GMC Publications 100 Years of the Seaside - HBSEASIDE
8 ratings
TO EXPLORE MORE
Price: £12.99
Brand: GMC Publications
Description: 100 Years of the Seaside A visual record of the nation s love affair with its beaches: the unique phenomenon that is the British seaside. Contains around 300 photographs from PA Photos huge archives, spanning the whole of the 20th Century. Hand-picked by PA Photos own archivists, most of these images have lain unseen since they were used as news pictures when first taken. Each image has been scanned especially for this book, many from glass plates, ensuring the best possible quality of reproduction. Britain s love of its pleasure beaches gave rise to a peculiar holiday culture - the seaside. Here a usually reserved nation would let its hair down, roll up its trousers, put on a kiss-me-quick hat and laugh at bawdy entertainers. From Victorian sobriety and Edwardian elegance through working-class high spirits to the present day, this book celebrates the place that the seaside holds in all our hearts. 300 pages.
Category: Art and crafts
Merchant: Hobbies
Product ID: 56f22872d68995564414ca9f
GTIN: 9781906672232
Author: Kindle Customer
Rating: 5
Review: Interesting if you like seaside history. Good photos
Author: T. Russell
Rating: 2
Review: This is a disappointing collection - most pictures are no more than snaps, with indifferent composition and dull or prosaic themes. I like books of photographs because I'm interested in the aspects of social history they reveal - I learnt nothing from these. Dull and unimaginative collection.
