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  • A sad looking Union jack flag hanging from a flagpole at the seaside, on 22nd April 2017, in Clevedon, North Somerset, England.
    england_seaside-01-22-04-2017.jpg
  • On a crowded spring day at the seaside, when families and holidaymakers, daytrippers and locals gather at England's coastal regions, a woman here is seen biting into a very soft cream cake. Covered with a chocolate topping, she sinks her mouth into its pastry and somehow manages not to let the cream ooze out over her clothes. Holding a serviette to catch drips, she looks elsewhere as behind, others stand or lean against the solid concrete sea defence wall at Scarborough, North Yorskhire.
    seaside_cake-25-05-1992.jpg
  • Beach family below fish shadows at the Suffolk seaside town of Southwold, Suffolk.
    seaside_family02-25-07-2012.jpg
  • A holiday couple sleep on portable beds in a particularly shabby corner of Bournemouth, a seaside resort in southern England.
    seaside_posters01-20-10-1990.jpg
  • A daytrip of old age pensioners are seated on a bench in Great Yarmouth, a seaside resort in eastern England.
    seaside_pensioners05-27-05-1992.jpg
  • Pensioners on holiday - or on a daytrip - at the Nofilk seaside town of Great Yarmouth wait for a friend beneath a wide banner advertising a Karaoke event at the venue behind them that night. There are four old ladies and one man in the group, all dressed in summer clothes for their day at the beach. Only the gentleman is looking our way as the women are otherwise occupied. There is litter at their feet and garish posters are behind them. The man is outnumbered, a gender ratio of 4 to 1.
    seaside_pensioners01-27-05-1992.jpg
  • A father rests his head on tattooed arms while minding his baby, asleep in its buggy on the promenade at the north-eastern seaside resort of Scarborough, on 21st August 1992, in Scarborough, England.
    seaside_people-21-08-1992_1.jpg
  • A lady peers down into the viewfinder of a vintage film camera whilst holidaying on the pier at Bournemouth seaside resort, on 20th October 1990, in Bournemouth, England.
    seaside_people-20-10-1990_1.jpg
  • An elderly couple sit in peace on a quiet beach in the seaside resort of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. In a classic English beach holiday scene, the husband and wife relax, reclining in a pair of deckchairs at a kiosk that dispenses these quaintly British beach chairs. A sign telling other holidaymakers to collect and pay for their time in them appears on the freshly-painted clap-board wall. As the lazy completes word puzzles in her magazine, the gentleman reads his regular copy of the Daily Mirror tabloid newspaper. He is tanned, perhaps spent his summer tending his garden back home but here on holiday, they both have the chance to spend some time together away from home, in a resort known for its beaches and coastal adventures.
    seaside_pensioners02-27-05-1992.jpg
  • Two boys carry large inflatable rings at a watersport ride called the River Run, at the north-eastern seaside resort of Scarborough, on 21st August 1992, in Scarborough, England.
    seaside_people-21-08-1992_2.jpg
  • As an older daughter plays in the surf, a young girl hugs her mother while on holiday in the southern English seaside resort of Paignton, on 19th July 1993, in Paignton, England.
    seaside_people-19-07-1993_1.jpg
  • Ducking under the falling spray from a giant wave, a passer-by experience the force of nature from a storm off the coasts of southern England - here at the Port of Dover, Kent. As the water hits the sea defence wall, the seaside town is battered by southerly winds that bring with them huge breakers across the promenade. Adventurous and foolhardy people brave these conditions and stay for as long as possible at the railings then jump out at the last moment before getting doused in salt spray. This man carries on walking and thinks that by bending down, the sea will pass overhead.
    seaside_storm-21-10-1989.jpg
  • A rather eccentric-looking man is seated on a bench on Blackpool's North Pier. This northern seaside resort in the north-west of England is diverse in its transient holiday population whose behaviour can be routinely odd. The pier has intricate cast ironwork seat backs dating from 1863 and the man sits with ankles crossed, wearing a suit and trilby hat on a warm summer's day. In the background we see families - parents and children - playing and walking on the beach at low-tide - the golden sands a much-visited aspect of Blackpool, the largest resort in the north of England and visited traditionally by working people from industrial towns and cities during the industrial revolution.
