Three sisters have recreated their favourite photo of themselves taken on their favourite beach 40 years ago - even down to a packet of crisps they were enjoying at the time.

Tracey, Elaine and Pam were all brought up in Penryn by parents Bob and Betty Martin along with their two other sisters Suzanne and Sheila and brother Barry.

Now all in their early and late sixties, for many years the three sisters wanted to recreate their favourite photo of them on their favourite beach Castle Beach in Falmouth.

The three sisters on Castle Beach, probably in the early 80sThe three sisters on Castle Beach, probably in the early 80s (Image: Supplied)

The original picture, probably taken some time in the early 80s, show the three sisters enjoying a day on the beach.

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.

“Castle Beach has always our family beach,” Tracey Waygood, who works for a construction company in communications and stakeholder management up in Devon, told the Packet.

“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."

The same picture recreated 40 years laterThe same picture recreated 40 years later (Image: Supplied)

The original picture is thought to have been taken 40 years ago but Tracey says if that was the case then 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,” said Tracey. “Pam ended up with that one and she kept saying ‘I really want to recreate this picture’ and we kept saying ‘yeah, yeah’.

Elaine McCartney is the only one who still lives in Penryn and 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 really time to recreate the picture and could she see if she could get some time off work, and they’d do the photograph.

“It was such 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 Skips in one hand and even the brown rug, apart from the bikinis and the bodies it’s pretty much how it was!”

Pam is 70 next year, Tracey has just turned 60 this year and Elaine is 66.

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.