In the 1930s, sunbathing swept the nation as the latest holiday trend and working people finally got the right to paid leisure time. At seaside resorts around Sussex competition for visitors took architectural form in streamlined lidos, ocean liner-inspired apartments and flat-roofed bungalows. Taking the ground-breaking De la Warr Pavilion at Bexhill as her starting point, Dr Kathryn Ferry makes a tour of the Modern buildings that defined an era and provided the backdrop to those sun-drenched railway poster images so redolent of the interwar years.
The talk will last an hour with time for audience Q&A after.
Kathryn Ferry is a historian and author who loves to be beside the sea. She has published on the history of beach huts, British seaside holidays, bungalows and holiday camps and wrote the 80th anniversary official history of Butlin’s. Her latest book is Seaside 100: The History of the British Seaside in 100 Objects. When not walking on the prom or collecting old seaside postcards she can be found sharing her enthusiasm via TV, radio and podcasts.
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