Seaside Gallery

Skegness is So Bracing, BR (ER) poster, 1956

Poster produced for British Railways (BR) Eastern Region (ER), showing a view of the Embassy Ballroom and a funfair, at the Lincolnshire seaside resort of Skegness, with the beach and pier in the background. In the top right-hand corner is shown the famous Jolly Fisherman character, taken from the original GNR poster of 1908 by John Hassall, also entitled Skegness is So Bracing'. The Jolly Fisherman is still used to promote the resort today. Artwork by Kenneth Steel. Printed by R B Macmillan, Derby

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Children on beach at Perranporth, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall. Early 1900s

Three children, a boy in a sailor suit, a girl in a dress and hat and a small child in a sunbonnet are playing on the beach. The boy has a spade and is watching the other two who are paddling and investigating a rockpool with a bucket. Two well dressed women are walking in the distance. The photograph was probably taken by the tail end of Chapel Rock. Photographer: Unknown

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General view of Port Gaverne from the Port Isaac road, St Endellion, Cornwall. 1906

A view downhill to the beach and village with boats hauled up on to the beach. Bathing huts can also be seen. Port Gaverne was once a busy port used to export slate from the nearby Delabole slate quarry. It was also a very active seining port and the port's four pilchard cellars were capable of processing around 1000 tons of fish per week. By 1900 tourism was the village's main industry and it remains popular with holidaymakers today. Photographer: Herbert Hughes

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