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With the Victorian rail boom, Britons flocked coas
Our next extract from Bradley’s Railway Guide: A Journey Through Two Centuries of British Railway History 1825-2005 takes us to 1960… and the seaside
The seaside lido offered safe swimming for holidaymakers irrespective of the vagaries of the tide. Kathryn Ferry looks at the architecture of these remarkable creations
Kathryn Ferry delves into 20th-century holiday habits with the help of her postcard collection
Who doesn’t love spending time at the seaside? Over the years, I’ve followed the Agatha Christie trail in Torquay, danced the night away in a Brighton discotheque, marvelled at a water-borne circus in
I DON’T know about you, but my family and I like nothing more than indulging in coffee and cake before heading off on a walk. So, the 18th-century Falcon Hotel – allegedly North Cornwall’s oldest coac
We set off from our Wiltshire home full of anticipation. Our destination was Cumbria, but not as we had known it. Like many, our trips there in the past had tended to be focused on the stunning lakes