    seaside_pensioner-30-07-1993.jpg
  • A detail of a rock and holiday souvenir seller in the Lancashire seaside town of Blackpool. Standing in his shop, we see the owner of this seaside shop on the northwest England resort where buying seaside gifts and souvenirs is ever popular by visitors and daytrippers. In 1887, sugar-boiling factory owner Ben Bullock bought some plain stick candy band had the idea of putting ‘Blackpool Rock’ through the centre of the rock. Now a major industry in the holiday season in Britain and many seaside towns have their versions with their own names running through the rock. Modern seaside rock is thicker, about 1 inch, and more solid than the original form. Its sugar content is nowadays a reason not to buy as much, the adverse effects on teeth from sugar and colouring by the confectionary industry being a main reason for its decline.
    blackpool_rock-19-07-1993.jpg
  • A rack of quintessentially English 'saucy postcards' are on display in Scarborough, the northern seaside town. Telling jokes to send back to friends and family, they using cartoon characters of buxom women, hen-pecked husbands or sexually-frustrated young men, the humour is bawdy and cheeky - the epitome of seaside holiday kitsch. The best-known saucy seaside postcards were created by Bamforths (founded 1870) and despite the decline in popularity of postcards that are overtly tacky, postcards continue to be a significant economic and cultural aspect of British seaside tourism. In the 1950s, Bamforth postcards were among the most popular of the 18 million items purchased at British resorts.
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  • A young boy looks carefully at the many saucy postcards on sale outside a seaside shop, on 19th July 1993, in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England. Telling jokes to send back to friends and family, they using cartoon characters of buxom women, hen-pecked husbands or sexually-frustrated young men, the humour is bawdy and cheeky - the epitome of seaside holiday kitsch. The best-known saucy seaside postcards were created by Bamforths (founded 1870) and despite the decline in popularity of postcards that are overtly tacky, postcards continue to be a significant economic and cultural aspect of British seaside tourism. In the 1950s, Bamforth postcards were among the most popular of the 18 million items purchased at British resorts.
    saucy_postcards-21-08-1993.jpg
  • Three laughing ladies hold up their sticks of rock beneath a seaside character on the seafront at Blackpool, on 18th July 1993, Blackpool, Lancashire, England. In 1887, sugar-boiling factory owner Ben Bullock bought some plain stick candy band had the idea of putting ‘Blackpool Rock’ through the centre of the rock. Now a major industry in the holiday season in Britain and many seaside towns have their versions with their own names running through the rock. Modern seaside rock is thicker, about 1 inch, and more solid than the original form. Its sugar content is nowadays a reason not to buy as much, the adverse effects on teeth from sugar and colouring by the confectionary industry being a main reason for its decline.
    blackpool_rock_ladies-18-07-1993.jpg
  • A lady sits outside in morning sunshine on the terrace of her B+B guesthouse in the Devon seaside town of Paignton. It is late morning and a lady has emerged from her bead and breakfast. Sunlight is quite high in the sky and the shadows of a vine that is growing across the roof of the building's terrace, is seen on the wall behind the woman. She is seated reading a magazine in a garden chair and is surrounded by colourful flowers in their prime. Well-painted original victorian railings that act as a sort of ballustrade are in front of the female. In the window is a scene of typical seaside Englishness. Serviettes are splayed out on a table along with breakfast or dinner items awaiting guests at the next meal.
    b+b_woman-21-07-1992.jpg
  • Lifeguards in the seaside resort of Lowestoft practise the recovery position and resuscitation to a volunteer seaside victim. Lying on the smooth sand near the water's edge, a young man wearing a wetsuit lies pretending to be unconscious, having ingested sea water and requiring immediate treatment by the staff, well-versed in saving lives. As one starts chest compressions, the other holds on the mouth before continuing mouth-to-mouth. Passing time is vital if they are to start a heart and get air into the brain.
