Need to identify date and location of photo please

[tonepad]

"The white building on the opposite corner became an amusement arcade."

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-uk-kent-deal-beach-street-seafront-amusement-arcade-14634855.html


Tony

[deejayEn]

AJ100 - you're amazing, thank you. Cleverly worked out. I have just looked on Google earth and it matches up. I had no idea that Clara and husband Alf ever holidayed in Deal but he was an ex West Kent Regiment soldier so it sort of makes sense.

tonepad and janan - thanks for the link re the Guinness clocks, I remember the one in Hastings circa 1969. Very interesting.

Thanks to all who answered.

[AJ100]

Glad to be able to help Deejay. Regards the date, I thought 1940's but someone mentioned on the helpful website provided by janan that they had seen a Guinness clock at Deal in the early 60's, rather the worse for wear as if it had been there a long time. That might make the date estimate slightly later, say, 1950's.
During the war the beach at Deal (and everywhere else on the coast) was heavily defended against invasion - tank traps, barbed wire, mines, etc, which weren't cleared until some time after 1945, so the earliest the picture can be is very late 40's.
Kind Regards
AJ

[deejayEn]

The 1950s would make sense as Clara was born in 1881 so that would make her in her 70s which looks about right.

[antiquesam]

This is the the Guiness Clock as I remember it as a child in South Shields

[tonepad]

The Clock in South Shields is the Guinness Time Piece from 1959.
The Clock photographed in Deal is the original Guinness Festival Clock dating from 1951.

Refer to the history of the Guinness Clock again:

http://www.bigginhill-history.co.uk/guinnesstime/history.htm


Tony

[deejayEn]

The one in Deal looks a bit different to the original clock or is it that it's photographed from a different angle?

The comment about the clock at Deal in 1960 on the clocks page leads me to wonder if the photo is later and dates from that date.

[tonepad]

The photo of the clock in Deal shows the back of the item. The clock face is on the opposite side of the construction, viewable from the seafront road.


Tony

[arthurk]

I tried looking for a newspaper report of the clock being in Deal. No direct success, but the local history/nostalgia column of the Morecambe Visitor evidently had a discussion about the one that was there. This led to someone producing a photo of the clock that they said had been taken in Deal in 1952. The photo is reproduced (not very clearly) in the issue of 21 Feb 1996.

Link goes to FindMyPast - item is probably also at British Newspaper Archive:

https://www.rootschat.com/links/01tch/