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Memories
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Miss It Terribly.
Walked these cliffs to Hope Cove a tremendous number of times and watched the wildlife and the waters rise in winter: especially under the wooden bridge between Rock House and Thurlestone and separate the beach from the two. ...Read more
A memory of Thurlestone
The Creamery
Sold the most marvelous pasties. Boat shaped and therefore crimped across the top. We took them down onto Oddicombe beach and enjoyed them for our lunch. Delicious and filling.
A memory of Babbacombe by
Jogging The Memory
Have only just read Mike Beeches memories( where have I been?) My Great Grandfather Stephen Russell lived in the village at Park Gate Cottages, although he was more likely to found in the Horse & Groom! He died in 1968. My ...Read more
A memory of Lamberhurst by
Holidays At "Shoreside", Seaview I.O.W
Our September holidays were spent at "Shoreside", the grand old house in the centre of the photo. Back then it was owned by Colonel and Mrs Farquhar and Colonel Summers, my nan worked for the Farquhars in Wiltshire ...Read more
A memory of Seaview by
Can Anyone Help
My partner was a regular visitor to Talacre in his youth, we came back with our children who have never been this year. My partner has a vague recollectoin of a bunker being on the beach where himself and his friends used to camp, ...Read more
A memory of Talacre by
The Grand Hotel, Cromer
The hotel on the right of this photo is the Grand Hotel situated on the Runton Road and corner of Beach Road. It had its own hard tennis courts across Beach Road - now a Car Park - and a flight of steps leading down to the Prom - replaced by Anglian Water.
A memory of Cromer
Groeswen Village
Although I was born in Merthyr Tydfil our family lived in Brynllwyfan Groeswen, we were known locally as Ball Top House. I remember the freedom my older brother Mervyn and I had in the village and surounding area. My dad Percy ...Read more
A memory of Groeswen by
Fun At Proudfoots
I can remember walking up Sea Lane with my brothers, and visiting the little shop owned by Mrs Proudfoot, in the hope of getting some groceries for our parents (and sweets for us)! Everything about the shop was quaint, from ...Read more
A memory of Old Hunstanton by
My Wonderful Childhood
I was Born in 1968, and resided in a small 2 bedroom house in Maes Morfa, Newport Pembs with my elder brother, sister and mother and father. Little did I know how blessed I was. Although life seemed to be quite difficult in ...Read more
A memory of Parrog by
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Its name means 'mouth of the water', and with its two beaches, natural harbour and 13th-century castle, it has long been popular with visitors.
It must have been very different from this scene of holidaymakers on the beach.
Then building began in earnest as visitors flocked to enjoy its safe, sandy beach and bracing cliff-top walks.
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.
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.
This view looks across the beach with numerous four-wheeled bathing machines that allowed modest entry into the sea for the serious business of sea-bathing.
This view looks across the beach with numerous four-wheeled bathing machines that allowed modest entry into the sea for the serious business of sea-bathing.
This is a view along East Street to the former Market Place, from the Greyhound Hotel (left) which faces the wonderfully elaborate Georgian shop-front of Beach and Company.
Architecturally, the building is more typical of arterial roads, rather than that expected beside the B3157 coast road (bottom right), a mile inland from the western end of the Chesil Beach.
The stout sea wall of today had not been built at the time of this photograph, hence the wide appearance of the beach.
The shingle expanse of Monmouth Beach extends seawards. The factory site became a Royal Air Force base for operating air-sea rescue craft and bombing range launches during the Second World War.
A two-masted sailing ship lies in a mud berth, a washing line post leans on the beach and women in long skirts stand and look towards the harbour.
Bathing machines can be seen on the beach.
Charles and William Warren were boatmen and Robert Warren quarried sand and sold shingle from the beach to the south.
This well-known holiday resort, which has an excellent sandy beach, stands on the west coast of Wales at the mouth of the Mawddach estuary. Both Darwin and Ruskin enjoyed stays here.
The two-mile-long parade overlooks the sandy beach; at the west end an extensive area was laid out as winter gardens.
The two sandy beaches are separated by a headland crowned by a Norman castle, developed by Edward I.
Charles and William Warren were boatmen and Robert Warren quarried sand and sold shingle from the beach to the south.
Beach shops now fill the front garden, and there is a car park in the café garden.
On the beach there was a children's boating pool, and the Pier had a bar and an amusement palace on it. The Pier was built to accommodate the crowds, and was really two piers next to each other.
People do not dress up in their finest clothes for the beach nowadays, but one thing that has not changed is the fact that entertainments then, as now, would have you dipping into your purse.
People do not dress up in their finest clothes for the beach nowadays, but one thing that has not changed is the fact that entertainments then, as now, would have you dipping into your purse.
first bridge here dated from 1855, when local worthy Mrs Cornish allowed its construction at a cost of £26 10s using timbers taken from the sailing vessel Laurel, which had been wrecked on Sidmouth Beach
The picture shows a typical summer's day on east beach, with children building sandcastles or digging for creatures, treasures, or whatever their imagination desires.
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