DOWNSTREAM CIRCUIT - "THE PEOPLE" : Seaside (SB22)

Our maritime character as expressed at home - the port, the seaside resort, the wild coastline between them.

"Whenever the British feel the need to relax- either after a heavy week in their industrial centres or a hard year on their land-they tend to head for the seaside. So, too, the visitor who has wound his way round the whole of this Exhibition may himself feel inclined to relax in the 'Seaside' section.

The seaside that runs round the whole of Britain is of three main kinds, and these are reflected in the displays here. There are the small working ports, the large pleasure resorts and the stretches of undeveloped coast which lie between.

Give the British 'A mile of warm sea-scented beach' and they do not feel, or seem, so sad and frigid after all. Rather do they betray a deeply concealed belief in what Robert of Gloucester wrote six hundred years ago:-

'England is a right merry land, of all on earth it is best,

Y-set in the end of the world, as here all in the West,

The Sea goeth it all about, it stands right as an isle.' "

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