Places
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Maps
115 maps found.
Books
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Memories
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Selling Ice Creams On Beach
I remember fondly working during school holidays selling ice creams on Bournemouth beach. I worked for the Corporation and had to wear full length white overalls and push a large yellow barrow filled with ice ...Read more
A memory of Bournemouth in 1959 by
Omg Such Memories!
I have just read an amusing story about the Walls ices girls and how pretty they were - I was one of those girls - I can't quite believe someone has written about us! What fun we had. We all worked in the school holidays ...Read more
A memory of Holland-on-Sea in 1959
Wonderful Childhood
I lived in Crib-y-mor with my grandmother, Emily Roberts, and my mother Patricia Jones (both originally Williamson). I lived opposite Tom Roberts and at an early age developed my own system of visiting everyone. First I ...Read more
A memory of Llanbedrog in 1959 by
Holiday Memories
My parents spent annual holidays at Taberners boarding House in Albert Road, Blackpool Central, when they were young children, and upon hearing of their eventual courtship and engagement many years later, the then owners vowed ...Read more
A memory of Blackpool in 1959
Appendix
my memory of the home were going there twice. The first time from St.Marys hospital in Paddington Green. I was about 9 or 10 and my mum went to see the Almoner and i was taken to Broadstairs I am sure it was St.Marys home. I ...Read more
A memory of Broadstairs in 1959 by
My Childhood In Minehead
My auntie Mary used to run the donkeys on the beach. I spent each school holiday in Minehead Swimming Pool and remember the Juke Box in the cafeteria area very well. When I first moved to Minehead in 1953 I lived in the ...Read more
A memory of Minehead in 1959 by
Haul A Gwynt Criccieth
Some months after I spent a holiday at Bryn Awelon, my aunt and uncle, Mary [Mamie] and John Herbertson, purchased their home, Haul a Gwynt, overlooking Criccieth Castle and Cardigan Bay. It was a delightful home, which ...Read more
A memory of Criccieth in 1959 by
The Beach
I lived with my sister, I was 9 when I first stayed with her. I spent many hours on the beach at Jury's Gap loving the feel of the sand and sun, it was safe in those days. Our dog, Whiskey was with me a lot of the time, although he used ...Read more
A memory of Camber in 1959 by
Kingston Beach
This picture with the distinctive lighthouse is of Kingston Beach, behind it and a little to the left was a church hall where the 5th Shoreham Scouts met. I believe it is demolished now......the church hall that is.
A memory of Shoreham-By-Sea in 1959 by
School Swimming Lessons
I remember well going to the swimming baths once a week during the summer for swimming lessons. We used to walk from Pilton School to Rock Park, or those of us with bikes were allowed to cycle and wait at the park for the ...Read more
A memory of Barnstaple in 1959 by
Captions
1,131 captions found. Showing results 793 to 816.
The passenger launch SS 'Queen Elizabeth' has almost beached to disembark and take on board passengers. A gangplank has been laid to the foreshore.
This landmark at Towan Beach becomes a true island at high tide. A house was built here and connected to the mainland by a suspension footbridge in the early 20th century.
Certainly the ladies prefer this side, which has easy access to the beach from the smart part of town.
Hayle Bay, with its lines of evenly-breaking surf and golden sand, is now a mecca for surfers and tourists, and New Polzeath has grown along the low cliffs on the opposite side of the beach.
By 1918 Margate Council had become envious of Pettman's monopoly of bathing at Cliftonville and made a charge for the bathing rights and the hiring of deckchairs on the popular Cliftonville beaches
With its sheltered sandy beaches, it has become popular with holiday makers.
The village stands on the skyline above the approach to the popular golden sand of Crantock Beach.
A number of people, on the beach by the bathing machines in the distant back ground, enjoy the mirror-calm water.
Their attention has been attracted by a fisherman handling a box on the beach, whcih could have been handed down by the person inside the boat.
Here, looking towards Ingoldmells Point, are the sandy beach and the sand dunes, a view now radically changed by the more recent sea defences with a massive concave-fronted sea wall forming a promenade
The fine white-sailed boat out at sea was a holiday boat, which would take visitors on a little trip around the pier and along the beach.
Away from the tourist area of Beach Road the little village of Hemsby remained unspoilt for many years. Still standing without change is St Mary's.
This early picture of the beach at Ramsgate shows the benches that were precursors of the modern deck chair and a few bathing machines. Ramsgate Sands Station is in the centre of the picture.
The press of humanity on beach and pier proved the boast of the Council: 'Blackpool will not be left behind in any respect'. The greatest attraction at the seaward end was the Indian Pavilion.
Swings and donkey rides were available for the children; note the striped bathing huts and (left) a temporary stage for the concert party, Carlton's Cosy Corner, higher up the beach.
Well placed to attract passing motorists, it also served the visitors who came to enjoy a day on the shore, where a fine sandy beach borders the sea.
Before the advent of cheap, foreign package holidays, Lancashire resorts and beaches continued to draw summer crowds, with donkeys and deckchairs here completing a traditional British scene.
The bowling green is surrounded by beach huts and set amidst suburbia in St Edmund's Road, with Cordy's Regal restaurant, now The Alex, to the right.
Famous for the quality of its beaches, Millport developed as a resort following the construction of the harbour and the introduction of a ferry service to and from Largs.
In this picture smart young men stroll along the beach, and ladies who are brave enough to enter the sea would change into their swimsuits in the bathing tents.
Deckchairs and beach tents were available for hire, and the donkeys are saddled to take different age groups.
It is remarkable that it still survives, albeit moved a hundred yards west to the other side of the Thurrock Yacht Club, where it continues to moulder gently on the beach.
'Hence Rhyl has become noted for the number of children that visit it, and these little ones find an inexhaustible fund of pleasure on its beach'.
A large pleasure boat beaches to unload its passengers, and a bandstand could still attract an audience in this university town cum resort in West Wales.
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