Discuss the Stages of Development in One Traditional Sport or Leisure Activity (the Seaside Holiday) and in One Newer Sport (Surfing) in Britain During the Last Century. Make Particular Comment on How Changing Social

Discuss the stages of development in one traditional sport or leisure activity (The Seaside Holiday) and in one newer sport (Surfing) in Britain during the last century. Make particular comment on how changing social conditions have influenced access and opportunity for different groups in these two case studies.

This essay will examine the expansion of seaside holiday throughout the United Kingdom. It will examine the impact ongoing changes in the various gender, age and social groups. After this it will analyze these same issues but for modern sport in Great Britain – surfing.

Freelance historian, Kathryn Ferry (2009, p7) wrote, that half of the twentieth century have brought to millions of British people an incredible survival - spending their free time during the holiday at the seaside. Likewise children and adults could not wait to see sights that were possible only during the holidays spending near the coastline. Building sand castles, hanging out at the beach, taking sea and sun bathing, and finally, bragging to friends how great it was to have relax from everyday life. Young bachelors and maidens in holiday saw the chance to make new friends, casual affairs, and spending as much free time just for having fun.

English Professor John Walton, listed the basic elements of 'traditional' seaside holidays. And despite all the changes that have occurred, and receipts from other countries continue to connected with:

        “Childish innocence (buckets, spades and sandcastles), nature (starfish, rock-pools and gulls as well as the power and tranquility of the sea itself), simple 'old-fashioned' fun (donkeys, roundabouts, Punch and Judy, boat trips, beach entertainers), and tasty, informal seaside food: fattening, glutinous and eaten out of the bag while on the move, in defiance of conventional table manners (fish and chips, ice cream, candy-floss, cockles and whelks).” (BBC, 2010)

The origins of the coastal holiday dates already in the second half of... [continues]

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