Harwich Beach

Harwich Beach, including "The Green" and the old "Ship Yard Crane"

01 Esplande Harwich (1904) Chester Vaughan Series FW

02 The Esplanade Harwich (1908) FW

03 The Esplanade, Harwich S.1271 (1909) Kingsway H&D FC

04 2568 Sea Wall Promenade, Harwich. (1931) Nene FW

05 Harwich Beach 12 (1910) FW

06 The Esplanade Harwich. (1907) H.R Tunn & Co Photo FW

Edwardian Boys, probably from the Esplanade school, Harwich take a well earned break from lessons on the beach

07 Harwich Beach 08 (1911) FW

08 E3483, Harwich. (1912) Reality Series FW

09 Esplanade, Harwich (1930) Tuck's FW

10 Promenade & Beach, Harwich (1930) FW

11 49709 Harwich.The Parade (1936) FW

12 #2654 The Sands, Harwich (1930) Photography by H.Coates of Wisbech

Herbert George Coates was born in 1883 at Langtoft Yorkshire, originally a bricklayer by trade, but by 1911 was working as a photographer with his brother-in-law in a partnership as "Ball and Coates", photographers at Queen Street Peterborough.

Around 1920 Herbert moved to Wisbech and began producing high quality real photographic postcards covering much of East Anglia. In particular at least five sets of Harwich and Dovercourt cards were produced in the 1930's some of which are shown here, taken from the "Nene" series of 1930.

13 2656 Promenade and Sands, Harwich (1930) Coates Nene Series FW

14 142024 The Beach. Harwich (1934) Bell's FW

15 79343 The Beach, Harwich (1923) Bell's FW

16 79304 Harwich. (1923) Bell's FW

17 Harwich Beach (1920) FW

18 79342, The Beach, Harwich. (1923) Bell's Publishing H&D FW

19 #23736 Harwich from the Beach (1895) H&D C FW

20 Harwich (1902) Unknown FW

21 Harwich from Beach (1903) Chester Vaughan Series FW

An early view of King's Quay Street, Harwich from the Beach in 1903.

Chester Vaughan, photographic printers, 9 Avenue Road, Acton W, in 1904 Printers Directory.
Similar views from the series can be seen below
Postcode for the nearest location is CO12 3EU click here for Google Earth imagery.