How did people use to spend their holidays?
Patience Mertz
2025-05-03 05:53:07
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Growing up, the holidays used to center around spending time with family and friends. That was the highlight of the holidays then; there were spending here and there. Nobody asked for absurd gifts or expensive chocolates. It was more about having family around and the little pleasures of life. One of those big aunties would buy clothes for children in the family, and someone else would drop it off with the tailor and pay. Christmas day, y’all are ready to rock town. Trust Yoruba people and the Owambe energy naa! The evolution went from Mr Biggs to Sweet Sensation and on the list goes.
Randall Senger
2025-05-03 05:47:19
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Hundreds of years ago most children did not go to school. Instead they stayed at home, helping their families with farming and looking after animals. August and September were busy months as this was when everyone working on the land would be harvesting the crops. Children and adults worked together, making the most of longer daylight hours to ensure enough food was collected for winter. During the medieval period, most people were poor and only the rich had anything that resembled a ‘holiday’ of the kind we imagine – extended time spent travelling around, visiting friends, taking part in sporting activities and entertainment. Everyone had ‘holy days’ though. The Christian Church held many holy days and feast days throughout the year. No one was allowed to work on holy days. Instead, people came together to pray and to share a meal in honour of a saint or to celebrate a festival such as Easter or Harvest. These days were like mini-holidays; people looked forward to them as a break from the heavy ordinary work of every day.
Dorris Harris
2025-05-03 03:23:01
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The middle classes were the first to take advantage of the marvellous new railway network spreading like a spider’s web across Britain in the 1840s, whisking them from the cities to seaside towns around the coast. Genteel resorts which had previously attracted the well-to-do, like Weymouth, Scarborough and Brighton, now saw an influx of new visitors while resorts such as Blackpool and Llandudno, Cromer and Minehead all grew up in response to the growing demand for a jolly day out in the healthy sea air. It wasn’t long before the working classes too were jumping on trains and joining their more affluent contemporaries at the beach. Sunday, being the Sabbath, had always been a holiday, and by the middle of the nineteenth century most working people could also expect to get at least Saturday afternoon off. Wakes weeks are often considered to be the origin of the British Summer Holiday. They began as religious festivals celebrating the feast day of the saint to whom the local church was dedicated. Once the railway arrived, thousands of working-class families took advantage of the wakes week holiday to spend the day at the seaside. During the last decades of the nineteenth century, the seaside day trip did gradually become a week away, but families had to budget carefully, often joining a Wakes Savings Club, as wakes weeks were unpaid.
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