{"id":58795,"date":"2026-05-18T15:19:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birkwood.org.uk\/website\/?p=58795"},"modified":"2026-05-18T15:19:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:19:48","slug":"history-of-seaside-holidays-past-now-or-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birkwood.org.uk\/website\/history-of-seaside-holidays-past-now-or-both\/","title":{"rendered":"History of seaside holidays: Past, now or both?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">We did an excellent job of comparing seaside holidays in The Victorian Era to nowadays this afternoon!<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"1080\" data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.birkwood.org.uk\\\/website\\\/history-of-seaside-holidays-past-now-or-both\\\/&quot;,&quot;likes_blog_id&quot;:49611673}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 1080px; 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