This scene dates from the early 1950s judging by the registration on the Standard Vanguard parked at the roadside.
All the attractions of the seaside can be seen, including the candy floss and ices cream pitches and the crowds on the opposite side of the road making their way along the Esplanade.
A speak your weight weighing machine is visible, along with the stall that sold all sorts of knickknacks on the forecourt. An interesting collection of prewar and early postwar cars are in evidence, along with a motorbike and sidecar. A banner advertises Hermann Goering’s bullet proof car, an attraction in years soon after the Second World War, but one asks was it such a crowd puller seven years after the War’s end? The Services are represented by two Marines and a number of sailors enjoying a bit of shore leave from their National Service.
