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Memories

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Happy Memories

My grandparents lived in Hornsea and my parents and I would always spend our summer holidays with them. Meeting up with many of my parents friends, we had a big changing tent on the beach, all the adults sat in a massive circle ...Read more

A memory of Hornsea by Vicky Hill

Summer Days At Ovingdean

My mother and I had many happy summer days at Ovingdean in the 1960's. It was easy to catch a bus there from central Brighton, disembarking near St Dunstan's home, walking by underpass beneath the busy main road, then taking ...Read more

A memory of Brighton by albawood

Happy Days At Suntrap School

I went to Suntrap school in Hayling island , I remember Mr Combes my class teacher he was an excellent teacher I enjoyed his class very much . My best friends were Linda Grover and Susan Whitfield. I remember a ...Read more

A memory of Hayling Island by olwynweaver

Those Were The Days.....

That could be me scrambling down the sea wall onto the beach.......I spent my young years, into my early twenties, in our beach hut, on the beach and in the sea. I was born in Seabourne Nursing Home, just in from the cliff, a ...Read more

A memory of Southbourne by Kevin Hunt

Memories Of Kingswood Caravan Site/Saltfleet

I spent many happy years at Kingswood Caravan Site (now Tuxworth Holiday Park). My nanna & granddad (Henry "Sailor" & Nellie Toyne) started using the site in the 1960's until the 1990's, ...Read more

A memory of Saltfleet by toyne.helen53

An Idyllic Childhood

We moved to Pevensey Bay when I was 4. In the Summer, the three of us would go down to the beach, early in the morning, while our parents were still asleep, and dig in the sand, and play. This was our childhood. We didn't ...Read more

A memory of Pevensey Bay by Val Torrance

Happy Days

I remember Bay Hotel extremely well, I used to frequent it with my parents for many years, three times a year, from the age of a toddler up to when I got married in 1970, so we were visiting at the time this photo was taken and I remember it ...Read more

A memory of Rhosneigr by Pam Fitzpatrick

Hayling Island Holidays

The picture of Creek Road in 1965 is how I remember it, my parents used to own a caravan on Elliot's Caravan Park and as a child I remember walking up this road past the shops and the amusement arcades towards the beach ...Read more

A memory of Hayling Island by David Marshall

Staying At Mrs Robbins Guest House 1952

We, the Brown Family from Wembley Middlesex spent two wonderful holidays with Mrs Robbins on the front at Instow. Mrs Robbins had been our neighbour at Lonsdale Avenue Wembley before returning to her native Devon ...Read more

A memory of Instow by Jennifer Keen Nee Brown

Holidays In The 60s

We went to Pevensey Bay every year when I was a child. We stayed in one of a row of 3 houses along Coast rd, which were set right on the beach. They were owned by a man named Mr Piddock. A lot of time was spent at the Bay ...Read more

A memory of Pevensey Bay by cathrynmoon

Captions

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Caption For Wells Next The Sea, The Quay C1955

The sandy beach is about a mile from the quay, but if you are loaded down with picnic hampers and children, there is a small single-track steam train that will take you almost to the water's edge.

Caption For Charmouth, The Beach C1960

Below, a shingle beach with patches of pea-grit provides a spot for rest and relaxation between Raffey's Ledge and the Mouth Rocks, where the River Char enters the sea.

Caption For Minehead, Beach Hotel And Avenue 1923

Inevitably, the wide street of the Promenade soon became a popular place to park the car, look at the beach and eat an ice cream. It has little changed in that function since.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Harbour 1890

The North Wall of the harbour (left centre) was still detached from the beach.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Marine Parade C1955

Just a decade before, fortified lookouts and pillboxes guarded this scene, and a mass of girders and wires bristled above a mined beach.

Caption For Freshfield, Gores Lane C1965

In the early days of private aviation, the company's founder Tom Wilson often serviced the string-and-sealing-wax aircraft flown by the pioneers who used Freshfield beach as a landing strip

Caption For Seatown, Village And Beach 1922

Note the beach-huts on the landslipped cliff.

Caption For Llandudno, The Promenade 1898

Bathing machines can be seen on the beach.

Caption For Morecambe, The Beach 1888

'The sands', says the Frith title, but as you can see, central Morecambe has always had a pebble beach, especially at high tide.

Caption For Hest Bank, Station Road C1955

The railway was so busy a century ago that a footbridge was built so that visitors did not have to wait to cross the line to get to the beach.

Caption For Bridport, East Street 1904

The historic decorative frontage of the former George Inn, which featured in the flight of King Charles II from the Battle of Worcester, carries the names of Beach the dispensing chemist, and predecessor

Caption For Epsom, High Street 1924

Lewes Assizes were popularly referred to as 'The Bungalow Murder', and involved the killing of 37-year-old Emily Kaye at an isolated former customs officer's cottage at The Crumbles, a shingle stretch of beach

Caption For Twickenham, The Ferry 1899

The White Swan public house, first mentioned in 1722, stands on raised ground just beyond the beached punts to the left of centre.

Caption For Deal, From The Pier 1899

Somewhere along this steeply-sloping, shingle beach the armoured legionaries from Julius Caesar's invading army waded ashore in 55BC.

Caption For Deal, From The Pier 1899

Somewhere along this steeply-sloping, shingle beach the armoured legionaries from Julius Caesar's invading army waded ashore in 55BC.

Caption For Worthing, Marine Parade C1955

The Beach Hotel had opened at 4 Marine Parade in 1915, expanding into the whole parade by 1936, when the original red-brick houses that had, in part, comprised The Prince Albert Convalescent Home were

Caption For Purfleet, The Royal Hotel C1950

It incorporates turn-of-the- century markets and 1950s beaches.

Caption For Minehead, The Plume Of Feathers Hotel 1892

Some has been used in houses; along North Road and the Quay, large beach cobbles of the same stone have been split and used for building.

Caption For Bideford, The Quay 1890

When grounded the polacca sat upright; this made it an ideal type of vessel for loading and unloading cargo on beaches at low water.

Caption For Rugby, Caldecott Park C1965

During the Second World War, when railway use was discouraged and seaside beaches were often designated as military zones, Rugby Council organised a 'Holidays at Home' scheme to entertain local

Caption For Margate, Marine Sands C1950

The workmen's outings and beanfeast parties now patronise the seafront public houses and the amusement arcades instead of congregating on the beach.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Harbour 1892

AS YOU JOURNEY eastwards from the sedate and literary little town of Lyme Regis towards the sandy beaches and urban sprawl of Bournemouth, you become aware that this beautiful Dorset coast has been

Caption For Littleham, Cottages 1890

Beyond is Sandy Bay, Littleham's own beach, once a smugglers' cove but now the setting for one of England's largest caravan sites, often echoing with gunfire from the Royal Marines training range

Caption For Margate, Sands 1906

THE golden sands have always been one of Margate's main attractions and have given the resort an advantage over the more common shingle beaches of South-East England.