Postcards from the past

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

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

Every month, we trawl the nation’s coastline to bring you news of the people, places and exciting goings-on that are worth knowing about

Tidying my loft a few months ago, I came across a box of travel diaries. There’s nothing odd about that – I keep a travel diary for every trip to record my campervan adventures. Only these diaries wer

The 1960s and 70s were the decades many of us changed from using black-and-white film in our cameras to capturing those treasured shots in technicolour. Here, six women reveal the snaps that meant the most…