    lifeguard_exercise-19-07-1993.jpg
  • As if separated by many decades, we see an older generation beach guard from a bygone era and a much younger lifeguard, both resting on the seafront of the posh Essex seaside town of Frinton-on-Sea, England. If simply comparing the colour schemes of the past, to the modern day, we might guess that in the gentleman on the right's day, people wore more formal blues, with collar and tie and polished shoes on the hottest day - reminiscent of Victorian times when pomp and tradition rather than practicalities were important . Nowadays, complimentary reds and yellows adorn the uniform of the lad trained in water injuries and life-saving. He is barefoot and sits comfortably against the sea defence wall in peak cap and t-shirt. This is a scene describing the generation gap, of youth versus experience - the classic English seaside holiday.
    frinton_lifeguards-26-06-1992.jpg
  • Sitting on garden seats, a seaside couple enjoy ice creams near broken building materials in the resort of Sandown. A decaying pile of rubble and building bricks have been left on the ground where visitors and tourists sit on their holiday making for a grim and depressing experience and dystopic landscape. This is the seaside resort of Sandown on the Isle of Wight, twinned (jumelée in French) with the town of Tonnay-Charente, in the western French département of Charente-Maritime. Its American twin town is St. Pete Beach, Florida.
    derelict_beach-18-06-1989.jpg
  • A portrait of a lady fishmonger and her shellfish in the Norfolk seaside town of Great Yarmouth. Holding up a tray of fish and shellfish, the lady proudly stands outside her kiosk in the centre of this eastern England seaside resort. A pot of shrimps, some crabs, salmon steaks and traditional kippers are shown to us. In the background are cod fillets, prawns and other smoked fish.
    fishmonger_portair-27-05-1992.jpg
  • A grinning portrait of a fishmonger from the Princess Cafe on Foreshore Road in the North Yorkshire seaside town of Scarborough. Smiling with bad teeth but with a generous and kind face, the elderly man stands on the corner, outside his traditional seaside business in the centre of town where passing trade from locals and tourists guarantee him an income  - a secure future towards his retirement in the coming years. In the background are signs advertising his produce: Haddock, Cod, and Lemon Sole - all locally caught and served with chips.
    fishmonger_portrait02-19-07-1993.jpg
  • It is night-time on Blackpool's Golden Mile, the seaside resort in Lancashire, England. Like an English Las Vegas the neon lights glow to entice the holidaymaker inside where slot machines, games and rides await visitors to lose their vacation money. The Golden Mile is the name given to the stretch of Promenade between the North and South piers. It emerged in the late 19th Century, when small-time fairground operators, fortune-tellers, phrenologists and oyster bars set up in the front gardens of boarding houses, This northern seaside resort in the north-west of England is diverse in its transient holiday population whose behaviour can be routinely odd. Blackpool is the largest resort in the north of England and visited traditionally by working people from industrial towns and cities during the industrial revolution.
    blackpool01-30-07-1993.jpg
  • A grinning portrait of a fishmonger from the Princess Cafe on Foreshore Road in the North Yorkshire seaside town of Scarborough. Smiling with bad teeth but with a generous and kind face, the elderly man stands on the corner, outside his traditional seaside business in the centre of town where passing trade from locals and tourists guarantee him an income  - a secure future towards his retirement in the coming years. In the background are signs advertising his produce: Haddock, Cod, and Lemon Sole - all locally caught and served with chips.
    fishmonger_portrait01-19-07-1993.jpg
  • Attentive of their owner, Golden Retrievers balance on the wall of a seaside property on 14th August 2020, in Aldeburgh, Norfolk, England.
    adleburgh08-14-08-2020.jpg
  • Ensuring that all doors and locks are secured, a visitor locks a beach hut on the seaside promenade, on 18th July 2020, in Whitstable, Kent, England.
    whitstable_beach20-18-07-2020.jpg
  • As a neighbour packs away beach equipment, another ensures that all doors and locks are secured on a beach hut on the seaside promenade, on 18th July 2020, in Whitstable, Kent, England.
