The English Seaside in Victorian and Edwardian Times (Shire Library Book 14)

Photography and the seaside holiday developed together. From the middle of Queen Victoria's reign until the outbreak of the First World War, as holidays became increasingly popular, the number of photographs offered for sale as mementos of a magical week by the coast grew enormously. When ingenious methods of coloring photographs became available in the 1890s, the coloured holiday photographic print, and later the picture postcard, defined the seaside memory. Through a wonderful collection of coloured photographs covering many of England's coastal resorts, linked to a selected written commentaries from Charles Dickens and others, this unique book celebrates the heyday of the seaside holiday. Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Early photography; Bexhill-on-Sea; Blackpool and Lytham; Bognor Regis; Bournemouth; Bridlington; Brighton; Broadstairs; Budleigh Salterton; Burnham-on-Sea; Clacton-on-Sea; Cleethorpes; Clovelly; Cromer; Dawlish; Dover; Eastbourne; Exmouth; Filey; Fleetwood; Folkestone; Great Yarmouth; Hastings; Herne Bay; Hove; Hythe; Ilfracombe; Isle of Man; Isle of Wight; Land's End; Littlehampton; Lowestoft; Lynmouth; Margate; Morecambe; Mortehoe; New Brighton; Newlyn; Newquay; Paignton; Ramsgate; Redcar; St Anne's-on-Sea; St Ives; Scarborough Through a collection of coloured holiday photographs covering all the major - and several minor - resorts around England's coast, linked to selected written commentaries from Charles Dickens and many others, this book celebrates the heyday of the seaside holiday.