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Once upon a time, my great-uncle Joe had a beach bungalow at Coulderton near St. Bees, where I spent some very happy hours in the 1960s. Amazingly, it's still there, more-or-less, in 2007, along with a great many others- many of which these days are substantial brick structures, most unlike the quaint mixture of timber bungalows and old railway carriages I remember.
For the past couple of years, I have been gathering information on the bungalows of Lowside Quarter (Coulderton, Nethertown and Braystones, plus a few technically over the border in St. Bees). The ultimate intention is to make all of it (including images of original architects' drawings, and pictures loaned to me by fellow enthusiasts) available on computer for customers at the Whitehaven Record Office and Local Studies Library, but as they don't yet have computers available there for the public to use, I am just putting some basics online:
Images of the bungalows, 2004-6 (you may need broadband for this!)
List of ratepayers etc., 1920s to 1940s
List of planning permission files held at Whitehaven Record Office
Relevant items from local council minutes, 1930s to 1970s
Relevant items from newspapers (a rather random selection)
Newspaper stories of beach/surf rescues
Miscellaneous information, from a variety of sources
Map of the shore area in 1838, from the Tithe Award