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Memories
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School Lane & The Grange School
I was born at 60 School lane & would like to know what was on the land prior to our house which I think was built in the early thirties. I attended the Grange School on Bradburns Lane. gray & green uniforms, ...Read more
A memory of Hartford in 1955 by
An Exotic World For Young Canadians
We arrived in Knutsford in September 1955: two bewildered parents and four children, the youngest only 10 months old. My father, a major, had been sent by the Canadian Army to take a year-long course in ...Read more
A memory of Knutsford in 1955 by
The Town Of My Birth
This is one of my endearing images of Margate. I was born at 5 Market Place, which lies just behind the lower white buildings to the centre rear of the photo. It was 1952 and my father was a bus inspector on the East Kent Road ...Read more
A memory of Margate in 1955 by
Yorkshire
Hello all you Yorkshire people, wherever you may now be... Here is a poem I wrote about good old York. Enjoy. Shopping in the Shambles on a snowy Christmas Eve Playing hide and seek in Acomb Wood Watching Andy Pandy by the fire in our ...Read more
A memory of York in 1955 by
A Golden Summer
Firstly--although the date of this picture is not confirmed, the scene it depicts, is exactly how I remember the 'Blue Lagoon' from 1955. This encapcilates exactly--'The Seaside Holiday' in post war Britain. In our families ...Read more
A memory of Severn Beach in 1955 by
Sunday School Outings In The 1950s
Annual Outing to Walton on the Naze from Upshire in Essex. In the early days we travelled by train from Waltham Cross, one train picking children up from stations along the line and taking us all out ...Read more
A memory of Walton-On-The-Naze in 1955 by
Childhood Days 1954 On
Is the pile of sand the remains or the beginning of the Toc-H altar we used to, as children, help build on the beach for sunday service with Toc-H? When the beach huts blew down and we skipped school to help clear up, ...Read more
A memory of Perranporth in 1955
Family Holidays In Bucks Mills In The Mid 1950s To Early 60s
I have read with fond memories the recollections of others on their holidays at Bucks Mills and thought I would share mine. My family and I came down from Nottinghamshire for many ...Read more
A memory of Buck's Mills in 1955 by
Convelescent
I think I might have been here in the 1950s, I was sent here after I left hospital with pneumonia and brochitis. I was sent there for 6 weeks. I remember they made you drink hot milk, yuk. My parents never came to visit, I think ...Read more
A memory of Broadstairs in 1955 by
Childrens Convalescent Home
My memory of Budleigh Salterton is spending a couple of months or so at a childrens convalescent home in the spring/early summer of 1955. I revisited the town a few years back to find that the old childrens ...Read more
A memory of Budleigh Salterton in 1955 by
Captions
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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.
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.
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.
The North Wall of the harbour (left centre) was still detached from the beach.
Just a decade before, fortified lookouts and pillboxes guarded this scene, and a mass of girders and wires bristled above a mined beach.
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
Note the beach-huts on the landslipped cliff.
Bathing machines can be seen on the beach.
'The sands', says the Frith title, but as you can see, central Morecambe has always had a pebble beach, especially at high tide.
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.
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
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
The White Swan public house, first mentioned in 1722, stands on raised ground just beyond the beached punts to the left of centre.
Somewhere along this steeply-sloping, shingle beach the armoured legionaries from Julius Caesar's invading army waded ashore in 55BC.
Somewhere along this steeply-sloping, shingle beach the armoured legionaries from Julius Caesar's invading army waded ashore in 55BC.
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
It incorporates turn-of-the- century markets and 1950s beaches.
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.
When grounded the polacca sat upright; this made it an ideal type of vessel for loading and unloading cargo on beaches at low water.
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
The workmen's outings and beanfeast parties now patronise the seafront public houses and the amusement arcades instead of congregating on the beach.
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
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
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.
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