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Oral histories on Tower Beach
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Listen to people reminisce about their own visits to Tower Beach
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Anne Escott
Anne Escott remembers taking her son to the beach in the late 1960s, and recalls when a large boat with a celebrity passenger moored nearby.
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Bridget Cooper
Bridget Cooper reminisces about when she would take her niece to the beach, and how pleasant it was to have the beach just down the road from her home.
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Doris Pearson
For Doris Pearson, the beach was her Southend.
She would visit with her brothers, and play until the tide came in.
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George Escott
George Escott remembers the steps to the beach, which came from the ship ‘Rawalpindi’.
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Harriet Palmer
Harriet Palmer talks about how busy the beach could sometimes be, and her sadness that it closed in the 1970s.
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Lillian Green
Lillian Green remembers the beach before it was before the sand was put down, and it was just a rocky, dangerous foreshore. She recalls a fatal visit for one of her childhood friends.
Years after this event, once the sandy beach had been made, she talks about when she would take her own children to the Tower Beach.
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Maureen Rendall
Maureen Rendell remembers visiting Tower Beach in the late 1940s, collecting shells and old clay pipes, paddling and having a picnic on the wharf.
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Ray Butcher
Ray Butcher recalls visiting the beach in beautiful, sunny weather.
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Ann Mckie
Ann Mckie remembers rushing down the wooden steps to the beach.
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Beatrice Orwell
Beatrice Orwell and her daughter remember visiting the beach, the latter in a union jack swimming costume!
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Mary Ellen Kavanagh
Mary Ellen Kavanagh recalls asking her mother if she could go to the beach when she was eight years old.
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Derek Spicer
Derek Spicer used the cannons on the Wharf as goal posts.
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Ginger Fox
Ginger Fox recalls casting his sins in the water for Yom Kippur.
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Jean Archer
Jean Archer remembers the old woollen swimsuit she would wear.
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Margaret Buck
Margaret Buck would spend the day at the beach.
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Patricia McCarthy
Patricia McCarthy recalls sitting on the cannons on the Wharf.
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Rita Lewis
Rita Lewis remembers winning a sandcastle competition.
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Terry Cowley
Terry Cowley would sit with his sandwiches on the beach.
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The Dress of Tears
There is a Maid of the Royal Tears.
There is a Woman of the Royal Sorrows.
There is a Lady of the Royal Joys . . .
By Mercedes Kemp, WildWorks Writer
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The Princess who collected the World
Once there was a poor princess. Well she wasn’t really poor – she always had more than potatoes on her plate and she always had cloth to cover her pretty skin. . .
By Mercedes Kemp, WildWorks Writer
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