#leisure

A lido is an outdoor public swimming pool. Britain built hundreds of them between the wars, mostly in confident art…

The pub quiz is a fixture of the British week. A pub sets aside a weeknight, a quizmaster reads out…

Butlin's is the British holiday camp: a fenced resort by the sea containing accommodation, restaurants, swimming pools, theatres, funfairs and…

The British seaside holiday was created by the railways. Before the 1840s the coast was for fishing and for the…