The New Brighton Story

[Bevy]

Found this on youtube.I enjoyed it,see they are just like us over there but they talk posher :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

Very sad the last part but I guess the start of the package holiday had a big part to play in this,as with many other seaside resorts in England.

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EomfhCF7KL0

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsQYpGmzkp4

Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtt4BntbClw

Part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srQ9cXoERxE&feature=related

Part 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf6y7gxelgk

[shoney]

don't think the english holiday was killed by the spanish holiday,,,, more than the english holiday died because it didn't have a pulse to start with,,, a bar of rock and prize bingo are no sustitute for sun and clear ( not clean ) sea

[Bevy]

don't think the english holiday was killed by the spanish holiday,,,, more than the english holiday died because it didn't have a pulse to start with,,, a bar of rock and prize bingo are no sustitute for sun and clear ( not clean ) sea


If you have watched the above video and seen New Brighton in the 40's&50's as just one example of an English holiday resort then i must disagree,It certainly did have a pulse.

The beaches and hotels were packed from Blackpool to Brighton in the 50's, it was only towards the end of the 60's and 70's that the working man could afford to take the family to Spain for a weeks holiday thanks to the package holiday that the English holiday resort started to fall.

But I do agree, I would much rather be on a sunny beach in spain myself anyday:PDT11

[kevin]

Lived in Morecambe in the late 70's. Preferred it out of season but the place was certainly packed out during the summer months.
Went back last year for the first time in 25 years. Very depressed and run down but signs of investment starting to trickle back in. Long way to go but it's a start.
In the papers the last few days there's been claims that enquiries about British holidays is up 56% over last year - no doubt because of the credit crunch and the increasing strength of the euro against the pound.