Places
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Memories
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Bucks Mills
I have such wonderful memories of going to Bucks Mills and staying in Kings Cottage with my grandparents and family. I used to go over to see Mamie Braund who lived in the old house on the opposite side of the road from the ...Read more
A memory of Buck's Mills in 1956 by
Bude Breakwater Ship Wrecks
I remember reading about The Welsh Collier Llandaff in about 1898 trying for the safe haven of Summerleaze Beach being wrecked on the reef at the back of The Breakwater a year ago she was saved from a similar fate at in ...Read more
A memory of Bude by
Burmarsh
The place where I grew up with my five brothers and my sister. We used to play cricket on the green but there is no room there now because of all the trees! There was a shop in those days too and a weekly bus into Hythe. We did not sit ...Read more
A memory of Burmarsh by
Burnham On Crouch 1948/1973
Our family moved to Burnham from Wimbledon, Raynes Park, in late 1948, to 34 Lillian Road when I was 4. We came like pioneers of the west in the back of my father's employer's canvas covered Ford truck; mum ...Read more
A memory of Great Stambridge in 1948 by
Busy Holidays At The Coast
On the lead up to the Edinburgh & Glasgow holidays, my friends and I used to prepare by building our own 'bogeys' out of some pram wheels, then on the Saturday`we would arrive at the train station and wait for ...Read more
A memory of Whitley Bay in 1962 by
Cinder Track Racing At High Beech
My home was in Buckhurst Hill but on saturdays in the summertime my Dad would sometimes take my Mum and I to the cinder racing track at High Beech. My memories of those saturday aftrenoons come back as clear and ...Read more
A memory of High Beach in 1930 by
Coppenhall
I lived in Remer St from 1941 to 1966. I remember;- Bonars farm , Mosses farm, Barnetts farm all on Remer St. Groby Rd residents, Percy Barnett, Arthur and Lizzie Badrock. Powells farm. North St Chapel Beeches garage Elliots fish and ...Read more
A memory of Crewe by
Caesar's Camp 1948
Hi Su, I also have happy memories of playing on the hills behind Cheriton when visiting my grandparents. Much more fun than going to the beach. We (my sisters, brother and myself) would cut through the allotments and raid a ...Read more
A memory of Cheriton in 1948 by
Cafe On The Beach And Donkeys
There used to be a cafe on the concrete landing at the beach in the late 1960s, early 1970s. Mum took the donkeys to the beach, up and down the Pumping Station Rd in the 1950s, Wallis's was a very busy place, mum ...Read more
A memory of Cayton Bay by
Caister On Sea, Pleasure Flights Over Great Yarmouth C1955
I am almost certain this is the plane that I had my first flight in. It was during a family holiday and I was around 6 years old at the time. I still remember the experience ...Read more
A memory of Caister-on-Sea in 1958
Captions
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Abbotsbury, situated at the western end of Chesil Beach, is most famous for its swannery, the waters of the Fleet often being turned white with hundreds of birds.
Although Sutton's coaches came up from Clacton on Sea, no doubt the scenery and wildlife is an attractive contrast to candy floss, deckchairs and the beach.
The older method of seine netting involved smaller vessels setting a very large net with which they encircled a large shoal of fish close to the beach.
An inshore lifeboat still operates off the beach at St Anne's, but plans are in hand to build a new boathouse in the near future.
These houses overlook Porthminster Beach and have views of St Ives Bay that are as superb today as they were when this photograph was taken.
The beach also provided a fairground and ice-cream stalls. The jetty is for the use of passengers waiting for a pleasure trip on the rowing boats.
The small coves between, such as the beach below Burton Bradstock, would be used mostly by local fishermen and smugglers.
The stretch of water between and Shaldon's sandy beaches are crammed with boats of every description.
An ice cream and chocolate seller is surrounded by customers on the beach.
This road still exists and leads to Porthmeor Beach and to today's St Ives Tate Gallery.
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.
Note the lines of canvas bathing tents at the head of the beach. The whole scene is overlooked by hotels and boarding houses.
This view brings out the tremendous bustle of Brighton's beaches, dotted with small sailing boats and lines of bathing machines.
However, many visitors love the charm of this fishing village with its unspoiled beach, pleasant inns and occasional antique fairs.
However, many visitors love the charm of this fishing village with its unspoiled beach, pleasant inns and occasional antique fairs.
A vast caravanopolis now covers the cliff tops above Sandy Bay, once a smuggling cove and now Littleham's bathing beach.
Even in wartime the strict dress code for Weymouth beach remained, though many of the soldiers and sailors stationed in the town would seek out lonely coves in the vicinity for a spot of
Charmouth's beach is much loved by fossil hunters.
Exmouth's long beach offers safe bathing, and its gently shelving sands allow easy access for boats. Here we see local mariners taking passengers out for trips along the coast.
The beach is probably Tolcarne.
Donkeys could be hired here for strolls along the sandy beaches.
Cliff falls make it dangerous to walk on the beach.
The impressive sweep of Saltburn's beach with Huntcliffe overlooking it remains as breathtaking a view today as we see it here in 1891.
The beach itself is now home to the Cornwall Coliseum.
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