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no.A399

Biggar Bank Walney Island

1930s

View north to Round House as A390 but with printed postcard text. Man on grass bank above shingle now looking at camera. Others sitting in deck chairs and on bench. Uniformed attendant by tall stack of deck chairs for hire – looks to be a teenager. Pavillion advertising “Boiling Water Supplied Here”, and adverts advert for Pavilion Café Children’s Corner. Single decker bus on road but overhead tram lines still visible.

https://www.sankeyphotoarchive.uk/collection/view/?id=1456

no.A399

Biggar Bank Walney Island

1930s

View north to Round House as A390 but with printed postcard text. Man on grass bank above shingle now looking at camera. Others sitting in deck chairs and on bench. Uniformed attendant by tall stack of deck chairs for hire – looks to be a teenager. Pavillion advertising “Boiling Water Supplied Here”, and adverts advert for Pavilion Café Children’s Corner. Single decker bus on road but overhead tram lines still visible.

Location: Walney Island, Barrow-in-Furness Cumbria Archives Reference: BDB 86/1/3199
Sankey Number: A399

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Album Number: Album A 1-355

Page Number: 29

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Sankey Number Image Title Location Image Taken Description
394    The Bathing Huts, Walney Island A number of people on a pebble beach in front of a row of bathing huts.
395 The Bathing Huts, Walney Island Large number of people on a pebble beach in front of a row of bathing huts.
396    The Bathing Huts, Walney Island A line of bathing huts at the top of a pebble beach. People on the beach and by huts.
397    The Beach, Walney Island People on a beach looking out to sea. Some paddling, four swimming, a canoe just visible on left.
398    The Bathing Huts, Walney Island Line of bathing huts at the top of pebble beach. Groyne on left, many people on beach and Groyne.
399    Biggar Bank, Walney Island. People on the green and beach at Biggar Bank. Three people in foreground sat in deck chairs. Pavilion in background.
400 North Beach, Walney Island View of a pebble beach with a groyne running down into the sea. Many people on the beach and groyne.
401    NA NA
402    NA NA
403    NA NA
404    NA NA
405    NA NA
406    NA NA
407    NA NA
408    NA NA
409    South Row, Roose A long row of stone built terraced houses and street recede into the distance. Children playing on street corner.