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WE DO LIKE TO BE BESIDE OUR SEASIDES ...continued Rock of sages Everyone became a sucker for ‘seaside pink’ lettered rock, which seems to have been invented in the 1840s - probably at Morecombe. It began by featuring, not place names but ‘cheeky phrases’ such as KISS ME QUICK and SQUEEZE ME SLOWLY. It didn’t take long for these immortal lines to find their way onto hats and along ribboned ‘favours’ worn on the lapel but it was another thirty years before the penny dropped and enterprising seaside towns, in their wisdom, thought to put their names down the middle. Appetites for change There is nothing new about fast food - cheap and tasty things that could be be eaten on the hoof, strolling along the prom. popularity in Devon by train-riding London holiday makers. The commercial ice cream cone we know today was introduced into Britain by an Italian in Manchester in 1902 and soon found universal appeal around our seasides. This cornet also sounded the funeral note of the so-called ‘penny ice’ as it also triggered a genetic change in our nation’s seagulls. The penny ice was bought from a cart on the promenade, eaten on the spot from a small glass dish with a wooden spoon and the dish returned for washing up. But whereas the cone was a great liberator there was a price to be paid for this new freedom. Ladies especially, and quite wisely, between licks held their ice creams out, as far away from their bodices and long dresses as possible but in so doing they provided an open invitation to every passing seagull to come and get it. Postcards from the edge The ‘new’ seasides, with their free and easy approach to life away from the shackles of routine, broke down the rigid ideas of Victorian and Edwardian propriety and decorum. The prim and proper moved on (or sought each others company abroad) whilst left to their own devices on the beach, under the pier or who knows elsewhere ‘the remainers’ developed a bright and breezy, slap ‘n tickle approach to holiday fun that resulted, inevitably in the cheeky seaside postcard. Some 16 million of these were bought and posted in the 1930s, the hey day of gagsters and artists like the immortal Donald McGill flourished and for the academically minded seeking enlightenment there is a museum dedicated to some of his naughtier creations at saucyseasidepostcards.com Most popular of seaside foods of course was fish, especially fish and chips. The dish (or rather the newspaper-wrapped meal) came into being circa 1850 via the culinary skills of a Jewish immigrant to the East End of London, one Joseph Malin. Londoners brought their fondness for this with them, along with whelks, winkles, cockles, mussels and - inevitably, jellied eels - this time an 18th century invention and again brought into Today, 117 years and ten and more generations of seagull later (they can live up to 15 years) it would probably take counselling sessions of some kind amongst the die-hard birds to break them of this inherent opportunism. Jane Austen versus Mark Sheridan We’ve come a long way at the seaside here in the West Country since Jane Austen dried herself off in a bathing machine in Lyme Regis and wrote (with some unusual spelling) to her sister, Cassandra: “The Bathing was so delightful this 146 CONTENTS COUNTRYSIDE VISIT FOOD & DRINK THINGS TO DO
Bringing the Past, into the Present, for the Future Gg Mary Hyland Genealogist as heard on BBC Radio Devon Gg Clients have complete control over their projects and their budget. Research is as accurate as it is possible to be with the resources available at the present time. Projects are carefully designed to become family heirlooms Over 800 projects completed to date. email: plantagenestafamilyhistorian@gmail.com text: 07710 567426 visit website www.plantagenesta.webs.com morning & Molly so pressing with me to enjoy myself that I believe I staid in rather too long, as since the middle of the day I have felt unreasonably tired”. Tired? So too were the day trippers who, some 50 or so years later boarded their excursions back to London after a very different kind of a day than the one that Jane had enjoyed. And as they settled back in their seats they doubtless sang, especially this song, made popular in 1909 by the Music Hall singer, Mark Sheridan. All together now: Oh! I do like to be beside the seaside! I do like to be beside the sea! I do like to stroll along the Prom, Prom, Prom! Where the brass bands play, “Tiddely-ompom-pom!” So just let me be beside the seaside! I’ll be beside myself with glee and there’s lots of girls beside, I should like to be beside, beside the seaside, beside the sea! And having come this far together you might find it worthwhile to go on line to hear that song sung by the man himself: John Fisher PEOPLE HOME DESIGN LIFESTYLE HISTORY CONTENTS Bringing the Past, into the Present, for the Future 147
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