This is a photo I have just got from my mum she didn't know she had it and doesn't have any info surrounding it apart from it being of my g grandparents who lived in St George Bristol Glo until the 1950s then they retired to Clevedon Somerset. Could someone help me age the photo and if possible tell me where they were please?
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Would that be a holiday place then Brenda.
Thanks for the year range mate. I that the tie on the rocks you are talking about?
The clothes that Pat was referring to I was having trouble working out what all that was. Must have been others with them who went swimming do you think? What do you think the striped tie means then?
It is really spooky every time I look at him he reminds me more and more of Dad amd one of his brothers they sure are his grandchildren.
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My grandparents and their 5 boys (my Dad about 10 and second youngest) came out here in 1927 so that holiday would have been after they had emmigrated so it wasn't them with them but there was another younger son and 2 girls so that could be who was swimming and belonging to the clothes.
Thank you for your help Pat and I am hoping you are enjoying your Christmas Day while I am tieing you up here...lol Merry Christmas mate.
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Just for interest sake Pat and Brenda this is their eldest son and his family my Dad is on our far left beside his mother. This was taken at Bondi Beach Sydney Australia not long after they arrived in Australia in 1927.
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Hi, McPanda
My first thought was that it could be Chesil Beach, which runs along the south coast of Dorset from Portland to West Bay - (Portland is near Weymouth, a holiday resort on the Dorset coast) - it would have to be the Weymouth/Portland end of the beach, as that is where it is stoniest.Joan died in July 2020.
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Hi Joan how's your Christmas going mate.
So looking at Pats link she left me it is the same coastline as Brighton but Weymouth end. Have I got that right ... boy my geography knowledge is getting a boost with this...lol
Thanks for the help Joan. Don't you sleep either...lol My UK clock tells me it is nearly 3am over there...you still celebrating? lol
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Hi McP
Got up very early, was in bed at 8 and am now wide awake !! - but will go back to bed soon or will be wrecked tomorrow. Hope you've had a good day.
Weymouth is on the South Coast, like Brighton, but Brighton is in Sussex and Weymouth is in Dorset - and there is Hampshire in between, so it's quite a distance apartJoan died in July 2020.
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Chesil Beach, Dorset - Geological Field Guide, General Introduction by Dr. Ian West.
Joan I Googled a bit and geologically I think the pebbles are bigger Portland end and in the photo at this link it looks like the houses that were behind them in the photo I posted. Or do you think I am only seeing what I want to see...lol
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Yes, the stones are bigger at the Portland and gradually get smaller towards the West Bay end ( strangely, the stones are also graded horizontally as well as vertically, so if you looked at the bottom layer of the beach, the smallest would be at the Portland end) - does that make sense?
I think the beach is abouty twenty miles long, so the scenery does vary quite a bit
Certainly now, the buildings there are not used as houses ( if they are houses, I don't think that this would be Chesil Beach) - they are some holiday chalets and some used by fishermen for storage - especially of lobster pots.
I am not certain, but does look very like Chesil Beach to me... and Portand adjoins Weymouth which was a popular holiday resort, which you could get to by train .
I lived in Weymouth as a child, the train used to reach the station at the north of the town, and then travel through the streets preceded by a man with a flag until it reached the harbour when people would board ferries to France and the Channel Islands. There was then a bridge across Portland harbour which would take passengers on to the Isle of Portland.
It is certainly a very spectacular stretch of coastlineJoan died in July 2020.
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