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  • A rack of quintessentially English ‘saucy postcards’ are on display in Scarborough, the northern seaside town. Telling jokes to send back to friends and family, they using cartoon characters of buxom women, hen-pecked husbands or sexually-frustrated young men, the humour is bawdy and cheeky - the epitome of seaside holiday kitsch. The best-known saucy seaside postcards were created by Bamforths (founded 1870) and despite the decline in popularity of postcards that are overtly tacky, postcards continue to be a significant economic and cultural aspect of British seaside tourism. In the 1950s, Bamforth postcards were among the most popular of the 18 million items purchased at British resorts.
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  • A mid-morning mist sweeps across the seafront's South Beach at Scarborough, the seaside town in North Yorkshire. Kids run about on the wet sand, some leaping and some just carrying buckets of salt water for sandcastles elsewhere. With the freedom and open-space, children who perhaps live in bleak industrial towns in northern England can enjoy the fresh-air on this north-eastern coast. Their reflections are also seen on the shiny sand and although it appears to be as grim as their home may be, it is in fact a warm day but the daily sea fogs that roll across this beach, a microclimate exists and is unique to this area.
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  • Detail of a shop window selling seaside holiday trinkets including different sizes of Golliwogs, on 14th July 2017, at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England. The golliwog is a black fictional character from the late 19th century depicting a rag doll. It was reproduced by commercial and hobby toy-makers as a childrens toy and had great popularity in the UK and Australia into the 1970s. The doll has black skin, eyes rimmed in white, clown lips and frizzy hair and was seen, along with the teddy bear, as a suitable soft toy for a young boy. The image of the doll has become the subject of controversy as the Golliwog has been seen as a depiction of black people, accused along with pickaninnies, minstrels, mammy figures, and other caricatures as being racist. The golliwog has been described as the least known of the major anti-Black caricatures in the United States.
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  • Detail of a shop window selling seaside holiday trinkets including different sizes of Golliwogs, on 14th July 2017, at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England. The golliwog is a black fictional character from the late 19th century depicting a rag doll. It was reproduced by commercial and hobby toy-makers as a childrens toy and had great popularity in the UK and Australia into the 1970s. The doll has black skin, eyes rimmed in white, clown lips and frizzy hair and was seen, along with the teddy bear, as a suitable soft toy for a young boy. The image of the doll has become the subject of controversy as the Golliwog has been seen as a depiction of black people, accused along with pickaninnies, minstrels, mammy figures, and other caricatures as being racist. The golliwog has been described as the least known of the major anti-Black caricatures in the United States.
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  • Detail of a sign outside a seaside trinket shop selling temporary tattoos, on 14th July 2017, at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England.
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  • English and British flags on sale for a few Pounds outside a seaside trinket shop, on 14th July 2017, at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England.
    scarborough-04-14-07-2017.jpg
  • Detail of a sign outside a seaside trinket shop, on 14th July 2017, at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England.
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  • Disabled ladies practice driving Shoprider mobility scooters outside a retailer, on 14th July 2017, at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England.
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  • A local fisherman using a jetwash hoses down the seawater off shellfish pots overlooking the harbour, on 14th July 2017, at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England.
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  • Two boys carry large inflatable rings at a watersport ride called the River Run, at the north-eastern seaside resort of Scarborough, on 21st August 1992, in Scarborough, England.
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  • A father rests his head on tattooed arms while minding his baby, asleep in its buggy on the promenade at the north-eastern seaside resort of Scarborough, on 21st August 1992, in Scarborough, England.
    seaside_people-21-08-1992_1.jpg
  • A grinning portrait of a fishmonger from the Princess Cafe on Foreshore Road in the North Yorkshire seaside town of Scarborough. Smiling with bad teeth but with a generous and kind face, the elderly man stands on the corner, outside his traditional seaside business in the centre of town where passing trade from locals and tourists guarantee him an income  - a secure future towards his retirement in the coming years. In the background are signs advertising his produce: Haddock, Cod, and Lemon Sole - all locally caught and served with chips.
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  • A middle-aged couple sleep on a blanket as a young boy digs a hole on the sandy beach at Scarborough. The generation gap is shown here with the older people unconscious after a day in sea air while the lad with the energy of youth puts much effort into shovelling sand from the growing hole. If they are related, they are oblivious as to the dangers of excavating holes on tidal beaches.
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  • A grinning portrait of a fishmonger from the Princess Cafe on Foreshore Road in the North Yorkshire seaside town of Scarborough. Smiling with bad teeth but with a generous and kind face, the elderly man stands on the corner, outside his traditional seaside business in the centre of town where passing trade from locals and tourists guarantee him an income  - a secure future towards his retirement in the coming years. In the background are signs advertising his produce: Haddock, Cod, and Lemon Sole - all locally caught and served with chips.
    fishmonger_portrait02-19-07-1993_1.jpg
  • Awkwardly, carrying their giant rubber rings by wrapping their left hands over the top curves, three kids make their way tentatively down a ramp of concrete to a poolside ride called River Run. There are two yellow rings and one red, alternatively manhandled along the path which is already wet from other holidaymakers in this northern seaside resort of Scarborough, North Yorkshire. We do not see the childrens' faces or upper-bodies and are therefore anonymous. A sign for the ride lists a series of rules for safe enjoyment of this leisure pursuit which they are urged to obey.
