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A glass of chilled white wine, a soft spring breeze coming in from the sea and the warming sun on your face must be the perfect combination of elements to ensure total inner peace and calm.

As the sun begins to get stronger each year many of us take stock of our sunglasses collection. If this sounds like you before you spend, read our history of the classic and iconic Ray-Bans on page 10.

We celebrate London 2012 by taking a look at some of the most incredible images captured at previous Olympic Games on the water on page 6 and continue our love of the ocean and stunning images on page 40 with our look at the advertising posters from the golden age of cruise liners. Images that definitely evoke the days of cocktail sophistication and glamorous travel.

Coming back to home those passionate, ebullient masters of Italian cookery, Antonio Carluccio and Gennaro Contaldo bring us some of their recipes from their forthcoming televison series and book on page 28.

We also indulge our love for beachside informed interiors with sumptious, and we think, inspiring images from around the world in our seven page interiors special which starts on page 18. If you really want to make the ultimate waterfront property statement why not buy your own private island? You can find out more on page 34.

Of course we can’t all live by the sea but a swimming pool may provide you with a watery option. That is certainly the case in California as you can see on page 50. And finally just to make sure that your memories are not forgotten we round up the best still cameras that also capture the moving image on page 55.

Now it’s time for a rest and a little more chilled white...

Samantha Scott-Jeffries Editor OCEAN VIEW 3

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Ocean View Magazine Editor: Samantha Scott-Jeffries samantha@lifemediagroup.co.uk Editorial Director: Grant Scott grant@lifemediagroup.co.uk Production Design: Harriet Weston harriet@lifemediagroup.co.uk Media Director/Advertising Sales: Linda Grace linda@lifemediagroup.co.uk Managing Director/Publisher: Lee Mansfield lee@lifemediagroup.co.uk Commercial Director: Simon Skinner simon@lifemediagroup.co.uk Accounts: Clare Fermor/ Amelia Wellings: clare@lifemediagroup.co.uk amelia@lifemediagroup.co.uk Published by: LMG SE LTD Park View House 19 The Avenue, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN21 3YD 01323 411601 Printed by: Gemini Press Unit A1 Dolphin Way, Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, BN43 6NZ 01273 464884 All material in this publication is strictly copyright and all rights reserved. Reproduction without permission is prohibited. The views expressed in Ocean View Magazine do not necessarily represent the view of Life Media Group LTD. Every care is taken in compiling the contents but the publishers of Ocean View Magazine assume no reponsibilty for any damage, loss or injury arising from the participation in any offers, competitions or advertisment contained within Ocean View Magazine. All prices featured in Ocean View Magazine are correct at the time of going to press.

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Welcome: An invitation to explore what’s inside our third issue of Ocean View.

Portfolio: Dip into the stunning book which charts the history of sailing through the Olympics of past years.

Birth of the Cool: Ensure your cool credentials by reading our history of the iconic sunglass company Ray-Ban. White Out: We show you how to turn a bright white space into a comfortable eclectic seaside home.

The Ocean House: The deep rich colours featured in this Hawaiian home are both inspirational and meditative.

Greed is Good:: Antonio Carluccio and Gennaro Contaldo bring us recipes from their Italian roadtrip.

Slice of Paradise: It may seem like the ultimate indulgence but it is possible to own a private island. We find out where and how.

Fine Lines: The golden age of cruise lining commemorated in evocative advertising posters of the time.

Backyard Oasis: The California swimming pool imortalised by some of the centuries best photographers.

Two Into One Does Go: The Ocean View essential round up of the new breed of camera that captures both still and moving image.

It Was a Good Day, I’ve Got a Stretchy Face: A beachside day trip to the south coast in the 1970’s is relived with fondness.

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Olympic Gold

The Olympic Games is one of the world’s greatest sporting pageants and sailing has been part of it almost since its conception. Ocean View previews the book by professional racing sailor, writer and broadcaster Mark Chisnell that explores the gritty determination and talent of Olympic sailors throughout history.

This gorgeous photographic coffee table book reflects the entire history of Olympic sailing, with spectacular photographs celebrating heroes such as Paul Elvstrom and Ben Ainslie, fabulous locations, legendary classes - and the never-ending struggle of an Olympic sailor to make his mark. Sailing Gold is divided into sections covering three eras of Olympic sailing (the early years and yachting; modern dinghy racing and Elvstrom; the new professional era and Ainslie). It also tells the reader how sailing came to be in the Olympics, explores the training, teamwork, trials, selection, hope and heart-aching near misses of competing.

