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Taking the treatment cost £2.5s.0d a week, though a number of guides hinted that the local bracing air had perhaps as much medicinal value as the waters.
Taking the treatment cost £2.5s.0d a week, though a number of guides hinted that the local bracing air had perhaps as much medicinal value as the waters.
Tourists came for the bracing air and social activities.
It is quite a stocky, neo-Perpendicular building, with a west tower, nave and south aisle; the interior has single-framed roofs, and arched braces to the high collar beams in the chancel.
The bracing element of Skegness is amply demonstrated by the ladies' umbrella skills in the foreground.
Set where the old county of Westmorland reaches down to the sea, this bracing small seaside resort and ship-building port enjoys splendid views of the fells at its back.
The town has been popular for centuries; as a spa town it was known as 'the Queen of watering places', and it has always been a healthy, bracing and fashionable resort.
Many schools were established in the Brighton area, for the bracing air was ideal for children.
The market has not changed fundamentally over the years, except that today the emphasis is on clothes and general bric-a-brac, whereas the livestock sales that originated here are long gone.
A poster advertising the Bric a Bracs, an entertainment troupe, adorns the building at the landward end of the pier.
It is remarkable in that it shows a complete lack of diagonal bracing to stiffen the structure: a lot of the stresses caused to the structure when the mill was working would have been passed to the weatherboarding
Built primarily of local stone (not the hardest of materials), a belt-and-braces parish council authorised the use of facing bricks to repair the top of the tower.
The market has not changed fundamentally over the years, except that today the emphasis is on clothes and general bric-a-brac—the livestock sales that originated here are long gone.
Then building began in earnest as visitors flocked to enjoy its safe, sandy beach and bracing cliff-top walks.
The town has been popular for centuries; as a spa town it was known as 'the Queen of watering places', and it has always been a healthy, bracing and fashionable resort.
there is no evidence of habitation here before the 17th century, this windswept north-west corner of the Isle of Sheppey has since enjoyed a measure of success as a seaside resort as a result of its bracing
A bracing north-easterly catches flags and furls the lugsails of three packed boats entering harbour.
A number of the houses and apartments facing the sea have open balconies, ensuring that the occupants gain the full benefit of the sun and bracing sea breeze.
It is one of the oldest buildings in the area, dating from the 16th-century, with five bays of original timbering including curved trusses and wind-braces as well as inglenook fireplaces and exposed beams
The timber braces in the distance, just to the right of the lorry, belong to Stonewells, a late 15th-century hall house with crosswings.
