Places to go, people to see
| In the 1920s, working people and their families had enough money and paid holiday from work to go on day trips for the first time. The railway started taking people to the seaside and buses took people to places where trains couldn't go. |  |
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Progress was being made in the design of buses. They were reliable and comfortable enough to take people on longer trips. |
| As working people became wealthier in the 1930s, caravan and camping holidays allowed them to go away for longer than a day. In 1937, Billy Butlin opened his first holiday camp in Skegness. |  |
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For wealthy people in the 1920s and 1930s, there was the freedom to travel the world boosted by the improvement in rail, sea and road transport. |
Are holidays different now? How are your holidays the same or different to those of your parents or grandparents when they were young?
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