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Memories

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St Josephs Home Holidays

The children of St. Joseph's Patricroft, Eccles, spent their summer holidays at Freshfield. The girls would stay at "Vaughan House" on Victoria Rd the boys at a priest training college nearby. When the weather was ...Read more

A memory of Freshfield in 1950 by Maureen Malone

St James' Road

I lived at number 14 from 1952 until about 1961. I used to walk to the post office, run by a Mr Green, to get my Mum's cigarettes and sometimes in the summer an homemade ice lolly, a square of lemon ice on a stick. As a brownie ...Read more

A memory of Isle of Grain

St Abbs

My name is Lynda Drew (nee Howarth). I remember St Abbs very fondly. In fact I have very great memories of the best holiday I can remember. My father, Stanley Howarth, was stationed at Coldingham with the RAF for a while during the ...Read more

A memory of Coldingham in 1954 by Lynda Drew

Springhead Terrace

I was born at number 11, and was told I did not open my eyes, so Mrs Tyreman baptized me. She had changed from Methodist to Catholic when she married her husband who was a tailor. When the priest came the next morning and blessed ...Read more

A memory of Loftus in 1930 by Joseph Lavelle

Speedboat

My dad used to drive the speedboat, I used to go for rides as a child, it used to seem so fast. All the holiday makers used to scream, it was great fun. I used to help with the beach ponies and donkeys in the summer holidays. Has anyone got any memories to share?

A memory of Hunstanton in 1967 by Marlene Hyland

Special Days At Polzeath

My family lived at Trelights. My Uncle Reg was a school teacher in London although he was a Trelights boy, when he came home in the summer holidays in his old Austin 6 he would often take us to Polzeath, they were special ...Read more

A memory of Polzeath in 1940 by Jan Cowling

Special Holidays

My grandfather moved to Easington and worked at the pit for two spells. He married a girl from the village and they had 7 children. The family moved to the Midlands in the 1930s. One uncle returned after the war and ran ...Read more

A memory of Easington Colliery by Vivien Williamson

Southend On Sea In The 50's

Southend-on-Sea in the 50’s At the housing estate in Mitcham where we lived they had a tenants association. Every Friday night, two of the committee would go round to the Elm Court flats in Mitcham, where we ...Read more

A memory of Southend-on-Sea by Carole Baldwin

Southend Beach And Boating Lakes

We moved to Southend during 1944 and stayed there for about a year till May 1945. A group of boys who lived in Cheltenham Avenue, off York Road and myself decided to take a boat to the boating lake where ...Read more

A memory of Southend-on-Sea in 1945 by Alan Summers

Captions

1,130 captions found. Showing results 865 to 888.

Caption For Seaton Carew, The Promenade C1955

This earlier picture appears to have an open space where the Silver Dollar was later built. The neat chalets on the sea front have long gone.

Caption For Par, From Trill 1938

Par Beach is seen at low tide with the china clay port of Par in the background.

Caption For Charmouth, The River Char C1960

The beach at Charmouth is a mecca for geologists and fossil hunters, and explanatory walks take place from the heritage centre by the mouth of the Char.

Caption For Pegwell, Coastguard Cottages 1907

This row of diminutive, white cottages provided accommodation for the Coastguards maintaining a watch along this busy stretch of the Kent coastline with its treacherous offshore sandbanks.

Caption For Lavernock, St Mary's Well Bay C1965

'Quick Mum, get the ice cream whilst there's no queue!' The much loved and heavily patronised refreshment kiosk was an obligatory port of call for all families enjoying a day out at the beach.

Caption For Barry Island, Whitmore Bay 1899

This shows a quiet day at Barry beach, with the only sign of life a rowing boat with its landing ramp.

Caption For Saundersfoot, The Glen 1934

This view of the Glen was taken from St Bride's Hill. It is possible to reach the Glen Beach from just below the row of houses.

Caption For Arnside, From The Beach 1894

Set where the old county of Westmorland reaches down to the sea, this bracing small seaside resort and ship-building port enjoys splendid views of the fells at its back.

Caption For Weymouth, Bowleaze Cove C1955

Weymouth's beach has gently sloping sands and is mostly sheltered from the storms and swells of the English Channel, making it suitable for the youngest and most inexperienced of bathers.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Parade 1912

This shows the view from the Cobb hamlet to the original eastern cube-like core of the Bay Private Hotel (centre). Beyond are Madeira Cottage and the Assembly Rooms (centre right).

Caption For Chapel St Leonards, Chapel Point C1955

To the north beyond Ingoldmells, and rather more genteel, is Chapel St Leonards, where my mother used to holiday in the 1930s.

Caption For Seaton Carew, The Sands C1965

Large cargo ships standing off the mouth of the River Tees are still a familiar sight today.

Caption For Heysham, Half Moon Bay C1960

Away from the bright lights and entertainments of its main resorts, Lancashire's coast has many other fine stretches of expansive beach.

Caption For Sully, Swan Bridge Beach C1950

In the 17th century, Swanbridge was one of the numerous small ports dotted around the Glamorgan coast shipping goods to Uphill and Bristol.

Caption For Scarborough, The Bay 1886

A magician entertains a crowd of well dressed Victorian holidaymakers on the beach.

Caption For Swanage, The Promenade C1955

The Walls ice-cream delivery van (bottom left) is beside beach kiosks and a 1910-built shelter, to which a clock was added in 1953, to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

Caption For Porthpean, The Beach C1884

Small fishing boats are drawn up on the beach, a ramp climbs past the fish cellar, and on the extreme left we can just see an arched incline to a limekiln which was in use from at least 1835

Caption For Sandgate, High Street 1903

In the year King Edward VII cut a ribbon to launch London's first electric trams, this small town by the sea still used horses to pull its passenger-laden vehicles.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Sands 1930

This photograph shows Marine Parade and its beach- tents, between Langmoor Gardens (top left) and the 1922-built Bay Private Hotel (centre).

Caption For Penarth, The Beach 1893

Although best known for its pebbled surface, low tide exposes a fair stretch of sand on Penarth Beach.

Caption For Tankerton, The Beach C1955

Between Whitstable and Herne Bay, this modern residential suburb and resort, with its grassy cliff-top promenade and shingle beach, was developed mainly in the years following the Second World War.

Caption For Upwey, Near Stone Bridge 1898

Upwey has been a popular excursion for visitors from Weymouth for most of the history of that resort.

Caption For Sheerness, Esplanade And Beach C1955

Although there is no evidence of habitation here before the 17th century, this windswept north-west corner of the Isle of Sheppey has since enjoyed a measure of success as a seaside resort as a result

Caption For Sheringham, The Beach 1921

The railway reached the fishing hamlet of Sheringham ten years after it reached Cromer, Sheringham's close neighbour.