    whitstable_beach21-18-07-2020.jpg
  • Elderly visitors to Weston-super-Mare read an events brochure on the seaside resort's seafront.
    weston_seafront01-08-08-2015.jpg
  • Olympic flags flying on a mini golf putting green in the Suffolk seaside town of Southwold, Suffolk.
    olympic_putting_green01-25-07-2012.jpg
  • A person stands below a maritime shipping transit navigation sign at the Suffolk seaside town of Southwold, Suffolk.
    adleborough_seaside04-26-07-2012.jpg
  • With his personal belongings and beach shingle surrounding him, a man sits on his seaside towel in soft sunlight in Dover eating a snack which is dribbling out of his mouth. The skin from many previous hours of exposure to solar radiation has left him raw and sunburned and therefore dried and dying skin is peeling in shreds on his back and shoulder. He looks like an eccentric local character who seems oblivious to the health risks that his continued sunbathing is inflicting on his bizarrely scorched body.
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  • A deflated union jack flag beach lilo is abandoned in in a window of a seaside shop called The Tropicana in Weston-super-Mare, a victim of the UK recession and the tourist trade.
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  • As a neighbour packs away beach equipment, another ensures that all doors and locks are secured on a beach hut on the seaside promenade, on 18th July 2020, in Whitstable, Kent, England.
    whitstable_beach22-18-07-2020.jpg
  • Beach shop and fish sign shadows at the Suffolk seaside town of Southwold, Suffolk.
    southwold_seaside01-25-07-2012.jpg
  • From a low angle we see, waving a cheery hello to a friend, a rather plump resident of the posh Essex seaside town of Frinton-on-Sea holds on to her oversized sunglasses, her cushion and a portable transistor radio - all of which she has been using whilst on the sea front that we see in the distance behind her round body. Wearing 'Tory blue' (the colour favoured by the Margaret Thatcher during the eighties) the lady has her straw hat tied under the folds of fat of an ample chin and appears to be calling an English Coo-ee! call to the out-of-sight acquaintance.
    frinton_beach_lady-26-06-1992.jpg
  • Beneath an ugly breeze block concrete wall, a couple are enjoying their holiday in the English seaside town of Paignton, Devon. Sitting in striped deckchairs they are both curiously touching their own genital areas between their legs, perhaps both scratching an itch. The lady in sunglasses wearing a floral dress on the left looks guilty while her topless male partner appears more amused by the interruption. In this depressing corner of Paignton, also called the English Riviera, the grey construction behind them is a grim reminder of what it is often like to holiday in one's own home country where few exotic luxuries are found. Such squalor is unfortunately common around the UK and a reason why people take their vacations abroad. Even the grass below them is bare with weeds growing and soil at the foot of the wall.
    england_beach01-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • A deflated union jack flag beach lilo is abandoned in in a window of a seaside shop called The Tropicana in Weston-super-Mare, a victim of the UK recession and the tourist trade.
    closed_businesses108-11-04-2009.jpg
  • A rather obese woman stands in the waves at the seaside resort of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk. With hands behind her back and fingers interlocked the lady wears a turquoise bathing costume that just about fits her ample, wide body. Her bottom is large as are her legs that have cellulite on the tops of her thighs. She looks left alone, a solitary person standing with her back to the viewer - or perhaps she is standing guard, keeping watch on children as they play safely in the sea. Water splashes against her lower legs and is frozen still by a fast shutter speed. It is a fine, bright sunny afternoon on this Eastern coast of England, more noted for very changeable weather rather than the heatwave experienced here.
