Higgins History
Higgins Beach has changed dramatically over the years, and to capture the spirit of what was then with our photos of what is now, we have enlisted the services of Scarborough and Higgins Beach Historian Rodney Laughton along with other beach owners and visitors who wish to share their photos. When appropriate, we will then take our camera to the same spot so that you can compare then and now.
This month, we visit ...
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This Month's Photo
Pearl St 1930's Photos Blizzard of '78 Photos Greenwood and Pearl 1930's
Bayview Cottages 1920's Cliff Street 1950's The Oceanside Hotel
Beach Rakers The Ledges 1958 Vesper Street 1930's
The Wreck Ocean Ave 1920's The Breakers
Ashton Street 1940's The Green Bean Ocean Ave Crossing
The Pavilion 1930's Lifeboat Buggy Traffic
Silver Sands 1947 Exercise Time On The Beach Bayview Cottages ~ 1930
Beach Aerial 10 Houghton St Beach Croquet
Stone Cottage Bayview Lineup Higgins Plot Plan Map
Bayview Seawall 1970's Seawitch Circa Taxpayer Monument
Hiawartha ~ 1900 Hot Dog Stand Clubhouse Party 1950's
Water Supply Dew-Drop Inn Log Cutting
Greenwood at Ashton Sandelwood Cottage 1910 Cain Cottage ~1900
Bayview Fire 1944 Family Album - Dougherty Turkey Time
55 Bayview Ave ~1950 Kelly Cottage Pre-WWII Vesper Street Seawall
Low Tide Beach 1934 Sea View Manor Upper Bayview 1920's
Sandy Beach in 1936 Early Beach 1910-1918 12 Houghton Street 1953
Travels of the Nugget Ocean Ave 1906 Bottom of Vesper Early 1950's
Bunch Arrival 1916 White Caps circa 1890 Across Morning Street
Tent City on Vesper The Billoview 1924 Beach Bathers 1950's
Wreck Diving ~1929 Higgins Beach 19?? Sea View Avenue
Bayview Ave Date Unknown Spurwink Bull Captain Al
Corner of Vesper 1956 Beachfront Cottages 1920's Dunegrass Pathways 1920
Carrageen Cottage 1918 Vesper St Seawall 1950 Greenwood at Ashton 1947
Life Saver & Ship Ahoy! Merigold Tea Room Higgins Water Tower
Curley Cottage Ben 1945
