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Looking a bit bemused the girl with her bucket and spade wonders where the sand has gone - while the girl in front has a little paddle.
Sadly she doesn't know the tide is in as you can see by the landing stage fence at Portrush - her name and the year is unknown.

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Enjoying a day out at Portrush in 1958 we have the Reade family.
Mum - dad who were Ester and Tom Reade, then all smiles in front are Lena, Bessie, Ester and Evelyn.
Did you noticed that most Antrim folk have had their photo taken in nearly the same spot it must have been a favourite place for the street photographer.

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Out for the day at Portrush in 1949 these lads from Antrim are hoping to click!
On the left is Thompson Clarke, Hugh Adams, Jim Esler and Jim Wilson.

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It's Portrush beach in August 1971 and as usual there's plenty of people here.
Now spending a holiday away from Antrim we have Linda Scott with her Flower Power mum Eleanor enjoying themselves while Dad takes the photo.

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With this photograph no one has to guess were it was taken for I think everyone has been photographed in this excat spot.
Of course it's Portrush in 1966 and every child must get a cowboy hat and ball at least that's what Sharon McQuillan along with Norman and Gary Hannan think.
Behind them is Elizabeth McQuillan and sporting a Beehive hairdo is May Hannan.

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Portrush! a name that then in 1959 and even today still fills kids with excitement. Seen here with her back to you is Marie Wallace searching for anything in a rock pool and jumping with excitemnet when you found something. Taking her photograph is her mother Josephine Wallace with a Kodak bellows camera. It used a roll film which you wound on after taking a photo, on the back of the camera was a small round red couloured disc. This let you see the number of the photo, they used to take either 12 or 24 exposures. When you had finished the number of photos on the roll you wound on untill the end. Then you opened the back of the camera and gently lifted out the roll of film then licked the sticky strip and sealed the roll to leave in the chemists to be developed and printed.