How music festivals have replaced seaside holidays

There are photographs, taken during the 1930s and 40s, of British seaside towns teeming with people. Absolutely ram-a-jam, chock-full: hundreds of holidaying workers walking arm in arm along promenades, giggling as they lean over railings, perching atop one another's knees on beaches so pebbly that every deckchair looks as though it's about to snap shut and swallow them.Where did they go, those people? Why did they abandon Blackpool and Skegness and Margate and Rye? The usual line is that, some ...

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