plaice, codling, conger, and pouting the most common.
Industry and leisure mix in this beach scene. In the foreground are Thames barges with their characteristic lee-boards - a form of offset keel which can be raised in shallow waters.
Courtenay Terrace is the only group of houses which had gardens backing onto the beach.
Mevagissey's steep, winding streets and alleys, cobbled with beach stone, formed a useful maze in which smugglers could escape the attentions of the revenue men.
This road still exists and leads to Porthmeor Beach and to today's St Ives Tate Gallery.
Boats are drawn up on the beach under the walls of the fishing township, and their nets are drying on the rails beside the slipways.
Early visitors faced a long climb to Babbacombe after a day on the beaches, but in the 1920s a cliff railway - still in use today - was built, making the journey much easier.
The Houses of Parliament, rebuilt after a fire in 1834, were completed in 1860. The new buildiing was built into the river over the beach.
Such is the unbroken nature of the West Dorset coastline that artificial harbours had to be constructed at Lyme Regis and West Bay.
Paignton's beaches and coves give a combined sea-frontage of over two miles; this led to the growth of the town's satellite villages of Preston and Goodrington.
Mothers and children paddle in the sandy pools of Towan Beach. On Tolcarne Headland in the background is the Great Western Hotel.
Fishing boats, still all sailing craft at this date, are moored in the shelter of the two piers.
Shaldon remains an unspoiled regency fishing village on the Torquay side of the Teign estuary. A long bridge and foot-ferry lead across to neighbouring Teignmouth.
This is a similar view to 53941 (previous page), taken a little further in to the 20th century; however, not a great deal has changed apart from the fashions.
In 1688, the first recorded curing of red herrings took place here. Here we can see the pebble beach.
Something really fascinates a crowd of very curious beach-goers - not just a landing of fish. We will never know what it was!
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