Places
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Photos
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Maps
115 maps found.
Books
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Memories
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Trees Please, We're British
The current fad for destruction of our lovely landscape and English and Welsh countryside has to stop! When I first came to Rockfield many years ago (from the Forest) it was a long way from Monmouth, now the suburbs ...Read more
A memory of Rockfield Park by
Trecco Bay/Coney Beach
My father Jim Blayney, worked for Sir Lesley Joseph and was general manger of Trecco Bay and also Works Manager of Coney Beach. My brother and I had a very happy childhood playing around the fairground, it was in those ...Read more
A memory of Porthcawl in 1965 by
Travelling By Hillmans
When we moved to Snapewood, neither of us could drive, our father started to take us out in a yellow and black Hillman Imp. For people who don't know, an Imp has the engine at the back. It was the first car to have an ...Read more
A memory of Wollaton in 1870 by
Training
I trained racehorses on this beach from 1967 t0 1970. My stable was behind Beadnell House Hotel and I and my family lived just off Swinhoe Road in a cottage which was just behind the Dunes. Happy days. I also spent many a family holiday ...Read more
A memory of Beadnell in 1967 by
Training
I must have been one of the first on the training ship because I thought it was 1954 I was there, but if it is recorded as c1955 who am I to argue! I was there training for the merchant navy for about 12 weeks. I was the camp bugler ...Read more
A memory of Sharpness in 1955 by
Tower Caravan Park Jaywick Sands
I remember going to Tower Caravan Park, Jaywick Sands, every year with my mom, dad, two brothers and sister, from very young till about 15 or 16 years old. I have wonderful memories like going to the Raven Club ...Read more
A memory of Jaywick in 1973 by
Totternhoe Heritage
I used to walk this path every Sunday on my way to Sunday school at the chapel. Such a beautiful chapel, everyone so musically inclined, and afterwards we'd walk back home through the "beeches". This place becomes dearer to me every day, ...Read more
A memory of Totternhoe by
Totternhoe Heritage
I used to walk this path every Sunday on my way to Sunday school at the chapel. Such a beautiful chapel, everyone so musically inclined, and afterwards we'd walk back home through the "beeches". This place becomes dearer to me ...Read more
A memory of Totternhoe by
Top View Stores
I lived at the house on the left - The Chalet. I lived here from 1938 -1959. The eastern end of the house was the village shop and was known as Top View Stores. Records of the house were traced back as early as 1784. When the roof ...Read more
A memory of Ulrome in 1950 by
To School Along The Prom
I lived in Mochdre, and went to the grammar school, 1955-1962. Getting off the bus at the station we would walk along the prom, skipping stones in the sea, or dodging the waves during stormy high tides. Then we would ...Read more
A memory of Colwyn Bay in 1955 by
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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