Need to identify date and location of photo please

[deejayEn]

Here is a photo of my great grandmother Clara Sell on a beach, can anyone identify the location and date it.

[japeflakes]

Had a look but...  Not a sandy beach :-(

[arthurk]

Whereabouts did Clara Sell live? It might give a bit of a clue to where she could have visited.

[tonepad]

The Black and White edifice seen in the background is possibly the rear of a Guinness Clock originally at the Festival of Britain. The clocks were then displayed at various resorts and other places in the UK, Ireland and the USA.

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


Tony

[deejayEn]

Clara Sell lived in London, Camden Town. She often holidayed in Canvey Island and Southend but I couldn't identify the photo as either.

The Guiness clock is interesting, was there a list of where they were used?

[HeatherLynne]

I may be wrong, but the shadows indicate that the sun is behind the camera, as is the sea. Therefore this is probably a South facing beach. Hopefully that narrows down or rules out some possibilities 
Heather

[AJ100]

Possibly at the top of King Street, Deal, in Kent. The building on the left looks like Dola Dairies and the building on the corner was a Chemist. The white building on the opposite corner became an amusement arcade.
The black and white structures look temporary and I don't know what they are.
The clothes suggest 1940's.
Regards
AJ

[arthurk]

Possibly at the top of King Street, Deal, in Kent. The building on the left looks like Dola Dairies and the building on the corner was a Chemist. The white building on the opposite corner became an amusement arcade.

I think you're right. I haven't found any old photos to match this one, but on the current street view the buildings to the right look just the same. The ones to the left are almost the same - the dormer window above the dairy is different, but otherwise it seems to fit. Well done 

[janan]

All about the Guiness clocks here
http://www.bigginhill-history.co.uk/guinnesstime/history.htm

There is a comment from someone who remembers seeing one in Deal in the early 1960s