Historic pictures reveal reality of visiting a beach in Victorian Britain [tr]

UK Daily Mail ^ | September 22, 2016 | Jenny Awford

[C19fan]

From fashionable ladies flashing their ankles as they paddle in the shallows, to hard-working fish wives helping sort the catch of the day, these historic photographs reveal the reality of visiting a beach in Victorian Britain. The snapshots of the past, taken between 1895 and 1902, show the stark contrast between decadence and deprivation on the Yorkshire coast as the straight-laced Victorian era made way to elegant Edwardianism. While two expensively-dressed young children were seen riding donkeys along a road - led by a boy in ragged clothes - other, much more impoverished street urchins, were seen scavenging for shellfish on the rocks. Wearing grubby clothes, the bare-footed boys were seen caked in mud as they clambered over the rock pools at South Bay beach in Scarborough.

[C19fan]

Victorian ladies showing more skin than Muslims with their burkinis. They need to cover up their hair, neck and especially ankles.

[LouieFisk]

Hey! This is a family-friendly site, way too much ankle-showing! Harurrumph!!!

[Williams]

The street urchins are dressed pretty well and seem happy and healthy.

[Travis T. OJustice]

I didn’t get a Harurrumph out of that man!

[golux]

Soon Americans will experience the pleasure of 14+ individual welfare recipients with the charcoal barbecue going in the aluminum oven roaster, the stench of burning lamb, modestly dressed women, the kids with the boom-boxes, and the creepy, stinking husbands staring at your pre-teen daughters' breasts while they drop litter all around you...


But not yet. It hasn't begun quite yet here as it has in the rest of the world.

[MUDDOG]

At The Breakers Hotel beach in Palm Beach in the 1920s, they measured bathing suit skirts with a ruler to make sure they were long enough.

[5th MEB]

HARURRUMPH, HARURRUMPH; we gotta take care of our bullsh!t jobs here you know.

[Travis T. OJustice]

:) Thank you! I knew somebody would get a kick out of that.

[Fast Moving Angel]

I knew somebody would get a kick out of that.

That seems to be one of the favorite movies around these parts ;-)