Huts Collection

Promenade and Castle, Criccieth, Gwynedd, Wales
Promenade and Castle, Criccieth, Llyn Peninsula, Gwynedd, Wales - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Greenhill Gardens and Promenade, Weymouth, Dorset - Painted by William Carruthers Affleck for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Felpham Beach, near Bognor Regis, West Sussex. Date: early 20th century

Nipa Houses near Manila, Philippines
Nipa Stilt Houses (also known as bahay kubo, is an indigenous house used in the Philippines. The native house is constructed out of bamboo tied together)

Bognor Regis / Huts 1905
Bognor Regis, Sussex: the West Beach

WW2 - Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps erect Nissen Huts
WW2 - Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps in France - erecting Nissen Huts in preparation for the arrival of the main body of the army - the caption notes that many men in the pioneer Corps fought in

The Skye crofters Land League Agitation
Sketches in the Isle of Skye: the Crofters Land League. 1.Staffin, from the Bay. 2.Crofters huts in Portree. 3.Women of the crofters. 4. A Skye landlord. 5

R101 airship on mooring mast
The R101 airship attached to a mooring mast, Cardington RAF Base. Date: circa 1930

Fishing Huts at Hastings
Clustered on the shingle of the old town of Hastings, Sussex, are these tall black huts, where the local fishermen dry and mend their nets

Aerial view of the beach and cliffs at Beer, East Devon. Date: 1960s

Lake Superior Chippewa - Apostle Islands, Wisconsin
Lake Superior Chippewa - a historical band of Ojibwe Indians on one of the Apostle Islands, Wisconsin, USA. Date: circa 1924

Beach scene, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Scene of holidaymakers on the Albion Beach at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. A long line of bathing machines on wheels can be seen in the background, waiting to be hauled by a horse to the waters edge

Walton on Naze / Essex
Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex: bathing huts at South Cliff

Felixstowe, the Beach
The beach at Felixstowe, Suffolk, with its row of beach huts

View along the shingle beach at Beer, East Devon. Date: 1960s

Italy - Sorrento - The Hotel Vittoria Date: circa 1910

Maer Beach with Bathing Huts, Bude, Cornwall

Cromer Beach 1930S
Rough seas on the coast of Norfolk at Cromer, England, with its bathing huts on the beach and pier in the background

Mungo Park reaches Kamalia, Africa
The Scottish explorer Mungo Park reaches Kamalia in Mandingo (Mandinka, Mandinko) country, West Africa

Summer Holidays in Holland and Belgium
Cover illustration for Summer Holidays in Holland and Belgium, Cooks World Travel Service. A young woman in a short green dress stands on the beach waving a handkerchief

Crag Path and Beach, Aldeburgh, Suffolk - Painted by artist Charles Howard for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Swedish Church Mission, Mnene, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Group of people assembled after a baptism ceremony. Date: circa 1910

The Beach, Shanklin, Isle of Wight
The Beach, Shanklin, near Sandown, Isle of Wight, England. Showing Bathing Huts & Rowing Boats Date: 1910s

WW1 - Pekin Camp, Camp for Chinese Labour Corps, Mont Kemmel
WW1 - Pekin Camp - Camp for The Chinese Labour Corps on the Western Front. The camp was near The Kemmelberg (also known as Kemmel Hill or Mont Kemmel), Heuvelland, West Flanders, Belgium

St Margarets Hospital, Epping, Essex
Aerial view of St Margarets Hospital, Epping, Essex. Designed by Lewis Vulliamy, the site began life in 1837-8 as the Epping Union workhouse

PAPUA NEW GUINEA 1895
Papua New Guinea: village scene in the north-east of the island Date: 1895

San Sebastian, Spain - The Beach and the Casino - Beach Huts
San Sebastian - The Beach and the Casino - Spain - mobile beach huts. Note the striped swimming costumes hung out to dry on a rudimentary washing line. Date: 1906

An action at Bucquoy, Western Front 1918
The Great Battle on the Western Front: open warfare - an action at Bucquoy, a village on the Arras-Albert road. Stand by British infantry at Bucquoy

People outside beach huts, Cayeux, France
People outside their beach huts at Cayeux-sur-Mer, northern France, on a sunny day. Date: 1929

The Beach at Shanklin, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England Date: circa 1909

Holiday Camp Chalets
Children playing in the sand on the beach in front of a row of yellow chalets at a British holiday camp. Date: 1960s

Frinton / Essex 1907
Frinton, Essex: the beach, with huts

Totland Bay, Isle of Wight - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon, and reproduced as a local view postcard

Whittey Bathing Beach - Black & white Row of bathing huts - very crowded beach. Part of Box 145 Boswell Collection - East Coast. Date: circa 1900

Coastguard Station and Promenade, Cromer, North Norfolk. Now the site of the wonderful RNLI Henry Blogg Museum and Rocket House Cafe (I recommend the dressed Cromer crab salad...). Date: circa 1905

Sudan - Lado - Capital of the Lado Enclave Date: circa 1910s

Stockheath Boys Club
The Nissen huts which form the Stockheath Boys Club and Youth Centre, near Havant, Hampshire, England. Date: 1950s

Bognor Regis - Bathing Huts / Wagons
A wonderful photograph by William Pankhurst Marsh of the horse-drawn bathing Wagons at Bognor. The Royal Pier Hotel can be seen

Papua New Guinea - Elevara Mission and L. M.s Mission
Papua New Guinea - Elevara Village and the L.M.S. Mission. The London Missionary Society was a non-denominational missionary society formed in England in 1795 by evangelical Anglicans

Morocco - Moulay Yacoub, close to Fez
A Sulphur water Spring. Moulay Yacoub, close to Fez, Morocco

Budleigh Salterton, Devon
The seaside resort of Budleigh Salterton in Devon. Holiday makers paddle in the sea and recline in deck chairs

Ethiopia / Call to War
Smoke signals summon the country-men to join their regiments as Ethiopia prepares for war

Seaside Fashions 1878
Princess line dresses: one is short & more practical for walking, the other has a stand up collar, lacing down the central back seam, buttoned panels at the sides & a train

Potosi, Bolivia / Mallet
Looking down towards the mountain surmounted by a cross. At the foot is a road & settlement with houses, huts & churches & men in European dress

Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda, East Africa
Mweya Safari Lodge, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda, East Africa. Date: circa 1954

Kelp makers huts, South Uist, Scotland
Kelp makers huts, South Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Date: late 19th century

U. S. Fighter plane in China
With a Chinese soldier standing guard, repair work on a U.S. fighter plane is carried out somewhere in China. The camouflaged huts in the background act as cover for the American planes Date: 1943

The Shore at Sandown, Isle of Wight Date: circa 1940

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