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Vintage seaside photographs from Quirky Prints

“Oh I do like to be beside the seaside!” So goes the well-known refrain from this famous old Music Hall song and when we look at vintage seaside photographs from years ago, we can see its words reflected the reality well. The British just loved their seaside holidays! End of the pier shows, kiss me quick hats, candyfloss and holiday camps, have caused tenderness for a period when life's pleasures were simpler and foreign holidays were the sanctuary of the very rich.

These beautiful vintage photographs provide us a fascinating view of how we used to appreciate our time spent by the sea. No one remembers days spent in the workplace, but everyone has childhood memories of holidays by the sea in Britain. With bright blue skies and yellow sand, building sandcastles and trying to stop the sea from washing them away; eagerly looking for crabs in rock pools; the excitement of seeing the sea for the first time, after another year at school. Quirky Prints spotted this nostalgia and love we have for the great old British seaside and set about collecting vintage seaside photographs for their website of vintage photographs.

Their hunt for old black and white photographs and images took them to hundreds of antique shops, collectors’ fairs, vintage photograph dealers and specialists around the UK.

The resulting collection is thousands of hand-picked vintage photographs, on all manner of subjects, including landscapes, people, shops, far-flung civilizations and transport from years ago. Among the many old black and white, hand-coloured and sepia photographs collected, was a selection of beautiful and evocative vintage seaside photographs.

Within the dedicated SEASIDE category on their website, Quirky Prints offers a selection of these unique vintage photographs. Within various subsections, you can find an enthralling selection of images, from seaside bathers in elaborate swimsuits, children paddling in lacy bloomers and donkey rides along the beach. All are caught in evocative colour or black and white photographic detail.

These old, forgotten, but rare vintage photographs, make stunning framed pictures. They become unique art, which can be hung in our homes, or bought as original and imaginative gifts for friends. No matter that we know nothing of the people or places in these old photographs. They are instants frozen in time. Unusual seaside pictures with their unique story to tell. They have as much meaning and resonance with us today, as they had for those involved in creating the vintage photograph all those years ago.

The original vintage seaside photographs are all reproduced using Giclée techniques on finest grade, heavyweight art paper, to preserve all the fine detail and quality of the image. They are then enlarged and presented in contemporary metal frames, which have been carefully chosen both to improve the images and to complement any style of home decor. They make an unusual home interior idea that will make your house stand out from others.

For anyone who is absolutely uninspired and tired with exactly the same prints offered for sale in the high street – those thousands of similar pictures that appear in thousands of homes across the UK - Quirky Prints offers something new, some different. For quirkiness you won't find anywhere else.

There are many other categories to select from on the Quirky Prints website - from Agriculture to World War II – with literally thousands of images taken from original vintage photographs. Each of the old black and white photographs has been carefully restored to remove any damage, but preserve the originality of the image. Others have been painstakingly hand coloured or had their original colours restored. In fact, Quirky Prints pride themselves on their photo restoration techniques.

The result is a remarkable visual time capsule of years gone by. Within the collection of vintage seaside photographs on the Quirky Prints website, we can share some of the sun, sea and sky from all those years ago.