The Legendary classes and boat designers including the 49er, Laser, 470 and Europe. The fabulous locations - including Mexico, Montreal, Sydney, Athens and China. Yet finally the great Olympians, whose titanic struggles, outstanding achievements and logic-defying victories live on in the popular memory. Featuring awe-inspiring images from the best sailing photographers in the world, each with an enlightening and entertaining commentary, this stunning book is a true celebration of this amazing sport through the years. Look out Weymouth you have all of this coming your way very soon.

Sailing Gold: Great Moments in Olympic Sailing History, by Mark Chisnell is published by Adlard Coles Nautical, ÂŁ25.

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FAR LEFT: The McKee brothers had already found Olympic success separately: Jonathan won gold in the FD in 1984, and younger brother Charlie won bronze in the 470 four years later.

They then teamed up (at the ages of 40 and 38) to race the 49er in Sydney in 2000 - and came away with a bronze medal each.

LEFT: Another one for the never-give-up ďŹ les: Paul Foerster already had two silver medals when (at the age of 40) he teamed up with Kevin Burnham for a shot at the Athens Olympics.

Burnham had also already won silver in the 470 class - way back in 1992 with Morgan Reeser. He was 47 when he went one better with Foerster and took gold in 2004.

LEFT: The gold and silver medal crews in the Women’s Yngling class race through a Qingdao rain squall in 2008.

On the left are the Dutch team of Mandy Mulder, Annemieke Bes and Merel Witteveen, and on the right the winning British team of Sarah Ayton, Sarah Webb and Pippa Wilson.

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LEFT: Adam Beashel and Teague Czislowski won the Australian selection trials for the 49er for the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, but the Australian Yachting Federation (AYF) nominated Chris Nicholson and Daniel Phillips instead. Beashel and Czislowski appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which ordered the AYF to reconsider. The AYF did so, but again Nicholson and Phillips were selected and they went to the Games, but didn’t win a medal.

Beashel went on to happier times — seen here at the top of Emirates Team New Zealand’s mast during the challenger series for the 2007 America’s Cup, which the Kiwis eventually won.

LEFT: Roman Hagara and Hans-Peter Steinacher of Austria won gold in Athens in 2004. It was the pair’s second Tornado gold medal, the first coming four years earlier in 2000 in Sydney.

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RAY-BAN: THE STORY BEHIND THE BRAND

Birth of the Cool The Ray-Ban brand has become an essential part of many peoples summer wardrobe but we wondered how many of you knew about the company’s heritage, so we found out how these iconic sunglasses came into being.

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f you ask somebody what sunglasses they are wearing and they reply, “Ray-Ban” their reply is not only a statement of their own cool status but also of your lack of cool. If you can’t recognise a pair of Ray-Ban’s then you really do need to brush up on your ‘which sunglasses are cool etiquette’. Ray-Ban are a brand with serious heritage that dates back to the 1920s and it is that heritage, which has helped make the brand a staple item of any fashion conscious person’s wardrobe.

The Twenties was a decade of remarkable advances for aviation but the development of new airplanes that could fly higher and higher came with altitude-related problems particularly for pilots who were suffering from headaches and nausea due to glare and tiredness brought about by the longer distances that they began to travel. As a result of these issues a test pilot in the American Air Force, Lieutenant John A. Macready, asked the company Bausch & Lomb if they would create a new type of air force eyewear that would protect pilots from glare at high altitudes, while at the same time ensuring a clear field of vision and that looked sophisticated. The company took up the challenge and succeeded in developing a new pair of glasses with lenses that could block out a high proportion of visible light. This marked their first, greenlens Anti-Glare eyewear for military use. In 1936 they made this technology available to the general public set in a plastic frame [weighing just 150 grams] and the classic Ray-Ban Aviator was born.

However, the name of Anti-Glare for their new technology was felt to be too generic in the competitive sunglass market of the 1930s so in 1937 the Ray-Ban trademark was registered and marketed, on a revised version of the Aviator with a metal frame.

During the early years, Ray-Ban’s marketing emphasised the functional aspect of the new eyewear, targeting sport enthusiasts and lovers of the outdoor life and in 1938; the first Shooters model was launched. These were available in

“Lieutenant John A. Macready asked the company Bausch & Lomb if they would create a new type of air force eyewear that would protect pilots from glare at high altitudes” two types of lens, Ray-Ban Green and Kalichrome, a pale yellow lens for use in misty or foggy conditions. Not content with these innovations shortly afterwards, a third, groundbreaking, metal-frame model hit the market called the Outdoorsman, originally called Skeet Glass. These were designed specifically for hunting, shooting and fishing enthusiasts. It was a golden age for Ray-Ban and their eyewear became increasingly popular among pilots, police officers, hunters, anglers and all those involved in outdoor activities as well as amongst Hollywood actors just as Hollywood style was just beginning to have an impact on the international world of fashion.

