Holiday Season on the English Riviera

From the collection of

The Box
Established in 1992, the South West Film & Television Archive collection spans from 1893 to the present day containing more than 250,000 items. Formed from a variety of depositors, including broadcast news and programmes material from the Westward and TSW archive. In 2018 the archive collection transferred to The Box in Plymouth.

Holiday Season on the English Riviera


TV reporter Del Cooper is on the English Riviera at Paignton and Torquay looking at the first holiday weekend of the 1970 tourist season. In the early seventies many Brits were enticed away by new low cost package holidays to Spain and France and English Seaside resorts had to compete with the more exotic locations even though the unique selling point for staycationers was usually the superior toilet facilities!


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