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BBC Homepage Home Endless Summer more from this section Last updated: 17 July 2007 Aber Now Take a look at the slideshow of photographs from an Clubs and Societies exhibition - Endless Summer 1901-1906 - held at Food and Drink In Pictures Museum between 21 July and 1 September 2007. Captions Music are by the museum's curator, Michael Freeman. People BBC Local Sport and Leisure More old photos of ... Student Life Things to do What's on Your Say People & Places Nature & Outdoors Aber Then History Aber Connections Religion & Ethics A shop's century A stroll around the harbour Arts & Culture Aber Prom Music Ceredigion Museum TV & Radio Ghosts on the prom Great Storm of 1938 Local BBC Sites Holiday Memories News House Detective Sport Jackie 'The Monster' Jenkins King's Hall Memories Weather Martin's Memories Travel North Parade 1905-1926 Pendinas Neighbouring Sites Plas Tan y Bwlch North East Wales Prom Days North West Wales RAF at The Belle Vue South East Wales Salford Lads and Girls' club South West Wales Sea Stories The Dinner Scheme Related BBC Sites University photos Wales Ukraine's Unsung Hero Cymru Aberystwyth Beach WW2 stories What's in a name Canolbarth 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 related bbc.co.uk links Michael:"Ceredigion Museum has a number of photograph albums in its collection. One of the most fascinating albums In Pictures remains a bit of a mystery. The black and white images it related www links contains show a family on holiday at the seaside. It is dated 1901 -1906 and most of the images are snap shots, not Ceredigion Museum

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BBC Homepage Wales Home Endless Summer Last updated: 17 July 2007 Take a look at the slideshow of photographs from an exhibition - Endless Summer 1901-1906 - held at Ceredigion Museum between 21 July and 1 September 2007. Captions are by the museum's curator, Michael Freeman.

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South West Wales Aberystwyth Promenade Related BBC Sites Wales 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Cymru Canolbarth Michael:"But who are the people in the photographs and who took the pictures? Most of these photographs were in one photograph album, dated 1900-1906." 20 April 2012 Accessibility help Text only

BBC Homepage Wales Home Endless Summer Last updated: 17 July 2007 Take a look at the slideshow of photographs from an exhibition - Endless Summer 1901-1906 - held at Ceredigion Museum between 21 July and 1 September 2007. Captions are by the museum's curator, Michael Freeman.

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South West Wales Under Aberystwyth Pier Related BBC Sites Wales 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Cymru Canolbarth Michael:"There are 328 photographs which record the activities of a family's annual holiday in Aberystwyth and elsewhere. Whoever took these photographs was obviously very keen on using his or her camera." 20 April 2012 Accessibility help Text only

BBC Homepage Wales Home Endless Summer Last updated: 17 July 2007 Take a look at the slideshow of photographs from an exhibition - Endless Summer 1901-1906 - held at Ceredigion Museum between 21 July and 1 September 2007. Captions are by the museum's curator, Michael Freeman.

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South West Wales Aberystwyth Promenade Related BBC Sites Wales 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Cymru Canolbarth Michael:"There is a vast wealth of useful information in these images. Just seeing the clothes and being able to study the buildings in the background tells us a lot about the development of the town." 20 April 2012 Accessibility help Text only

BBC Homepage Wales Home Endless Summer Last updated: 17 July 2007 Take a look at the slideshow of photographs from an exhibition - Endless Summer 1901-1906 - held at Ceredigion Museum between 21 July and 1 September 2007. Captions are by the museum's curator, Michael Freeman.

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South West Wales Aberystwyth Beach Related BBC Sites Wales 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Cymru Canolbarth Michael:"The album records the activities of the family during their holiday - relaxing and being entertained on the beach and going for walks and carriage trips to , Devil's Bridge, Clarach, Elysian Grove and Pen Dinas." 20 April 2012 Accessibility help Text only

BBC Homepage Wales Home Endless Summer Last updated: 17 July 2007 Take a look at the slideshow of photographs from an exhibition - Endless Summer 1901-1906 - held at Ceredigion Museum between 21 July and 1 September 2007. Captions are by the museum's curator, Michael Freeman.