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  • A young family stand next to a seaside cut-out board on Southwold Pier, on 14th August 2020, in Southwold, Norfolk, England.
    southwold03-14-08-2020.jpg
  • A mermaid in the window of a seaside business warns in both the English and Welsh languages, of the dangers of litter on 13th September 2018, in Barmouth, Gwynedd, Wales.
    barmouth_mermaid-01-13-09-2018.jpg
  • Detail of a shop window selling seaside holiday trinkets including different sizes of Golliwogs, on 14th July 2017, at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England. The golliwog is a black fictional character from the late 19th century depicting a rag doll. It was reproduced by commercial and hobby toy-makers as a children's toy and had great popularity in the UK and Australia into the 1970s. The doll has black skin, eyes rimmed in white, clown lips and frizzy hair and was seen, along with the teddy bear, as a suitable soft toy for a young boy. The image of the doll has become the subject of controversy as the Golliwog has been seen as a depiction of black people, accused along with pickaninnies, minstrels, mammy figures, and other caricatures as being racist. The golliwog has been described as "the least known of the major anti-Black caricatures in the United States.
    scarborough-08-14-07-2017.jpg
  • Detail of a sign outside a seaside trinket shop, on 14th July 2017, at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England.
    scarborough-05-14-07-2017.jpg
  • Relfections through a glass panel whowing the seaside town of Bridlington, including the town's Spa, on 13th July 2017, at Bridlington, East Riding, England.
    bridlington-06-13-07-2017.jpg
  • Traditional seafront holiday trinket and seaside memento shop doorway on Pier Hill at Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
    southend_seafront-21-17-09-2016.jpg
  • Two generations of seaside visitors sit on the sea wall of the Portuguese Riviera, on 12th July 2016, at Cascais, near Lisbon, Portugal. Cascais is a coastal town and a municipality in Portugal, 30 kilometres (19 miles) west of Lisbon. The former fishing village gained fame as a resort for Portugal's royal family in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Nowadays, it is a popular vacation spot for both Portuguese and foreign tourists and located on the Estoril Coast. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    portugal_cascais-15-12-07-2016.jpg
  • Visitors to Weston-super-Mare walk over the causeway on the seaside resort's seafront.
    weston_seafront04-08-08-2015.jpg
  • Expensive real estate beach hut at the Suffolk seaside town of Southwold, Suffolk.
    beach_hut01-25-07-2012.jpg
  • Expensive real estate beach hut at the Suffolk seaside town of Southwold, Suffolk.
    beach_huts02-25-07-2012.jpg
  • Expensive real estate beach hut at the Suffolk seaside town of Southwold, Suffolk.
    beach_hut12-25-07-2012.jpg
  • Evening fish and chip diners on the coast at the Suffolk seaside town of Southwold, Suffolk.
    southwold_seaside03-25-07-2012.jpg
  • The Lord Nelson Inn at the Suffolk seaside town of Southwold, Suffolk.
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  • A dirty Keep Devon Tidy council sign discouraging litter at their seaside has been written over by graffiti.
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  • An abandoned Crazy Golf course lies broken and sad in a field at the north-western seaside resort of Southport.
    crazy_golf_landscape01-19-12-1997.jpg
  • Holidaymakers are seated in deckchairs on the North Pier at Blackpool, England. As a man in the back row drinks deeply from a can and a lady next to him looks intently at life to the right, a more eccentric woman sleeps with a lacy handkerchief stretched across her face, pinned inside her sunglasses. Looking very English with embroidered or printed pattern of flowers. This northern seaside resort in the north-west of England is diverse in its transient holiday population whose behaviour can be routinely odd. Blackpool is the largest resort in the north of England and visited traditionally by working people from industrial towns and cities during the industrial revolution.
    blackpool02-30-07-1993.jpg
  • Seaside spectators enjoy fly-past by the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team at Weston-super-Mare
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  • Seaside spectators enjoy fly-past by the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team at Weston-super-Mare
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  • Seaside people use steps on Brighton's steps near the West Pier.
