British Seaside Gallery

Mother and four children on the beach

A delightful photograph of a Mother and her four children spending the day on the beach at Palm Bay, Cliftonville, Margate, Kent. It looks as if Ma if knittinga jumper for her youngest daughter, having already produced two for her elder female siblings! Date: circa 1920s

© Mary Evans / Pharcide

Beach, Brother, Children, Family, Group, Holiday, Knit, Knits, Knitting, Lovely, Ma, Mother, Palm, Perambulators, Pram, Prams, Rug, Sand, Sea Side, Sister, Sisters, Sit, Sits, Sitting, Son, Spades, Tartan, Touching, Unit

Bathing machine owner and swimming master, Essex

Pictured in front of his bathing machines on the beach at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, is Charlie Bates with some of his family and the horse which hauled the machines down to the water's edge and back. Holding the horse's head is Charles Polley, wearing a jumper with the title Swimming Master.
circa 1920

© Mary Evans Picture Library/The Pete Frost Collection

Family & Beach Cricket

A family pose for a photograph on the beach at Weston-super-Mare in front of the Grand Pier with all their beach toys: cricket bat and stumps, a racquet and ball, bucket and spades; father smokes a pipe Date: 1920s

© Mary Evans Picture Library

Bat, Beach, Bucket, Cricket, Family, Pose, Racquet, Scenes, Sea Side, Stumps, Toys, Travel