Do you think these bath machines contributed to the development of seaside excursions?
Willard Gleason
2025-05-04 17:52:48
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Ranging from piers to pavilions and bathing pools to beach huts these colourful historic assets reflect almost 300 years of seaside holidays and are still welcoming millions of visitors each year.
In 2007 English Heritage’s England's Seaside Resorts, described the architectural development of these distinctive settlements.
Our research at Weston-super-Mare has been focused on informing heritage-led regeneration as part of the now completed Heritage Action Zone project there and an ongoing High Street Heritage Action Zone.
Once a relaxing place to promenade and look out to sea, it is now a busy thoroughfare of competing interests, the pursuits of holidaymaking co-existing with these towns’ everyday life and sometimes the local industries that predated tourism.
The seafront may also serve as a town’s public park, a space for celebration and commemoration.
A book written by Historic England’s tourism history expert Allan Brodie features over 150 aerial photographs of England’s best-loved seaside resorts.
The images were taken between the 1920s and the 1950s, when England’s coastal destinations were nearing the peak of their popularity.
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