Figure 1.--The English boys here, probably in the 1920s, seem to be weating their school clothes (figure 1). Notice the snake builts as well as the long handled shovels. Image courtesy of the PH collection, |
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Many of the images we have of children plying in the sand a building sand castles are English images. This is in part because England as a island nation had beaches within a short distance of all its major cities. Visits to the seaside were popular with all social classess and the short distances involved helped to make it a relatively inexpensive excursion that eben working-class families could afford. Early portrairs were taken in srudios with the children holding tin bucjets and shovels. We notice English boys holding long-handel shovels. I remenver items like troiwels came withbeach buckeets, but these shovels may be more of a chronologicl item than a national item.Actual beach images of the children becam increasingly common after World War I. Often boys are earing their regular clothes, only removing their shoes and socks. This suggests that they were not swiming at the beach. The English boys here, probably in the 1920s, seem to be weating their school clothes (figure 1). Notice the snake builts. A BC reader tells us about his boyhood, Bill remembers going to the seaside with his brothers in the 1960s-70s.
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