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  • A mid-morning mist sweeps across the seafront's South Beach at Scarborough, the seaside town in North Yorkshire. Kids run about on the wet sand, some leaping and some just carrying buckets of salt water for sandcastles elsewhere. With the freedom and open-space, children who perhaps live in bleak industrial towns in northern England can enjoy the fresh-air on this north-eastern coast. Their reflections are also seen on the shiny sand and although it appears to be as grim as their home may be, it is in fact a warm day but the daily sea fogs that roll across this beach, a microclimate exists and is unique to this area.
    scarborough_beach08-21-1992_1.jpg
  • Someone's pet spaniel is enjoying the smell of another dog's faeces that has been deposited on the pavement at Newbiggin-by-the-sea in Northumberland, northern England. Using its wet nose to test its acute sense of smell, the spaniel shows great curiosity in another animals crap that has been left by the other animal's owner, rather than be collected and placed in a dog poo receptacle. The irony is that there is graffiti on the sea wall of this seaside town. The mis-spelled words 'England For Ever' have been sprayed in aerosol on the wall and we see someone's idea of a utopian England and another's lowered standards where the fouling of a public pavement is seen as acceptable.
    england_forever-18-07-1994.jpg
  • Using a tabloid newspaper, a father seeks shelter from sunshine while sitting in a council deck chair. On the front page of the paper is a headline saying "Butchered' showing a picture of an unfortunate young 3 year-old boy murdered by a maniac axeman. Close-by is the man's own son who is digging a hole furiously in the sand. He looks uncannily like a slightly older version of the murdered boy. This coincidence is heightened because of the body-language of the digging lad, seemingly about to chop an unseen object with his red spade. Both man and boy are on holiday at the northern English seaside resort of Scarborough, North Yorkshire and they are otherwise having a great time on South Beach, near the Grand Hotel building, high up on the cliff.
    england_beach03-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • A rather rotund man wearing a flat cap, a checked shirt under braces that keep his ample trousers up above his fat tummy, affectionately tickled his pet dog, a Whippet ,who stands still with two paws on his master's large leg. It is a bright day on the beach at Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England. Bathers are running on the sand in the background and the man and his dog are content to watch the world go by from their promenade bench. Their is a great deal of trust and love these two have for each other - the gentleman having brought his dog on holiday to the seaside with him, rather than leave him with friends or in kennels. The dog is healthy, lithe and obviously has great speed in those muscular legs, vastly different to the man, whose frame is heavy and slow.
    cap_whippet05-25-1992.jpg
  • Four water-logged deckchairs have been abandoned on a wet Brighton's East Pier in East Sussex. It is Spring but the rain has driven away holidaymakers from this desolate and depressing spot from England's South coast seaside resort. We see a gloomy, grey sky and empty horizon with neither people, nor water activity but the stripes of the railings are echoed in the reflective wooden planks on this Victorian-era pier and of the fabric on the deckchairs. We wonder who might have sat on these chairs and where they might be now?  This landscape might be the antithesis of a holiday poster that repels rather than attracts tourists to this location.
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  • On a bright summer afternoon, a young spoiled girl shows-off by riding her favourite motorized Barbie trike along The Parade, the main promenade in the north Welsh seaside town of Llandudno, Wales. Wearing a bright pink helmet and travelling on the matching pink toy bike, she trundles along with the low-tide coast over her left shoulder. Barbie is a best-selling fashion doll launched in 1959 and produced by Mattel, Inc. The brand's merchandising reaches far and wide to countries and cultures around the world and this little girl seems to be the happiest on the beach, enjoying a generous present perhaps from a parent. She is the exact age that Mattel are targeting when they market these toys to accompany their dolls and accessories though the industry has come under fire for its controversial stereotyping of gender and subtle sexuality.
    barbie_girl05-18-1992.jpg
  • A pre-pubescent voyeur peers over a clump of vegetation to spy on four beautiful women lying face-down in a sandy dune near the seaside resort of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
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  • A makeshift warning sign made from plywood is roughly painted with letters declaring 'oil on beach.' It hangs on some silver railings on an unknown beach in England. The sand is strewn with sharp stones and litter and coloured (colored) a dirty brown stain high up on the shore line and more worrying, a little more distant, a father cuddles his baby child on a towel surrounded by possessions such as a cool box and the seaside toys of a happy family holiday (vacation). We look down on to this scene in disbelief that a parent lies down on such polluted terrain when health and safety considerations might have closed the entire esplanade.
