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Headline: Vintage British Seaside Fashion

Caption: PICTURE SHOWS: Weymouth, the Sands 1918 .... Ready for school Summer holidays? This fascinating collection of vintage photographs show British seaside fashions over the years. Part of the Francis Frith Collection, they range from an 1890 image of Llandudno beach, where mild sunseekers are fully-clothed and all wearing hats, to a 1965 picture of Newhaven promenade in East Sussex, where a mother pushes her pram wearing a relatively skimpy bikini. These fascinating photographs form part of an amazing national treasure of images becoming available online for the first time. The magnificent archive of historical photographs that Mr Frith and the Frith company photographers created between 1860 and 1970 bears fascinating witness to the changes that took place in around 8,000 cities, towns and villages throughout Britain over more than a century of incredible transformation.

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