Friday, 4 April 2014

Victorian seaside / entertainment

Buying ice cream. This photo was taken in 1884.
Girls paddling at Yarmouth in 1892. Seaside holidays became popular, thanks to the new railways.
This photo shows holidaymakers on the beach at Hythe, in Kent. Can you spot the bathing machines?
Steam-driven roundabout at the fair on Hampstead Heath in London.
Photographs and captions from BBC Primary History: Victorian Britain

Anon.Beach scene, England, 1910s. Postcard. Source

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