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"Four decades ago, UK residents made 6.7 million holiday trips abroad, but by 2008 that figure was 45.5 million"
"We have also moved away from factory work. In 1978, the manufacturing sector accounted for nearly three in 10 (28.5 per cent) jobs around the UK, but this had fallen by 2009 to one in 10 (10 per cent), the lowest proportion since records began"
"spending a fifth of the household income on food (whereas these days, your biggest expenditure will be on energy bills, probably for all those gadgets you own)"
“trades fortnight” two weeks in the summer when tradesmen take their holidays.
Although a strong tradition during the 19th and 20th centuries, the observance of the holiday has almost disappeared in recent times due to the decline of the manufacturing industries in the United Kingdom and the standardisation of school holidays across England.
"In recent years, Great Yarmouth has seen huge regeneration projects to breathe new life back into a town that never stopped being a popular destination but which needed modernisation and refurbishment. With perfect timing, the British seaside holiday has recently come back into vogue."
"passion and affection the opulence and splendour of Victorian and Edwardian piers, winter gardens
Thus, 'Seaside Environments' covers interesting ground, discussing attempts to regulate resorts, battles with the sea through expensive sea defences, endeavours to manage traditional seaside economies and lifestyles, Walton places particular emphasis on the 'degradation of the built environment'
with architecture losing its distinctiveness, emblems of seaside pleasures demolished or allowed to decay," MORE BELOW
Another long read but very interesting....................................
The British Seaside: Holidays and Resorts in the Twentieth Century John K. Walton
Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2000, ISBN:
http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/233