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  • An elderly lady has been accompanied on a seafront walk by her beloved pet Yorkshire terriers. It is a warm late-summer's day in, ironically, the coastal North Yorkshire resort of Scarborough and the lady is wearing her favourite pink cardigan for her afternoon stroll with her pet dogs, both  friends and companions. She has paused to sit on a promenade bench, needing a coat or two of paint or varnish, to talk to the animals before continuing home. They are both on their leads and have put their front paws on her legs with equal attention to their proud master and owner.
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  • Using a tabloid newspaper, a father seeks shelter from sunshine while sitting in a council deck chair. On the front page of the paper is a headline saying "Butchered' showing a picture of an unfortunate young 3 year-old boy murdered by a maniac axeman. Close-by is the man's own son who is digging a hole furiously in the sand. He looks uncannily like a slightly older version of the murdered boy. This coincidence is heightened because of the body-language of the digging lad, seemingly about to chop an unseen object with his red spade. Both man and boy are on holiday at the northern English seaside resort of Scarborough, North Yorkshire and they are otherwise having a great time on South Beach, near the Grand Hotel building, high up on the cliff.
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  • As families with children play on the sandy beach in the distance, a red wet suit dries on the sea wall, on 21st August 1992, in Scarborough, England.
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  • A young boy looks carefully at the many saucy postcards on sale outside a seaside shop, on 19th July 1993, in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England. Telling jokes to send back to friends and family, they using cartoon characters of buxom women, hen-pecked husbands or sexually-frustrated young men, the humour is bawdy and cheeky - the epitome of seaside holiday kitsch. The best-known saucy seaside postcards were created by Bamforths founded 1870 and despite the decline in popularity of postcards that are overtly tacky, postcards continue to be a significant economic and cultural aspect of British seaside tourism. In the 1950s, Bamforth postcards were among the most popular of the 18 million items purchased at British resorts.
    saucy_postcards-21-08-1993.jpg
  • A 1990s lady sits with her pet poodle on a sea wall reading the Sunday Express magazine that features Princess of Wales on the cover, on 19th July 1993, at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England.
    poodle_woman-21-08-1993.jpg
  • A wife gives an tight, affectionate hug to her husband on the Promenade at North Bay, Scarborough, North Yorkshire. There is no such showing of reciprocated love from the man who continues to read a cricket report in the sports page of his tabloid newspaper. She is wearing a floral summer top and he is topless. In the background we see a bustling sea front. People are walking along the Prom, enjoying the sun and warmth of this usually chilly area of Britain.
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  • Ageing, elderly parents sunbathe with a teenage daughter as the father oddly faces a brick wall while sat in his wheelchair. Looking bored with the family holiday, the young lady of about 18 years of age, sits on a concrete block, the highlight of a vacation at home in Britain, rather than a package trip in mainland Europe. The father has a tanned back but sits facing the brick wall in an eccentric, odd way of sunbathing. He is obviously disabled and can’t reach a beach via steps and perhaps this is why they have opted for this rather desolate corner of the seaside town resort.
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  • A pet poodle looks towards us in the same way that an RSPCA charity box model spaniel does outside a seaside shop tourist. The shop is selling seaside resort holiday tourist trinkets – a postcard rack has been carefully placed in the middle of the pavement (sidewalk) as holidaymakers pass-by to browse the cheap mementoes. The owner of the poodle has stopped to choose some cards for those at home and allows his dog a little slack on the lead. The dog cranes its neck towards the viewer, matching the posture and stance of the model charity spaniel whose cast sits, posing in a sorrowful and empathy-making show of need, suffering and want – enough perhaps to encourage people to give to this charity, the RSPCA (the Royal Society for the Protection of Animals).
    poodle_spaniel00-21-08-1992.jpg
  • On a crowded spring day at the seaside, when families and holidaymakers, daytrippers and locals gather at England's coastal regions, a woman here is seen biting into a very soft cream cake. Covered with a chocolate topping, she sinks her mouth into its pastry and somehow manages not to let the cream ooze out over her clothes. Holding a serviette to catch drips, she looks elsewhere as behind, others stand or lean against the solid concrete sea defence wall at Scarborough, North Yorskhire.
    seaside_cake-25-05-1992.jpg
  • As an older daughter plays in the surf, a young girl hugs her mother while on holiday in the southern English seaside resort of Paignton, on 19th July 1993, in Paignton, England.
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  • View looking out to sea at Scarborough. Yorkshire, England, UK.
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  • View looking out to sea at Scarborough. Yorkshire, England, UK.
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  • View looking out to sea at Scarborough. Yorkshire, England, UK.
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  • The landlady of a typical British seaside Bed and Breakfast sits outside wearing her apron while a tame seagull waits for regular titbit scraps that she feeds the gull and its female partner, on 14th July 2017, at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England.
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