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Memories

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The Home Of English Bowls

Beach House Park in Worthing used to be the home of the English Bowling Association and I first went there in 1983 to watch a tournament featuring the legendary David Bryant. It was and still is very popular with the ...Read more

A memory of Worthing in 1983 by David Marshall

The Happiest Days Of My Life.

I have the fondest memories of Caister on Sea. We used to have a week there every year and my sister and I were the only kids in our street that had a holiday every year. Like most people in the East End of ...Read more

A memory of Caister-on-Sea in 1955 by Christopher Bowers

The Donkey Path To The Beach

Does anyone remember the `Donkey Path`? The fairy glen looks vaguely familiar but I was very young and can`t remember details. My aunt and family lived in one of the beautiful houses overlooking the beach in Old ...Read more

A memory of Old Colwyn in 1962 by Erica James

The Copper's Helmet And The Nut Cracker

The ride in the middle of this photograph of the children’s playground on the beach at Southport was known as a ‘copper’s helmet’, and the nearest one on the left was called ‘the nut cracker’. As the ...Read more

A memory of Southport in 1955 by Julia Skinner

The Caravan Shop

I can remember the shop well, both my grandparants had caravans on Mr Wakley's old site (the first gate on the left past the windmill). If the Greenaways shop (that was an old bus parked by the windmill) was shut it meant walking ...Read more

A memory of Selsey by Colin Harmes

The Boat House Porthpean Beach

The tall building at the bottom left hand side of the slipway leading down to the beach was used by a Mr Axford who had two or three wooden rowing boats that he hired out by the hour.  He would sit on a bench ...Read more

A memory of Porthpean in 1951 by Peter Marks

The Blue Lagoon

I can remember waiting at Ashley Down Station for the steam train; towels,swim suits and picnic in big beach bags. The journey was an adventure every time, the smell of the smoke and the old carriages. Pushing your head out ...Read more

A memory of Severn Beach in 1960 by Pam Goodey

The Best Year Of My Life

St, Ives born and bred, my family had lived in a couple of houses upalong before moving to 22 The Digey ( the middle door ) sometime in 1967. I remember having my 6th birthday there.  At the time there was a credit squeeze ...Read more

A memory of St Ives in 1967 by Carolyn Abbott

The Year I Left The Village I Was Born In

I was born in North Seaton Colliery and have very happy memories of my childhood and all the people who were part of my life. I left at 16 to work in Newcastle, the beach was perfect, never have I had such happy times, picking winkles and fishing for dabs.  Brenda Hudson as was.

A memory of North Seaton in 1956 by Brenda Cummings

The White House

My parents bought the White House - a thatched terrace of 6 cottages in the Main Street opposite 'Thatchers' Shop. I believe I only lived in this village for about three years between the age of 7 and 10. The 'White House' had a ...Read more

A memory of Owslebury in 1957 by Martyn Kelham

Captions

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Caption For Treen, Village C1955

Down the hill to the left lie the delights of the Logan Rock Inn, while turning right after the telephone box leads to a beautiful campsite high above Porthcurno beach.

Caption For Weston Super Mare, The Sands 1902

This shows a packed beach with striped umbrellas marking the variety of stalls. These sold everything from teas and soft drinks to shellfish and souvenirs.

Caption For Westgate On Sea, Esplanade Gardens 1899

Two miles west of Margate, Westgate on Sea has two bays; sea walls built along the curves of the bays form two promenades with steps down to the beach, and gardens are laid out for the benefit of visitors

Caption For Bardsea, The Beach 1895

The beach is still a popular area, but now the coast road with its traffic runs in front of the sycamore tree on the left.

Caption For Felixstowe, The Promenade 1904

By this time, the two-mile-long concrete promenade at Felixstowe had been constructed, offering a pleasant walkway between the gardens of the hotels on the left and the shingle beach on the right of this

Caption For Moelfre, The Bay C1955

As the tide recedes, family groups explore the rock pools amongst the heavily-eroded limestone crags, or picnic on the gravel beach.

Caption For Portland, Chesil Beach 1890

Chesil Beach, seen here from the Isle of Portland, is a great ridge of shingle eight miles long, with a lagoon of brackish water between it and the mainland.

Caption For Cadgwith, 1931

Narrow streets, pretty cottages (some of them thatched), fishing boats on the beach, and all in a beautiful setting on the Lizard peninsula, put Cadgwith on the list of places to visit once road transport

Caption For Southend On Sea, The Beach 1898

In fact changing on the beach was officially forbidden until 1948, although, by that time, the regulation had long been ignored.

Caption For Portland, Chesil Beach 1890

Chesil Beach, seen here from the Isle of Portland, is a great ridge of shingle eight miles long, with a lagoon of brackish water between it and the mainland.

Caption For Sea Palling, Golden Beach Restaurant C1950

The Beach Restaurant was a remarkable survivor, but it suffered extensive flood damage.

Caption For Hove, The Lawns 1921

Courtenay Terrace is the only group of houses in Hove with long gardens backing onto the beach.

Caption For East Runton, High Street C1955

The sea is immediately to the right of the caravan park; there are steep steps down to the beach here, as at several other places on the Norfolk coast.

Caption For Filey, North Beach C1960

Fishing nets hang out to dry along the esplanade of Filey's North Beach, while a 'coble', as the old-fashioned fishing boats are called, waits above on the left.

Caption For Poole, The Beach, Rockley Sands C1960

The main camp road ran directly on to this beach.

Caption For Salcombe, From Portlemouth 1928

With only a small beach to boast of it never attracted hordes of holidaymakers. The 19th century church (right) is Holy Trinity.

Caption For Weston Super Mare, Parade 1901

Before this was built, the beach stretched much further inland and sand dunes often formed as far as Regent Street.

Caption For Portland, Chesil Beach C1955

Chesil Beach forms an unbroken line of shingle from Portland to Abbotsbury; its stones are larger to the east than to the west. It has long been a hazard to shipping in bad weather.

Caption For Sandilands, Promenade Looking South C1955

A tremendous visual change here is that there are now no breakwater defences along the beach. The bathing huts are still there, and so is the glorious sand.

Caption For St Margarets Bay, 1891

To the left are the winding steps from the cliff top to the beach.

Caption For Saltburn By The Sea, The Beach 1927

Here we see a splendid prospect of the Promenade and the Zetland Hotel, viewed from the beach.

Caption For Deal, Esplanade 1899

It shows clearly the steps down onto the shingle beach, together with the boats drawn up in time- honoured fashion. Part of the pier can be seen.

Caption For Marske By The Sea, Slip Way And Sands 1938

In 1938, visitors to the beach could park their car at the bottom of the slipway for 6d.

Caption For Saunton, Sands 1920

These, at Saunton, were riddled with tiny beach chalets. Many survived until relatively recent times.