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Pier and Harbour
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What better than a stroll down the pier taking the air, admiring all the different boats, seeing, and being seen? Such may the genteel Edwardian holidaymakers have thought, before sending these cards, preserving for us, about a hundred years later, the views they'd have seen too. But spare a thought for the differences between the lives of the rich and poor: physically so close to each other, yet divided by lifestyles so remote from each other they could be in different worlds - as indeed they were.
All images from postcards and photos in my personal collection.
Royal Hotel, St John's Church and the South Pier, about 1905.
There's something reassuring about having that church at the end.
In this one the pier almost looks like a bridge, well on the right hand side anyway. This card looks like it's totally hand drawn!
Doesn't the wooden boardwalk here look so much nicer than the horrible concrete that's there now?
That looks like a capstain at the end, maybe for hauling the lifeboat in,
I think it used to moor just behind that chap at the front with the hat.
The long colourful dresses and the hats of a different class and a different era.
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