St Mary's Bay, The Beach c.1955
Photo ref:
S538004
Photo ref:
S538004
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This miniature mainline railway opened in July 1927, running between Hythe and New Romney. A year later it was extended to Dungeness. Seen here is Hurricane, a locomotive one-third of the size of normal engines.
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A Selection of Memories from St Mary's Bay
For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from St Mary's Bay
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I remember St Mary's bay my husband and I had our honeymoon there 1956, My husband Cedric Baldwin
His Gran had a cottage there and the families used to go for regular trips, the Shop on the corner used to belong
to his friend he always used to talk about what they used to do and we took our daughter and son there before we
came to Australia. I know him and his family always loved it there we used to ...see more
My sister and I were in Myton Hamlet Children's Home which was in Warwick/Warwickshire. We would come by Lloyds Coaches on a Saturday, this was the start of the holiday. It took us all day to get there, no motorways then. We often went on the Dimchurch railway. I also remember the shop on the corner of the holiday camp. We had many nice holidays at the camp. The person in charge of the ...see more
Would anyone remember the above ? My Great Great Grandfather bought a plot of land in Jefferson Lane and obtained a Southern Railway carriage which he made into a holiday home calling it Belvedere after the place where the family lived. He also built a tiny bungalow on the same plot called Little Belvedere. After the deaths of all my family the carriage was given to one of the Railway Trust ...see more
When I was around 11/12 years old I stayed at this holiday camp several times. We all came down from London and had a great time playing war games with the local kids. I remember my friends and I buying children size army hats from the corner store. Our teacher saw us with our hats on and asked us to line up like soldiers and walk in a straight line. We often had a ride on the little train. We ...see more
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