The essence of childhood beach holidays for many is sandcastles.
Among these pictures of intricate displays built on Weymouth’s golden sands is an impressive cathedral.
This beautiful sand sculpture was the work of Jack Hayward, who was known as Skivvy Hayward.
Despite only having one eye, Skivvy Hayward had fantastic attention to detail and did all his carving with a kitchen knife.
The cathedral was made out of an oblong of sand and all the carving was done with a kitchen knife.
Roy Groves remembers helping Jack build castles on the sands as a boy, using an ARP pump and seawater to keep the sand moist.
Roy sent in a photograph of a model that he helped Jack build in around 1947 when he would have been about 14 years old. He said: “I used to down to the beach in my dinner times from school and afterwards to help out. Jack was always building churches and cathedrals.
An early sand model on Weymouth Beach Picture: Terence Gale collection
“He was quite a character. I remember he had built a model of Salisbury Cathedral, which I think was his favourite. Some American soldiers were saying that the model had a wooden frame, they didn’t believe it was just out of sand.
A sand model to raise money for wounded servicemen Picture: Terence Gale collection
“Jack was quite upset because there were quite a few holidaymakers around so he got his knife and chopped the spire off to prove there was no frame.
“He did very well from that because they had to put their money where their mouths were.
"Everyone was cheering and the soldiers were very apologetic.
"He wanted to keep his name, it was surprising to see how many people believed he did use a frame. He wasn’t having any of that.”
The Last Supper, a sand sculpture by Fred Darrington
Following in the footsteps of Jack Hayward as a known sand sculptor on Weymouth beach was Fred Darrington, who began sculpting in the 1920s.
A Muppets sculpture by Fred Darrington
His grandson, Mark Anderson carried on the sand modelling tradition.
Sea horses by Fred Darrington
A Fred Darrington sand sculpture Picture: Terence Gale collection
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