Kinda sad when you look upon the real change in boat making types, the first photo had just about all
wooden hull boats. Second photo, just about all exclusive fiberglass hulls. I really love the old
wooden Mahagony hull boats.
I thought I had replied to this thread last night must have got distracted.
It's like in Scotland too, a lot of the newer boats are fibreglass, or concrete, even the smaller fishing boats are being made out of steel. Our little boat was mahogany over an oak frame and it seen service for a good few years with us before we sold it on, we used to see her near Ft. William moored in the sea loch and she always looked in good condition. It is a lot of hard work keeping a mahogany boat in shipshape condition and it was one of my tasks every spring to strip the old varnish off and re-varnish her, still a good amount of work even tho she was only 12ft long
Anyway, yes there are big changes behind the camera, it now looks a bit like "any" beachfront in Europe, Still back then it was a busy place and while not packed out there were a lot of people on the beach then.
The pretty young ladies on the beach back then all had an old matron in grey walking a few steps behind them, it really put a damper on chatting them up - mind you I was only 10 then
I met some American kids that were holidaying there and we went to the local swing park together with my younger brother.
Dad drove down to there, it was about 2000miles or so and we did take detours to go and see other places, I do remember him saying it was over the 2k miles. I can remember stopping at a little roadside pottery in Portugal and the daughter of the potter gave me a little duck she had painted, I still have that little duck to this day