Seaside Resort
Seaside Resort Holiday - Brighton
Symbol of vacationing, first time when people began to travel & vacation. Resorts lined Brighton in England.
The opening of the resort in Brighton extended the seaside as a resort for health and pleasure to the much larger London market, and the beach became a centre for upper-class pleasure and carefreeness. This trend was praised and artistically elevated by the new romantic ideal of the picturesque landscape. A seaside residence was considered as a highly fashionable possession for those wealthy enough to afford more than one home.
Some resorts, especially those more southerly such as Bournemouth and Brighton, were built as new towns or extended by local landowners to appeal to wealthier holidaymakers. The south coast has many seaside towns, the most being in Sussex.
In contrast, the fortunes of Brighton, which has neither holiday camps nor end-of-the-pier shows, have grown considerably, and, because of this, the resort is repeatedly held up as the model of a modern resort. However, the sea is not Brighton's primary attraction: rather it is a backdrop against which is set an attitude of broad-minded modern pleasurement. The resulting sense of uniqueness has, coupled with the city's proximity to London, led to Brighton's restoration as a fashionable resort and the dwelling-place of the wealthy.
The bigger Victorian resorts, and especially those which catered for the rapidly-expanding working-class holiday market of the late nineteenth century also offered 'pleasure palaces
It emerged as a health resort featuring sea bathing during the 18th century, was used as a seaside getaway by the upperclass, and became a highly popular destination for day-trippers from London after the arrival of the railway in 1841. Brighton experienced rapid population growth, reaching a peak of over 160,000 by 1961
Symbol of vacationing, first time when people began to travel & vacation. Resorts lined Brighton in England.
The opening of the resort in Brighton extended the seaside as a resort for health and pleasure to the much larger London market, and the beach became a centre for upper-class pleasure and carefreeness. This trend was praised and artistically elevated by the new romantic ideal of the picturesque landscape. A seaside residence was considered as a highly fashionable possession for those wealthy enough to afford more than one home.
Some resorts, especially those more southerly such as Bournemouth and Brighton, were built as new towns or extended by local landowners to appeal to wealthier holidaymakers. The south coast has many seaside towns, the most being in Sussex.
In contrast, the fortunes of Brighton, which has neither holiday camps nor end-of-the-pier shows, have grown considerably, and, because of this, the resort is repeatedly held up as the model of a modern resort. However, the sea is not Brighton's primary attraction: rather it is a backdrop against which is set an attitude of broad-minded modern pleasurement. The resulting sense of uniqueness has, coupled with the city's proximity to London, led to Brighton's restoration as a fashionable resort and the dwelling-place of the wealthy.
The bigger Victorian resorts, and especially those which catered for the rapidly-expanding working-class holiday market of the late nineteenth century also offered 'pleasure palaces
It emerged as a health resort featuring sea bathing during the 18th century, was used as a seaside getaway by the upperclass, and became a highly popular destination for day-trippers from London after the arrival of the railway in 1841. Brighton experienced rapid population growth, reaching a peak of over 160,000 by 1961