Places
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Photos
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Maps
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Memories
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A Kids Heaven And Hell
A St Marychurch boy, I lived at Hampton Farm Cottage, St Marychurch... and I can still smell the tar and the salt from old fisher and other boats pulled up on Oddicombe beach... and I can still feel the beautiful ...Read more
A memory of Oddicombe Beach in 1940 by
A Polzeath Lad
I grew up in Polzeath and my two best mates also lived in the area, sadly, both dead now. I remember in the summers the CSSM coming down and staying in New Polzeath, arranging lots of beach games in the afternoons but building a ...Read more
A memory of Polzeath by
A Tiny Hamlet Lost In Time
The year was 1970. Myself and a friend were typical 15 year old youths of the time, well, typical for our type of neighborhood. We had long hair, pierced ears, denim jeans and jackets and owned but a couple of shillings ...Read more
A memory of Trelights in 1970 by
A Walk From Shotgate Baptist Church To Wick Lane
My name is Kevin Mears, I lived in Wickford from my birth in 1958 until I got married in 1980. I shall describe my memories of Wickford as a couple of walks around the Wickford area. My first ...Read more
A memory of Wickford by
A Wartime Reminder Of Italian Prisoners Of War
During the Second World War there was an Italian prisoner of war camp at Penleigh, on the outskirts of Wells in Somerset. The Italian POWS were put out to work on local farms, and one of them was ...Read more
A memory of Wells in 1940 by
A Watchet Boy
I was born in Woodland Road in 1948. The houses were brand new. I used to watch the builders from Dates going up the road to work on the houses at the top. I would stand on next door's doorstep and swear at them as they passed. My ...Read more
A memory of Watchet by
A Year To Remember
How well I remember arriving at Wells-next-the-Sea from Leicester as a new bride. My husband was a former high school pen-friend who was now in England serving in the U.S Air Force, having been in the country from his ...Read more
A memory of Wells-Next-The-Sea in 1951 by
A Young Girls Memories Of Ww1
When my Mother passed away in 1999 I had the unhappy task of clearing out her Warden Controlled little flat. Amongst her possessions I came across an old history project I had done at school in the 1970s for which ...Read more
A memory of Handsworth in 1910
A Bad Memory Of A Lovely Place
I was sent to Hayling Island in 1947, I was about 7 years old and had suffered 2 bouts of Scarlett fever. This had left me in a low state of health & it was thought I would benefit from a spell in a ...Read more
A memory of Hayling Island in 1947 by
A Coastal Walk In North Devon
Last weekend I had a glorious gentle walk from Hunters Inn down the track to Heddons Mouth with my wife Elizabeth and two friends, Valerie and Jim. We parked our car by the National Trust buildings up the lane from ...Read more
A memory of Ilfracombe in 2008 by
Captions
1,131 captions found. Showing results 121 to 144.
Southsea's long shingle beach is crowded with trippers. Not surprisingly, everyone in the picture is fully dressed.
This view shows St Ives' smallest beach bursting at the seams at a time when beach holidays were at the height of their popularity.
Rowing boats offering trips around the bay, boat shops drawn up on the beach and donkey rides were some of the attractions on offer at the Island.
A shingle beach with sandy soil and grass forming the shoreline. The seawall and wooden groynes are in the distance. Beach huts await bathers and picnickers.
There are more bathing tents; by now the St Ives' beaches were being managed as tourist attractions. In the distance can be seen a slipway that was built from The Island to Porthmeor Beach in 1911.
The WB&SSPCo paddler 'Victoria' disembarks trippers on to the steep-shelved beach in Lulworth Cove.
A feature of beaches in the 1950s was the religious gatherings.
The sand dunes and beach make Greatstone the ideal place for families. It has safe bathing and plenty of space for ball games.
The beach is seen at low tide, with dramatic crumbling cliffs towering up behind.
The Beach 1894 Two youngsters are digging for shrimps in the sands of the beach at Arnside, where the River Kent enters Morecambe Bay, while in the background three adults sit on the seawall.
The road from the village ends at this beach, which is known as the Gap.
The road from the village ends at this beach, which is known as the Gap.
Pictured from the beach, the sheer extent of the Grand Hotel becomes plain.
Here we see one of the famous Lincolnshire beaches with its necessary donkeys. No beach is complete without these loveable and cuddlesome beasts, all with their friendly names.
Visitors enjoy the beach at Dymchurch whilst a boat waits to take people on a cruise.
Another view of the beach at Canvey Island shows children busily playing around the many deckchairs. Most of the older holidaymakers are well wrapped up against the cold.
A small wooden bridge across Hayburn Beck leads to the rocky beach, where the stream cascades over large gritstone boulders into a pool on the beach below.
'Yes', said Mother, 'you can play on the beach, but keep your shirt, tie and hat on - and your jacket'.
The shingly and sandy beaches of Bonchurch have always drawn a great number of bathers, and can get crowded on hot summer days.
These colourful beach huts provide a place to change into swimwear or to have a welcome brew-up of tea.
The extensive remains of 12th-century Scarborough Castle crown the headland in the background of this summer time view of Scarborough's South Beach.
Here we see a very crowded Ramsgate beach, with the pier in the distance on the right beyond the massed bathing machines.
Here we see one of the famous Lincolnshire beaches with its necessary donkeys. No beach is complete without these loveable and cuddlesome beasts, all with their friendly names.
Apart from the clothes that these three youngsters are wearing on the beach, little has changed here.
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