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Mr. Hamilton Fyfe: The Seaside Yesterday and Today

on 5XX Daventry

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The English seaside has changed, in the last generation, as so many of our other institutions have changed. A generation ago the professional classes went to the seaside for a holiday at the sea; the sea and sand, the wind and spray, the change from town life were what they sought there, and they found them. Nowadays those who seek these attractions go abroad, and throng the resorts of the Norman and Breton coast. Our English seaside is populated, instead, with people who want piers and kursaals, cinemas, concert parties, theatres, concerts - in fact, a constant whirl of urban amusements to which the sea is a background and little more. This, at least, is the impression that Mr. Hamilton Fyfe, the well-known journalist, will record.

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