Filey Gallery

Cricket on Filey beach WSA01_01_G0584

Filey, North Yorkshire. Children playing cricket on the beach, with two bathing tents in the background. Photographed for the Walter Scott postcard company in 1930

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Filey Fun

1913: Children building a sand mound with a moat and adults relaxing by their changing tents on the beach at Filey in Yorkshire. (Photo by Alfred Hind Robinson/A H Robinson/Getty Images)

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The first frog - woman. Frogmen the underwater swimmers used for daring

The first " frog - woman ".
" Frogmen " the underwater swimmers used for daring operations during the war - have trained a " frogwoman " to assist them in their demonstrations of this type of war work at Butlins Holiday Camp at Filey, Yorkshire. She is Gwenda Davies of Fulham, 25 year old ex - WAAF and one - time insurance clerk. The team wear suits similar to those worn by the German swimmers who attempted to blow up the bridge at Nijmegen in 1944.
Photo shows ; The frogwoman with the frogmen. Left to right ; John Kassell, ex - Royal Marine, of Richmond, Yorks, JGI Marriott, ex - Royal Marine of Manchester, Gwenda Davies, A Capindale, ex - Royal Marine of Melton Mowbray and " Chuck " Leyland, ex - Sea Recce Unit of Manchester.
28 June 1946

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