Future generations will look at these statues and find it hard to believe, but eighty years today ago the beach really was Another Place. This photo of the beach was taken on the sands at the bottom of South Road in the 1930s, in the reign of King George V and when Britain had a National Government.
“It wasnt called the beach back then - it was called the shore,” said Crosby resident Arthur Simkins, 90.
“We used to have a clear beach instead of the iron men and the promenade that we have now. Hundreds of people used to pack out the beaches on a Sunday. We used to go to the Shore back then every week, things were different, there were a lot more shops for a start.
“People were also a lot more modest. They didnt wear costumes or shorts, they just wore normal every day clothes like dresses, pants and shirts - I suppose people were a lot more prude back then.
"My mother and father used to put up a beach tent. People also used to play around the old coast guard cottages as they used to supply you with water to make tea."
Brenda Riddick, 80, said: ”It was lovely to have a flat and clear beach instead of dunes and the iron men. You could tell when it was high tide as there was always ships sailing up and down.
"We used to built sand castles and boats, I suppose we took it for granted in a way. I remember we went down every day after school without our parents.
"It seems strange to imagine but there was never any parental control unlike today.“But that's because there was never any trouble or bad behaviour, we had the park keepers and their word was law!”
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