Sand Collection

The Beach - Montrose, Scotland
The Beach - Montrose, Angus, Scotland Date: circa 1910s

Holidaymakers on the sands at Filey, North Yorkshire -- the beach is full of people, either walking or paddling. Date: 1940s

The Strand, Youghal, County Cork, Republic of Ireland. Date: circa 1960s

Morning Ride along the Beach, 1876, by Anton Mauve (1838-188
Anton Mauve (1838-1888). Dutch painter. Morning Ride along the Beach, 1876. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland

London to Penzance train at Teignmouth, Devon
London to Penzance train on the seafront track at Teignmouth, Devon. Date: circa 1960s

View of the Promenade, Filey, North Yorkshire
View of the Promenade at Filey, North Yorkshire, from the cliffs. Date: 1940s

Polzeath Bay, Cornwall
19th century vintage photograph: Polzeath Bay, Cornwall. Polzeath; Cornish: Polsegh, is a small seaside resort village in the civil parish of St Minver in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom

La Rocco Tower, Saint Ouens Bay, Jersey, Channel Islands
Distant view of La Rocco Tower, Saint Ouens Bay, Jersey, Channel Islands, dating back to the late 18th century. Date: circa 1970s

Ballygally Hd. and Strand - a view along the beach, with horse vehicle and two women on the sand, to the headland of Ballygally. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim). Date: circa early 1900s

The Sahara Desert, North west Africa - two camels stride across the sand, accompanied by their Bedouin owner. Date: circa 1915

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

Getting Off at the Seaside
If you want to " Get Off" at the seaside, do it THIS way - not THIS way! A man has more success getting off with the ladies than he does from an irate beach donkey! Date: circa 1910s

Sand Pies by Muriel Dawson
A small blonde girl in a sunsuit and sun bonnet studiously mixes sand in a bucket

Poster for Nazare in Portugal
Poster advertising the seaside town of Nazare in Portugal featuring a blazing sun, yellow sand, a Portuguese lady dressed all in black with a basket on her head, and a boy with a fish

In the Famous Plug Street Wood by Matania
A relief party marching back to the trenches through Ploegstreet Wood (known as Plug Street), south of Ypres

Georges Sand / De Musset
GEORGE SAND with ALFRED DE MUSSET, neither the first nor the last of her many lovers

Juan Les Pins, Darling
Juan Les Pins, Cote D Azur, France: bronzed blonde, sunglasses in hand, reclines in a deckchair to enjoy a lager while she tops up her tan. N.B beach showers

Girl & Beach Ball 1950S
Windswept young lady, wearing shorts & a stripey dolman (batwing) sleeved top with cowl collar leans against a large beach ball to have her photograph taken

Dawlish Low Tide
The beach at Dawlish, Devon, at low tide : the tide has washed up an enormous quantity of seaweed which lies between the sand and the water

Mont Orgueil Castle, Jersey, Channel Islands
View of Mont Orgueil Castle (Gorey Castle), Jersey, Channel Islands, with flowers in the foreground. Date: circa 1970s

Nice, France - Les Ponchettes, le Chateau and Mont Boron
Nice, France - Les Ponchettes (formerly row of small houses of local fishermen, nowadays mostly Galleries), the Chateau and Mont Boron. circa 1930s

WW2 poster, Back Them Up! Showing a British tank attack in the Western Desert. Date: 1940s

Hastings, Sussex - Lightning over the sea from the beach
Hastings, East Sussex - Lightning over the sea from the beach - June 6th, 1904. Date: 1904

Gold with black sands in a gold pan
Gold (Au) is an elemental metal. It occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks or as seen here, as grains in alluvial deposits

Mother Shows You How: on the beach. From Teddy Bear (11 August 1973)

Shire horses and cart on Marazion beach, Cornwall
Two white shire horses pulling a cart along Marazion beach in Cornwall, with St Michaels Mount in the background

In the Sand 1902
A gentleman plots his escape from the sand as his partner and caddies look on

The Chemist 1827
A chemist with his apprentice in his laboratory. A copper alembic is on his left, to the right a sand heat and a furnace is in the middle. Date: 1827

Chesil Beach / Dorset / 1930
Chesil Beach in Dorset

Barmouth, Gwynedd, north west Wales. Date: late 19th century

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

Whitecliff Bay, Bembridge, Isle of Wight, Hampshire. Date: circa 1930s

Owenahincha Strand, Rosscarbery, County Cork, Ireland
Owenahincha Strand, Rosscarbery, County Cork, Republic of Ireland. circa 1970s

Polka Dot Bikini 1950S
An athletic young woman, wearing an itsy bitsy polka dot bikini with spaghetti straps, sinks into the wet sand on a beach

Cornwall, England - Daymer Bay. Date: circa 1970s

Snake species
Marine file snake, Chersydrus granulatus, pelagic sea snake, Pelamys bicolor, Lake Taal snake, Hydrophis cyanocinctus, wart snake, Acrochordus javanicus, tentacle snake, Erpeton tentaculatus

Long Beach, California, USA - The Pike Amusement Park
Long Beach, California, USA (with Warships on the horizon). The Pike in was a seaside amusement park on a pier and famous for its signature attraction the Cyclone Racer (pictured). Date: circa 1930s

Fishermen with boats, Southwold, Suffolk
Fishermen Rogers, Craigie, Craigie and Jed Palmer, on the beach with boats, Southwold, Suffolk, September 1907. 1907

Barry Island, Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales, UK
People on the beach on Barry Island, Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales, UK. Date: circa 1910

Elbow Beach Surf Club, Bermuda Date: late 1950s

Mr Peggotty and Little Emily - David Copperfield, Dickens
Mr Peggotty and Little Emily - David Copperfield, Charles Dickens. Date: circa 1910s

