‘Brighton Belles’.
Posted by Big John on November 23, 2006
When looking through my collection of old family photographs I noted that a number of them were taken by professional photographers.
I would guess that the two pictures shown here were taken around 1920 and both show people on the beach at Brighton. The overdressed couple on the left were friends of my mother. How about that three piece suit, watch and chain and white boots; and isn’t that a wonderful hat that the girl is wearing ?
It’s interesting to note that the pair are sitting in deck chairs bearing the name of a photographic studio, for it would seem that beach photographers liked to use their own ‘props’ in those days, as in the picture below.
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This photograph shows my great aunt Amy seated between two friends and probably going nowhere, as I suspect that the motorcycle was firmly fixed to the concrete.
If you look carefully at the young man in the deck chair you will see what appears to be a flask in his right hand, and judging by the look on his face …
… I don’t think that this was a photographer’s ’prop’.
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