Loans Box – A Seaside Journey
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Loans Box 12
KS 1/2/3
Subjects: History, Geography, Social History, Science, Literacy, Music
The Victorian working classes went on day trips to the seaside from the factory towns. Wealthier people went for a week in the summer, staying in hotels or guest houses. 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.
| 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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Loans Boxes for Educational purposes – Special Free Offer
These are on special offer from 1 January – 31 December 2021 (with grateful thanks to grant funding from the Children’s Trust and St Hilda’s Trust). All loans boxes for the purposes of education are available to borrow free of charge for a maximum period of two weeks by schools, childminders, regularly home schooled pupils and young people’s groups until 31 December 2021. Any one user or institution may borrow a maximum of 2 boxes at the same time.
Loans Boxes for any other (non-educational) purpose cost £15 inc. VAT for each two week period of hire Extended periods of hire may be agreed with Bailiffgate for an additional charge (please telephone on 01665 605847)
How to Book
Free and paid for loans boxes are booked online (if you have any questions, please telephone on 01665 605847)·
- Click on the calendar below to check the dates you want are available and reserve your two week period from Saturday to Saturday (please note if you exceed the 14 days it will not allow you to book)· Click on the ‘Sponsored or Not’ drop down to confirm whether you qualify for the free loans box or whether you need to pay the fee
- Click on Book Now to complete your booking
- Complete relevant details and Proceed to Checkout
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). 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).
