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Spa Esplanade, Herne Bay in 1919 and in 2019. Our family who may be from Ospringe are spending their Summer holidays on the Kentish coast at nearby Herne Bay. The previous images appear to have been taken on the front verandah of this house.
A young man gurns into the camera with a cigarette in the corner of his downturned grin, squinting slightly. He has been comically ‘ringed’ with a life-saver bearing the legend HMS CAPRICE out of Rochester. We are on the Kent Coast, probably the garden of a cottage on Spa Esplanade, Herne Bay. It is August, 1919. The young man holds a folding Kodak camera in his right hand. Is he the brother of the girl with the spyglass?
A young girl looks through a spyglass from the steps of a coastal cottage on Spa Esplanade in Herne Bay, Kent, August 1919. World War I is behind her and a sea of bright possibilities are ahead.
