Cornish sisters recreate photo taken 40 years ago on favourite beach

Three sisters have recreated a photo of themselves taken on their favourite Cornish beach 40 years ago. Tracey Waywood, 60, Elaine McCartney, 66, and Pamela Cook, 70, posed for the original shot at Castle Beach in Falmouth in the 1980s.

They were all brought up in Penryn and enjoyed glorious days in their home county before their lives inevitably took them in different directions. For many years the three sisters wanted to recreate their favourite image from those carefree days.

Following the deaths of their parents, the picture ended up in the possession of Pam who nagged her other two sisters, who now live in Devon, to recreate the photo for posterity. They are even eating crisps in the new photo - just like they did 40 years ago.

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Tracey said: “Castle Beach was always our family beach. We were born and bred in Penryn. Six children, I’m the youngest of the six, and Castle Beach was always a fabulous family day out.

“Mum would make pasties, father who worked in the docks, would come down and join us for a swim. My brother worked across the road at the Royal Duchy Hotel.

“It would not just be our family it would be other cousins, other family friends so it was a real kind of community get together time."

Tracey says 40 years ago both her sisters had just had children, and both looked “flippin’ amazing”.

“The picture was something Pam had wanted to do for many years after the picture came into her possession after mum and dad died,” she added.

Elaine McCartney is the only one who still lives in Penryn. She still loves the beach and swimming. The picture was finally recreated when Pam came down to visit Elaine in September and messaged Tracey to say it was time to recreate the picture.

Tracey added: “It was such a fun day, we went for a couple of swims and then the young lady from Castle Beach Café, Jess, who took the photograph for us and was telling us, looking at the original photograph, how to put our hands.

"There’s a packet of crisps in one hand and even the brown rug, apart from the bikinis and the bodies it’s pretty much how it was.”

Tracey says the photo just brings back lots of good memories as their two other siblings live in Canada. She says the beach is very different with a lot more sand and the wall wasn’t there, it was all just coves and the rocks.

“The rest of the family think we’re crazy,” she said. "Unfortunately, our elder sister Sheila has passed away but the other two live in Canada and think we’re crazy but they’re proud."

Brother Barry was a Cornish tin miner at Wheal Jane for 20 years and then back in the 70s he and his wife and children upped sticks and moved to Canada.

Suzanne also lives in Canada.