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Reclaiming the course JLP01_08_08782
Whitley Bay Golf Course, Whitley Bay, NORTH TYNESIDE. A view of the restoration of Whitley Bay Golf Course following the completion of opencast mining on the site, showing a man playing golf in the foreground and a crane on a spoil heap in the background.
John Laing and Son Ltd had started opencast mining operations in 1942 to meet wartime needs. The work was expanded by the company after the war and in 1948 opencast coal mining took place at Golf Course Opencast Coal Site in the Monkseaton area of Whitley Bay. By 1953 the mine was closed and the land was reclaimed
© Historic England Archive. John Laing Photographic Collection
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Jubilee Parade TS00009
Ock Street, Abingdon, Oxfordshire. A procession of horse-drawn floats passing along the road into the Market Place for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. The buildings have been decorated with flags and streamers for the occasion. Hand-tinted lantern slide photographed by Henry Taunt in 1897
© Historic England Archive
Archive, Colour, Leisure, Recreation, Victorian
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Blackpool Pleasure Beach AA047934
PLEASURE BEACH, Blackpool, Lancashire. Blackpool Pleasure Beach is one of the most popular holiday attractions in England, and offers rides such as the double ferris wheel seen here. A horse-drawn carriage along the promenade provides a more sedate form of entertainment. Photographed by John Gay. Date range: 1946-1955
© Historic England
