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Long Summer Holidays In The 50's.
My grandparents had bought No 64, Castle Drive (now 156) in the mid 30's. After the war ended they moved down to the Bay until they passed away in the 1980's. Each summer school holidays meant I had 4 glorious ...Read more
A memory of Pevensey Bay in 1956 by
Looking For Jean Laverick Maiden Name
Does anyone know of Jean Laverick and her two sisters (Margaret and Anne) who lived in Holystone, Whitley Bay in the late 1940s? We were the NZ family who lived down the road and we played and went to ...Read more
A memory of Holystone in 1949 by
Looking Westwards, Towards Thorpe Hall Boulevard Junction With The Esplanade.
In 2014, across the road there are tennis courts, and from Google Earth it looks like a thriving Sports Centre. If there were tennis courts on that site in 1963, hardly ...Read more
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Looking Westwards, Towards Thorpe Hall Boulevard Junction With The Esplanade.
In 2014, across the road there are tennis courts, and from Google Earth it looks like a thriving Sports Centre. If there were tennis courts on that site in 1963, hardly ...Read more
A memory of Thorpe Bay by
Lost At Sea
I spent many of my younger years in the 60s at Ladram bay . One particular afternoonI took out a small Dingey with a Dutch friend and we did not arrive back until dark Only to see many lights on the beach we jumped out of the Dingey and ...Read more
A memory of Ladram Bay by
Lost Village Of East Holywell
I was born in East Holywell in 1946 and lived at 24 North Row. By then there were only 2 rows of houses left. We lived with my grandmother, Eva Barnfather, who had been there since the turn of the century. Like ...Read more
A memory of East Holywell in 1950 by
Lovely Stoke Fleming
We stayed at a clifftop house called Mill Meadow. Once we parked the car behind the wooden double gates, there was a pine-tree lined steep hill that led to the house and then to cliffs. I remember that pine smell when we ...Read more
A memory of Stoke Fleming in 1967 by
Lovely Days
Like many others I also spent summer holidays in Birchington with my Grandfather at 96, Park Avenue. I remember that the Icecream Parlour had a fairly large wooden parrot outside. We were friends with the children opposite at 111, ...Read more
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Lovely Memories Of Godstone
My Mum and Gran came to Godstone with me as a baby, we moved from Croydon because of the Second World War. My granddad, Alfred Sreatfield, now dead, had helped to build 13 Salisbury Road. I was christened at St ...Read more
A memory of Godstone in 1944 by
Lower Broughton
I remember so well every Saturday going with my Mum down Lower Broughton Rd to do the shopping. We used to live on Elton Street which was across from Lower Broughton Road at one end. My Grandparents lived on Edward Street. There ...Read more
A memory of Salford in 1961 by
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Aberdour in the Kingdom of Fife, lying between Burntisland and Dalgety Bay, is described in the 1906 Baedeker as 'a favourite little sea-bathing place, with an old castle and the ruins of a Norman church
Lines of wind shelters adorn the beach at the popular Yorkshire coast resort of Filey. Once a fashionable beach accessory, they are seldom seen today, so perhaps it was windier in the Fifties!
The 65-acre Meare was the first stage of the development. All the bays and islands are named in J M Barry style. The Boat House was built in 1911, before the Meare was completed.
Since the 1850s, Dunoon has always been a favourite resort for Glaswegians. The 'doon the watter' trips from the Broomielaw in Glasgow became an institution from then until the Second World War.
The post office, now Swan Cottage, displayed advertisements for Walls ice cream and Bird's Eye frozen foods.
In this remote corner of Essex, close to the Wardroom, the Wallasea Bay Ferry plies its trade.
Founded in the late 1100s, St Mary's was re-roofed in oak at the beginning of the 16th century. Pictured here is the east window, three lights with quatrefoils in roundels above each one.
On the left is the Albion Hotel, where Charles Dickens stayed before he bought the property overlooking the bay on the right of the photograph.
Kingsgate stands at the gap in the cliffs closest to the North Foreland. Its present name dates back to 1683 when Charles II landed here—it was formerly St Bartholomew's Gate.
The manor of Chesham Bois, one of the three manors of Chesham and named after William de Bosco or Boies who held it around 1200, became an independent parish during the Middle Ages.
A celebrated art critic has declared that Edinburgh, Venice and Torquay are the three most beautiful towns in Europe.
Tenby stands on a tongue of limestone rock, ending a green promontory, which is crowned by the ruins of the old castle, and is now pleasantly laid out with walks which serve at once as pier and promenade
In early 20th century guides, walkers were advised to leave the train at Port St Mary and go by way of the Chasms and Spanish Head to Port Erin..
Several coastal churches, including the one at Orford, have been reduced in size by blocking off the eastern end.
Built in 1890 by Sir Thomas Jackson in limestone following the 17th-century collegiate style and blending in well with surrounding buildings.
The south door of the church is visible and the extent of the cemetery easier to see. There are allotments traversed by a path from South View to the fields and Lyddington in the south.
The town hall not only housed the council: there were law courts, facilities for lectures, public meetings and for music festivals.
The town hall not only housed the council: there were law courts, facilities for lectures, public meetings and for music festivals.
The shops along the Causeway, facing the Ouse basin, have changed very little.
The journey to Studland Bay was probably the favourite excursion for tourists from Swanage, who could either get there by walking along the cliff tops or by taking a carriage or charabanc along the
This unidentified ford is possibly located where the A55 expressway now passes the town. The water level seems very low, which is fortunate for the lady wearing the long skirts.
The bridge was designed by the splendidly named Marriott Ogle Tarbotton, the Corporation Engineer, to succeed a medieval stone bridge, itself a successor to the first wooden one built in
The partly-restored, moated, 13th-century castle was once one of the regular residences of the Scottish kings.
The centre part of the house is Georgian.
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