Loans Box – A Seaside Journey-From 1900 Onwards

Name: Loans Box - A Seaside Journey-From 1900 Onwards
SKU: LOANSBOX12
Availability: InStock

Price range: £0.00 through £15.00

Loans Box 12

KS 1/2/3

Subjects: History, Geography, Social History, Science, Literacy, Music

Visits to the seaside for health reasons had been a ritual that Georgian upper classes only participated in. As time went on and travel became easier, however-especially after the advent of the railways- the popularity of resorts along the south, west and east sides of Britain took off.

The working classes went on day trips from the factory towns to resorts like Blackpool and Scarborough. Wealthier people went for a week in the summer, staying in hotels or guest houses in more “select” locations like Torquay and Brighton. To attract visitors, lots of seaside towns built piers out into the sea. People enjoyed strolling along them to breathe in the fresh, healthy sea air. This trend boomed between the Wars, and continued after WW2 until foreign travel became accessible to the general population.

With increasing difficulties in air travel, security concerns and a warming UK climate, there is evidence that the trend for UK holidays, mainly based on short-stay, is returning.

Box Contents:

Tin Travelling Trunk

4x large postcards

Camera 1920s box Brownie

2x 1950s 127 Camera

Retractable Camera

1960s Kodak 133 Instamatic Camera

2x 1950s tin buckets

1x wooden spade

1x tin spade

1x Mr Punch Puppet

Glass Float

Shell souvenir box

Seaside souvenir inkpot

1930s sunglasses

Ladbroke Holidays Dance Medal

Early telescope

12 Eastbourne photo snaps

Magnetic fishing game with 4 rods, 12 wooden fish, 4 plastic fish

Reproduction Edwardian bathing costume Red and White

1940s/50s knitted blue swimming costume

Ladies pink 1940s swimsuit

Boys swim trunks 1950s

Knitted girl’s swimsuit pattern

1 white bathing hat

Ladies straw sun hat with flowers

2x children’s straw sunhats

2x Edwardian boaters (1 adult size, 1 child size)

1950s toy sailing yacht

1950s summer children’s sandals

Rainbow fish game

Bag of assorted tropical shells

6x children’s sou’westers

6x children’s jackets

Plastic seaside animals

Parasol (supplied separately)

2 x children’s fishing nets (supplied separately)

Laminated black & white photographs of fishermen, herring girls & boats (5 x A4, 2 x A5)

Books and CDs

100 Seashore Facts

The Mousehole Cat

The Rainbow Fish (with CD and fabric toy)

A Fisher – How We Work

Grace Darling History

Grace Darling Colouring Book

Gansey Patterns of North East England

The English at the Seaside

Victorian Seaside Holidays

Noddy at the Seaside

CD of fishing sounds

Information sheets

Punch and Judy

Boulmer mothers and wives (laminated)

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Our Loans Box service is again free of charge to schools, home educators, childminders and youth organisations. A small charge of £15 per box for up to two weeks is made for care homes and all other individuals and organisations wishing to use this service.

Free and paid for loans boxes are booked online (if you have any questions, please telephone the museum office on 01665 605847)·

Please contact the office by telephone during working hours or by email to ask@bailiffgatemuseum.co.uk to check the dates you want to loan this box are available.
When you have agreed a satisfactory period, then select whether you are a sponsored or not and click on Add to Basket to process your booking, stating the period you want to borrow the box for in the Order Notes on the Checkout page.

Please note: All bookings run from Saturday to Saturday and users must collect and deliver the loans boxes back to Bailiffgate Museum & Gallery (Open Tuesday to Sunday, 10am – 4pm, Sundays 11am-4pm)). Loans Boxes and any additional items not contained in the loans box must be returned by at least the stated return date. You may return them early but note we are not open on Mondays. See our Terms and Conditions (and please ensure you read paragraph 12 which details terms and conditions for Loans Boxes).