Reflecting a new post-war prosperity and increases in leisure time, these holiday houses were often architecturally designed, artistically furnished and thoughtfully attuned to the site, and to the natural and scenic surrounds.
armers bought their ‘absolute beach front’ blocks for practically nothing, and, with little or no council regulation, knocked together crude structures of cement sheeting and corrugated iron before variously painting them in pale yellow, blue or green – or the infamous ‘mission brown’ of the austerity era. Communities would spring up on sections of beach where families would go on fishing holidays between the busy harvest and sowing seasons, bringing water,
