This post card is for one of my customers Steve from Magna Displays in Nuneaton (see Steve, I do live here in Combe Martin!)I think that this photo must have been taken in the 50's or 60's because that pile of seaweed just behind the yellow boat to the right of the photo is not there any more and the man in the dashing red swim shorts now has a big long grey beard and tatty faded pink shorts but apart from that things are just the same!
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You are so right! I remember that pile of seaweed well! And I think I recognise the man in the dashing red swimmers.
hahaha
Seriously... those mooring posts are long gone, the beach used to have many of them when I was little and they were owned by different fishermen, and each post had a name. My dad told me that one of them was named Pollyanna.
BTW that boat at the shoreline was owned by Jimmy Watkins and the one further out was owned by George Darch.
George Darch I wonder if he is a relation to either Terry or Gerald Darch?
I knew I could rely on you Shammy to fill in the gappy bits of my tale!
Shame the boats are not there now!
I do think you should have stopped scratching for the photo... big grey beard indeed - your disguise doesn't fool us - the moment you said he was dashing around in pink shorts you let that ferret out of the sack.
makes me want to visit.
Another great Blog from 'home' (I love Australia to bits but I still get a bit homesick!) The beach huts are very nostalgic.When I was a child in Margate we had a tent on the sand each summer and all the aunts, cousins, etc gathered there. I suppose that's why the beach huts appeal.
Yes, and the limpets on those rocks are larger.
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