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  • Whilst one spectator cranes her neck skyward, another is oblivious to an air show spectacle above their heads. One looks up into the sun, shielding her eyes with a hand and outstretched fingers but the other concentrates on lighting her cigarette with a match. Unseen in this picture, the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, are performing high in the blue skies above the public on West Greensward, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. In front of the seaside town's brightly coloured red and yellow Lifeguard Station, the two ladies have different interests in the aerobatic manoeuvres. The Red Arrows' 25-minute display either captivates some or bores others although they can be seen upwards of 90-plus shows and fly-pasts each year in front of several millions live or on TV. They have flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.
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  • A competitor in the annual Birdman of Bognor event attempts to fly at Bognor Regis, East Sussex, England. English eccentrics gather annually at the southern seaside town to jump from the pier into the chilly waters of the English Channel. Fun jumpers ?wearing? their aeroplane suits compete for a £25,000 prize for the one to fly 100 metres from the pier platform ? a record not yet achieved. Entrants (who often jump for charity rather than any aeronautical pretensions) include sugar plum fairies, condoms, Ninja Turtles and vampires. The winner was a hang-glider pilot reaching 26 metres but here, a Spitfire sponsored by a milk company drops vertically. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903. .
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  • A disabled man drives his mobility scooter past a social distance sign on the seaside promenade, during the Coronavirus pandemic, on 14th August 2020, in Southwold, Norfolk, England.
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  • While other UK seaside resorts overcrowded during the Coronavirus pandemic,  staycationers enjoy calm seas on the Norfolk coast, on 14th August 2020, in Southwold, Norfolk, England.
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  • Detail of a shop window selling seaside holiday trinkets including different sizes of Golliwogs, on 14th July 2017, at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England. The golliwog is a black fictional character from the late 19th century depicting a rag doll. It was reproduced by commercial and hobby toy-makers as a children's toy and had great popularity in the UK and Australia into the 1970s. The doll has black skin, eyes rimmed in white, clown lips and frizzy hair and was seen, along with the teddy bear, as a suitable soft toy for a young boy. The image of the doll has become the subject of controversy as the Golliwog has been seen as a depiction of black people, accused along with pickaninnies, minstrels, mammy figures, and other caricatures as being racist. The golliwog has been described as "the least known of the major anti-Black caricatures in the United States.
    scarborough-07-14-07-2017.jpg
  • Detail of a shop window selling seaside holiday trinkets including different sizes of Golliwogs, on 14th July 2017, at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England. The golliwog is a black fictional character from the late 19th century depicting a rag doll. It was reproduced by commercial and hobby toy-makers as a children's toy and had great popularity in the UK and Australia into the 1970s. The doll has black skin, eyes rimmed in white, clown lips and frizzy hair and was seen, along with the teddy bear, as a suitable soft toy for a young boy. The image of the doll has become the subject of controversy as the Golliwog has been seen as a depiction of black people, accused along with pickaninnies, minstrels, mammy figures, and other caricatures as being racist. The golliwog has been described as "the least known of the major anti-Black caricatures in the United States.
    scarborough-09-14-07-2017.jpg
  • Detail of a sign outside a seaside trinket shop selling temporary tattoos, on 14th July 2017, at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England.
    scarborough-06-14-07-2017.jpg
  • English and British flags on sale for a few Pounds outside a seaside trinket shop, on 14th July 2017, at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England.
    scarborough-04-14-07-2017.jpg
  • The landlady of a typical British seaside Bed and Breakfast sits outside wearing her apron while a tame seagull waits for regular titbit scraps that she feeds the gull and its female partner, on 14th July 2017, at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England.