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South West Wales The Pier Pavilion Related BBC Sites Wales 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Cymru Canolbarth Michael:"The album is also an enormously valuable record of the changes in the town during the first six years of the 20th century. It records the stages of the building of the new Promenade (1901-1904), and is the only known record of the Pleasure Grounds in ." 20 April 2012 Accessibility help Text only

BBC Homepage Wales Home Endless Summer Last updated: 17 July 2007 Take a look at the slideshow of photographs from an exhibition - Endless Summer 1901-1906 - held at Ceredigion Museum between 21 July and 1 September 2007. Captions are by the museum's curator, Michael Freeman.

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South West Wales Aberystwyth Related BBC Sites Wales 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Cymru Canolbarth Michael:"It also provides us with informal photographs of the beach entertainers in action.We don't know who the family was or where they came from. They probably came by train and stayed for a week or two each year and may have stayed with relatives." 20 April 2012 Accessibility help Text only

BBC Homepage Wales Home Endless Summer Last updated: 17 July 2007 Take a look at the slideshow of photographs from an exhibition - Endless Summer 1901-1906 - held at Ceredigion Museum between 21 July and 1 September 2007. Captions are by the museum's curator, Michael Freeman.

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South West Wales Aberystwyth Beach Related BBC Sites Wales 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Cymru Canolbarth Michael:"The album also contains photographs of Ludlow, Llandudno, Barmouth, Worcestershire, and some views of a large town during the Coronation of 1902. All these images are displayed and we hope that people will enjoy getting a glimpse of times past. Besides the photographs there will also be information about the development of seaside holidays in Britain and information about the early development of Aberystwyth as a seaside resort." 20 April 2012 Accessibility help Text only

BBC Homepage Wales Home Endless Summer Last updated: 17 July 2007 Take a look at the slideshow of photographs from an exhibition - Endless Summer 1901-1906 - held at Ceredigion Museum between 21 July and 1 September 2007. Captions are by the museum's curator, Michael Freeman.

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South West Wales Great Darkgate Street, Aberystwyth Related BBC Sites Wales 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Cymru Canolbarth Michael:"This album has been a great find. Other popular resorts in Wales were Swansea (which became less popular as nearby industries destroyed the landscape) and Tenby." 20 April 2012 Accessibility help Text only

BBC Homepage Wales Home Endless Summer Last updated: 17 July 2007 Take a look at the slideshow of photographs from an exhibition - Endless Summer 1901-1906 - held at Ceredigion Museum between 21 July and 1 September 2007. Captions are by the museum's curator, Michael Freeman.

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South West Wales Aberystwyth Beach Related BBC Sites Wales 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Cymru Canolbarth Michael:"Barmouth was a small and very exclusive resort. The north Wales coast town of Llandudno, Rhyl and Colwyn Bay developed after the railway arrived in the 1850s. Similarly Aberystwyth changed as soon as the railway arrived in 1864, three new large hotels and the pier were built and the promenade was doubled in width." 20 April 2012 Accessibility help Text only

BBC Homepage Wales Home Endless Summer Last updated: 17 July 2007 Take a look at the slideshow of photographs from an exhibition - Endless Summer 1901-1906 - held at Ceredigion Museum between 21 July and 1 September 2007. Captions are by the museum's curator, Michael Freeman.

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South West Wales Aberystwyth Promenade Related BBC Sites Wales 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Cymru Canolbarth Michael:"The album also contains a few portraits. If you know who they are, please let us know. Many of the photographs are snap shots of people in action: most other photographs of the time were much more formal. They were taken with a good quarter-plate camera and the pictures are contact prints and every photograph is numbered and dated." 20 April 2012 Accessibility help Text only

BBC Homepage Wales Home Endless Summer Last updated: 17 July 2007 Take a look at the slideshow of photographs from an exhibition - Endless Summer 1901-1906 - held at Ceredigion Museum between 21 July and 1 September 2007. Captions are by the museum's curator, Michael Freeman.

BBC Local More old photos of Aberystwyth... Mid Wales Things to do People & Places Nature & Outdoors History Religion & Ethics Arts & Culture Music TV & Radio

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Related BBC Sites Wales Punch and Judy Show at Aberystwyth Beach Cymru 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Canolbarth Mixchael:"This is a fascinating glimpse of Aberystwyth during the Edwardian Era and should be of great interest to local people as well as visitors. For more information about the exhibition 'The Endless Summer' contact Michael Freeman at Ceredigion Museum 01970 633088 [email protected]"