Sandy Collection

Defenders of the Empire - British Army, Navy and Airforce with the King at the fore. Date: 1924

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

Hampstead Heath 1939
Two women walking together up Sandy Lane, an avenue of huge trees leading to Spaniards Lane, Hampstead Heath, north London, England, during winter snow. Date: January 1939

Carlyon Bay 1970S
The long, unspoilt beach at Carlyon Bay, Cornwall, England, now the site of a huge controversial development of luxury beachside apartments and houses

Rams Island from Sandy Bay, Lough Neagh - a view out to the island in the distance, in the foreground a boat with a lot of people onboard and on the shore a girl and child in arms

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

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

Grit by Wilmot Lunt
A young caddy takes a rest while a golfer tenaciously (and with increasing fury) attempts to get the ball out of a sandy bunker. Date: 1927

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

Mossel Bay poster
Travel poster for Mossel Bay in South Africa, advertising safe bathing, excellent golf, unsurpassed fishing, and illustrated by a sandy beach scene with three ladies in bathing costumes enjoying

Summer Holidays in the British Isles
Cover illustration for Summer Holidays in the British Isles, with Cooks World Travel Service, showing an English seaside resort, with a sandy beach, sailing boats on the sea, a pier and a blue sky

Sandy Row, Belfast - a busy street scene with shop fronts and a lot of people. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast). Date: circa early 1900s

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

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

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

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

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

County Asylum, Newport, Isle of Wight
The Isle of Wight County Lunatic Asylum was opened in 1896 at Sandy Lane, Newport, Isle of Wight. It later became the Isle of Wight County Mental Hospital and then Whitecroft Hospital

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

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

Herm - Channel Islands - Belvoir Bay
Belvoir Bay at Herm (Haerme) - one of the Channel Islands and part of the Parish of St Peter Port in the Bailiwick of Guernsey. Date: circa 1930s

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

Punch and Judy show on the beach, Cornwall
Children watching a Punch and Judy show on the beach, Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s

Mirror dinghies at Newquay, Cornwall. circa 1980s

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

Cornwall, England - The Beach at Crantock. Date: circa 1970s

Sandy Bay, Exmouth, Devon - Painted by artist Frank E Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon

Eliza Comes to Stay by H. V. Esmond. First produced at the Pier Theatre, Brighton, as Sandy and his Eliza on 30th September 1912 and at the Criterion Theatre on 12th December 1913

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

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

Marsden Rocks, Durham
The sandy beach at Marsden Rocks on the Durham coast where we used to go when I was a boy... Date: 1924

Those Superstitions by Bairnsfather
Those Superstitions Private Sandy McNab cheers the assembly by pointing out (with the aid of his pocket almanac) that it is Friday the 13th

The Mawddach Estuary, Wales, where the River Mawddach (Afon Mawddach) meets the sea to form a wide sandy estuary. Date: circa 1920s

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

Summer Holidays in the British Isles, with Cooks
Cover illustration for Summer Holidays in the British Isles, with Cooks World Travel Service, showing a West Country scene with people playing on a sandy beach, fishing nets and seagulls

The Swimming Pool, Havre-des-Pas, Jersey, Channel Islands. Date: 1960s

Swinoujscie, Poland (formerly Swinemunde in Prussia)
Bathers with their marvelous wickerwork seats on the beach at the Baltic Sea Coastal resort of Swinoujscie, Poland (formerly Swinemunde in German Prussia) Date: 1905

Seashore scene with avocets and rare birds
Seashore scene viewed from a hide, with avocets and rare birds. Date: circa 1950s

Elderly couple sitting on the side of a rowing boat
An elderly couple pose for a photograph sitting on the side of a rowing boat on the beach at a busy British seaside resort. Note the lapel cord on the gentlemans fine boater hat! circa 1920s

Ballymastocker Bay, County Donegal, Republic of Ireland
Ballymastocker Bay, Knockalla Coast Road, showing Portsalon in the distance, County Donegal, Republic of Ireland. circa 1970s

Donkeys on the beach at Southport, Cheshire (Merseyside)
Boy with five donkeys on the beach at Southport, Cheshire (Merseyside). Date: 1920

The sandy beach at Benllech Bay, Anglesey, north Wales
Grandparents with small child shelter behind a windbreak on the sandy beach at Benllech Bay, Anglesey, north Wales Date: 1993

Cornwall, England - Seaton Beach, near East Looe. Date: circa 1970s

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

Cornwall, England - Carlyon Bay, near St. Austell. Date: circa 1970s

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