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  • Traditional seafront holiday trinket and seaside memento shop on Pier Hill at Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
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  • An aerial view of a beach volleyball game, played by young, fit people on the sand at a seaside, on 12th July 2016, at Cascais, near Lisbon, Portugal. A young woman leaps prematurely to block an oncoming serve by her opposition team. Cascais is a coastal town and a municipality in Portugal, 30 kilometres (19 miles) west of Lisbon. The former fishing village gained fame as a resort for Portugal's royal family in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Nowadays, it is a popular vacation spot for both Portuguese and foreign tourists and located on the Estoril Coast also known as the Portuguese Riviera. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • An aerial view of sunbathing individuals, couples and families, on a sandy beach cove, on 12th July 2016, at Cascais, near Lisbon, Portugal. A couple of parasols shade some, and others are topless but otherwise the crowd enjoy the fierce, mid-day heat and sunlight at this seaside resort, a short train ride west from the Portuguese capital. Cascais is a coastal town and a municipality in Portugal, 30 kilometres (19 miles) west of Lisbon. The former fishing village gained fame as a resort for Portugal's royal family in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Nowadays, it is a popular vacation spot for both Portuguese and foreign tourists and located on the Estoril Coast also known as the Portuguese Riviera. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Traditional seaside imagery and contemporary toy dispenser in Barra, Costa Nova, Aveiro, Portugal.
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  • Schoolboys get dressed after an afternoon off from classes, spent next to the western Palace Pier at the seaside town of Brighton. Pulling on socks is a young lad from a nearby school whose uniform is a red blazer and striped tie. With their clothing of their friends still lie on the shngle, their afternoon of play day is coming to an end. In the background is the western Palace Pier, a major landmark on this south coast resort. Ofsted's guidelines are that for children of 9-12, a ratio of one adult to 8 young people is a requirement.
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  • A family walk along the surf with their reflections in wet sand at the Welsh seaside town of Llandudno. Holding a very tired toddler, the mother walks alongside the father and a small girl who splashes in shallow water. Their figures are seen in the reflected wet sand at low tide.
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  • A holiday couple sit in deck-chairs to enjoy their chips wrapped in paper, the traditional way for eating fish and chips while at the seaside. The people scoff their food as a seagull stands patiently on the promenade wall waiting to scavenge from anything dropped or left behind. The bird's razor-sharp beak will cause injury and distress so the couple eat quickly before moving on.
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  • Looking down on an elderly couple as they sit on soft sand at a beach in Lowestoft, Suffolk, England. Full-clothed, even on this warm day, they look out to see and watch something of interest towards the water's edge. They may be daytrippers to this east coast seaside resort and will only spend a short time under the sun, keeping thei sandals on. The husband points and the wife funbles for her sstraw hat that matches his.
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  • With a drying beach towel drying on the sea wall, a seaside holidaymaker sips tea outside her seafront chalet in Lowestoft.
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  • Expensive real estate beach hut at the Suffolk seaside town of Southwold, Suffolk.
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  • Evening fish and chip diners on the coast at the Suffolk seaside town of Southwold, Suffolk.
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  • Expensive real estate beach huts at the Suffolk seaside town of Southwold, Suffolk.
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  • Expensive real estate beach hut at the Suffolk seaside town of Southwold, Suffolk.
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  • Expensive real estate beach hut at the Suffolk seaside town of Southwold, Suffolk.
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  • Expensive real estate beach hut at the Suffolk seaside town of Southwold, Suffolk.
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  • Neglected but expensive real estate beach hut at the Suffolk seaside town of Southwold, Suffolk.
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  • Neglected but expensive real estate beach hut at the Suffolk seaside town of Southwold, Suffolk.
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  • Union Jack flags flutter on a summer breeze at the Suffolk seaside town of Southwold, Suffolk.
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  • Expensive real estate beach hut at 4x4 car at the Suffolk seaside town of Southwold, Suffolk.
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  • Union Jack flags flutter on a summer breeze at the Suffolk seaside town of Southwold, Suffolk.
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  • Southwold pier sign at the Suffolk seaside town.
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  • Southwold pier sign and fish art at the Suffolk seaside town.
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  • The Sole Bay Inn beneath the famous lighthouse landmark at the Suffolk seaside town of Southwold, Suffolk.
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  • The Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, perform their public display over a harbour wall seaside crowd landscape.
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  • Lifeguards in the seaside resort of Lowestoft practise recover position and resuscitation to volunteer victim on beach.
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