Tropic Bird, by John James Audubon
Tropic Bird, Phaeton Aethereus, by John James Audubon (1785-1851). A colour plate in The Birds of America: From Original Drawings. Date: 1827-1838

Pantaleone / Maurice Sand
Pantaleone/Maurice Sand

Major Metcalfe, Mrs F. Cripps, and Lady Alexandra Metcalfe
Edward Dudley Metcalfe, MVO, MC, (16 January 1887 18 November 1957), known as Fruity Metcalfe, officer in the British Indian Army, a close friend and equerry of Edward VIII

Nidden (Nida), Lithuania - sand dunes
Nidden (Nida), Lithuania, high rolling sand dunes (Parnidis Dune) overlooking the Curonian Lagoon and and Cape Grobstas. circa 1910s

Torre Abbey Sands beach, Torquay, Devon
Aerial view of Torre Abbey Sands beach, Torquay, Devon. Date: circa 1958

British six-pounder gun by G. H. Davis
The British six-pounder gun: explanatory drawings. It was an efficient field and anti-tank gun of high velocity, used for example against Rommels German army in the desert, Second World War

King of the Castle by Muriel Dawson -- a little boy making a sandcastle on the beach. Date: 1934

Portobello Beach, Edinburgh, Scotland Date: circa 1901

Sinai, by Max Schmidt (1818-1901). Date: 1844

Sandfly
Sandflies belong to the family Phlebotominae and are responsible of spreading sandfly fever

Mother and four children on the beach
A delightful photograph of a Mother and her four children spending the day on the beach at Palm Bay, Cliftonville, Margate, Kent

Turkish booby trap near Gaza, Palestine, WW1
A Turkish booby trap, made to look inviting by the presence of food and drink, near Gaza, Palestine during the First World War. Date: September 1917

Poster advertising holidays in Greece, with an idyllic view of the Bay of Athens. 20th century

The Pyramids and Sphinx, Giza, Egypt
The Pyramids and the Sphinx at Giza, Cairo, Egypt

castle Bay Barra, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
Vintage 19th century photograph: Castle Bay Barra, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, from the NE, fishing boats in the harbour, image c.1880 s

Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt
Vintage 19th century photograph: Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt, with a camera in the foreground

Comic postcard, Little girl at the seaside, marooned on a pile of sand. Date: 20th century

Varieties of eel
Common eel, Muraena anguilla, gulper, Saccopharynx flagellum, electric eel, Gymnotus electricus, smallhead, Leptocephalus morrisii, sand eel, Ammodytes tobianus, cusk eel, Ophidium barbatum

The Silver Strand, County Wicklow, Republic of Ireland. circa 1960s

Herring gulls at St Ives, Cornwall
Close-up of herring gulls at St Ives, Cornwall. Date: 1960s

The Beach at Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia Date: circa 1920s

The Beach - Carnoustie, Scotland
The Beach - Carnoustie, Angus, Scotland. Date: circa 1906

Chemistry Appliances
Alembics and distillation appliances for processes such as subliming Volatile Sal Ammoniac (bottom left) : at bottom right is a Sand Bath at Work Date: circa 1790

The Isthmus, Santa Catalina Island, California, USA
People and boats at The Isthmus, Santa Catalina Island, California, USA. Date: 1939

Poster, Select Folkestone
Poster by Lander, Select Folkestone, advertising the town as a holiday destination. Date: 1958

Cub Seals on Ascension Island, South Atlantic, with a large green turtle on a sandy beach, working towards their conservation badges. Date: circa 1980s

Bournemouth, Dorset - East Cliff Date: circa 1906

6th Battalion Royal Tank Corps - manoeuvres in Egypt
6th Battalion Royal Tank Corps - manoeuvres in the Egyptian desert near Cairo from their base at Abbassia. This photograph shows light tanks in action over some rough ground. Date: 1936

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

Southbourne beach. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Athelney in Somerset, the most flooded village in England
Athelney in Somerset, devastated by floods in 1930 showing the only method of travel around the area - in Venetian style, by boat

Maskelyne Magician Sand
JASPER MASKELYNE English stage magician performing a " sand trick" onstage

Tropical Bathing Beach at Lummus Park, Miami Beach, Florida
The Tropical Bathing Beach at Lummus Park, Miami Beach, Florida, USA. Date: 1937

World War II France and Britain commemorate D-Day
Vintage World War II photograph - France and Britain commemorate the first anniversay of the D-Day landings on the beach at Arromanches, Normandy

Boy and girl on the beach, Saltburn, North Yorkshire
Boy (Albert Auerbach) and girl (Violet Auerbach) on the beach at Saltburn-by-the-Sea, North Yorkshire, August 1906. The pier can be seen on the left. Date: 1906

Mellneraggen beach, Memel, Lithuania
Mellneraggen beach, Memel (now Klaipeda), Lithuania, with bathers. Date: circa 1930s

Shanzu Beach, Mombasa, Kenya, East Africa. Date: circa 1940

Mirror dinghies at Newquay, Cornwall. circa 1980s

American battleships at Kiel, Germany. From left to right, they are USS New York (BB34), USS Wyoming (BB32) and USS Arkansas (BB33). Date: circa 1930s

Uruguay - Montevideo - Playa Pocitos Date: circa early 1940s

High tide at Southport, Merseyside - Ice Cream seller
High tide at Southport, Merseyside. An ice cream seller in the foreground doesn t appear to be doing the swiftest business, possible due to the temperature

Imperial Camel Corps Brigade, Beersheba, WW1
The Imperial Camel Corps Brigade outside Beersheba (Bir As-Saba) during the First World War. Date: November 1917

Railway Poster - Coastal Belgium
The Belgian Coast - Railway Poster with a map showing connecting routes along the English Channel Coast

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