Seaside Resorts in Kent
The Swanley History Group’s monthly talk for April was about the history of seaside resorts in Britain. They had a guest speaker who spoke about the seaside resorts and he brought in a number of photos, paintings and postcards to show us what holidays at the seaside used to look like at an earlier time in history. The images he brought showed beaches, beach huts and piers with adverts to encourage people to visit the seaside from the nineteenth century. There were also a few postcards from the early twentieth century. There was a particular focus on resorts in Kent, including Margate, Westgate, Broadstairs and more. To encourage people to visit Kent, the railway companies worked together to advertise the resorts with posters as in the 1830s, visitors could take…