OLD ENGLAND SCOTLAND & WALES

Drawn from the Francis Frith Collection photographic archive, this volume of over 400 photographs from the period 1865 to 1928 shows urban and rural Britain, people at work and play and tourist attractions such as Stonehenge and Bodiam Castle. Quaint cottages with rose bedecked walls, old stone-built pubs, ancient buttressed abbeys, ruined Franciscan priories, strange rock formations and tree-lined lanes - all sights we can still see today, but here the people bring the photos to life. Here are children paddling in the sea at Weymouth in 1909 with the girls in wide-brimmed hats, their white dresses tucked into their drawers. Other photos include solemn-faced boys packed onto an elephant in 1913 at London Zoo, ladies in straight shifts and cloche hats walking along a low bridge at Newquay in 1925 and a bowler-hatted young man posing with his horse-drawn delivery cart outside the shop. Though the pace of life was slower and the surroundings more picturesque, people still enjoyed visiting the beach, rummaging around a street market strolling on the pier, peering in shop windows or relaxing in a deckchair just watching the world go by, exactly like us. Covers family, church, military, school, parks, traffic and trains, high streets and shops, town halls, beauty spots and lakes, trade and attractions like donkey rides, paddling at Barry Island and Redcar, The Yorkshire Pierrots on Clacton-on-Sea 1912 with newly discovered leisure time for the masses. Goodwood races, golfing and boat races have changed very little. Wonderful snapshots of a bygone era, many 1880s-1910s all around Britain. The photos are from the Francis Frith and Archie Miles collections. Large, square format 11½", 400 full page mono very nostalgic photos, a real glimpse of past lives and times. Text in German, English, French, Spanish, Italian and Dutch. 320 pages, 27.8 x 29cm.
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