Women and Children Sitting on a Groyne, Splashing With Their Feet on a British Beach, 1920. Britain after the First World War. 'Gone with the wind of war were the ladies of Victorian and Edwardian England, the ladies that once would have bathed only when covered from head to toe. Now the beaches of Britain were displaying, well, more than any respectable woman should. Splashing about as though in the privacy of their own bathrooms, the shameless hussies'. From "Time To Remember - The Plunge Into Peace", 1920 (Reel 3); events of 1920 - weddings, women's rights, industrial unrest and p


Women and Children Sitting on a Groyne, Splashing With Their Feet on a British Beach, 1920. Britain after the First World War. 'Gone with the wind of war were the ladies of Victorian and Edwardian England, the ladies that once would have bathed only when covered from head to toe. Now the beaches of Britain were displaying, well, more than any respectable woman should. Splashing about as though in the privacy of their own bathrooms, the shameless hussies'. From "Time To Remember - The Plunge Into Peace", 1920 (Reel 3); events of 1920 - weddings, women's rights, industrial unrest and problems in Ireland


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