Pleasure pier

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

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

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Calling all photographers! Frame the past and celebrate the present with the return of the National Historic Ships UK Photography Competition – and see your work set sail in a national exhibition

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