Throughout the Second World War American Air Force pilots and the army

wore Ray-Bans on their missions because of the brand’s outstanding lenses and in so doing finished off an iconic fashion look which has since been repeatedly used as a fashion inspiration by designers as diverse as Georgio Armani, Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger. When General Douglas MacArthur landed on the beach in the Philippines in World War II, and photographers snapped several pictures of him wearing them Ray-Bans were quickly seen outside the army and knowledge of the Ray-Ban brand and the reasons for wearing them quickly spread.

Despite Ray-Ban’s continued commitment and research into glass wear for the military it was in the forties that they started to focus more on the consumer market and developed a gradient mirror lens, which featured a special coating on the upper part of the lens for enhanced protection, and no coating lower down for a clear view of instrumentation and other objects.

Ray-Ban Classic Aviator (Polarised)

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Ray-Ban Wayfarer optical

This consumer market became increasingly important to Ray-Ban throughout the Fifties as the fashion world became increasingly important to the company and glasses became as much a fashion accessory as a necessity. In 1952 they launched their second iconic shape and model the Ray-Ban Wayfarer, which like many other Ray-Ban models had a simple design and were easy to wear. Destined to become classics, they immediately attracted the attention of the film industry. The fifties and sixties were when Ray-Bans gained global recognition and their ultimate stamp of cool through American pop-culture endorsements for the first time. Actresses such as Kim Novak and Marilyn Monroe wore Wayfarers in public and in their movies as did Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 iconic style movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s. James Dean became known for his teenage rebellion and wearing

“The fifties and sixties were when Ray-Bans gained global recognition and their ultimate stamp of cool through American pop-culture” Wayfarers until his tragic death whilst in the sixties counterculture heroes such as Bob Dylan and John Lennon took the wearing of Wayfarers to a new teenage generation.

Even John F. Kennedy wore Ray-Bans.

Despite the wearing of Ray-Bans becoming a fashion choice for men and Hollywood stars it was not until 1958 that the Ray-Ban catalogue included two pages of plastic frames for women, offering a wider choice of products. This was the launch year for Smart Set, a model featuring coloured “wings” (Now a classic style motif of the fifties and the exploding American

Cultural Dream). New motifs, colours and even rhinestones were used to create ever more imaginative eyewear that kept pace with the fashion of the day.

The 1960s witnessed an authentic worldwide boom in sunglasses and RayBan rapidly became a world leader and established a wider range of products within its range than its competitors. From approximately 30 models at the beginning of the decade to 50 models by 1969, including eyewear for men, women and children. They also provided customers with holders to make sure their glasses remained in good OCEAN VIEW 15

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condition made of leather or vinyl, with each Ray-Ban product having their own specially made holder. This remains an intrinsic part of the models appeal today.

The 1970s signalled the emergence of a more sophisticated eyewear market than in previous decades and the sector developed in two distinct directions: fashion glasses and sports eyewear. Ray-Ban tracked the trends of the new decade, developing more products and striking out in several new directions. In the sports sector, the company concentrated on ski eyewear, launching a Ski & Sports Collection, which included two models, the Vagabond and the Stateside, with two types of lens, the G-31 mirror lenses and standard G-15 lenses. Another new type of eyewear that launched during the 1970s were mountaineering glasses, designed for climbers who required good protection from sunlight and wind. These had mirror lenses to protect the wearer’s eye from reflected snow glare, and also featured leather side shields, again to

Ray-Ban Classic Wayfarer

“They introduced a small collection of golf eyewear

comprising of four Ray-Ban models that were endorsed by Arnold Palmer, the most famous golfer of the day” provide protection from sunlight. Stability was guaranteed by curved nylon temples that hugged the shape of the ear. There was also a special retainer cord to make sure the glasses were not lost accidentally. The same lenses were also used in combination with the standard frames already on sale. In the 1970s, Ray-Ban also began to produce optical eyewear, but maintaining the eye shapes of the sunglass models in the range.

They also created a new colour for metal eyewear, which was specially treated chrome, which could yield an intense black that became known as Black Chrome.

They introduced a small collection of golf eyewear using this colour comprising of

four Ray-Ban models that were endorsed by Arnold Palmer, the most famous golfer of the day.

The seventies was a strong decade for Ray-Ban but as they extended their range they lost some of the cool celebrity endorsement that had helped give them an ultimate cool rating through the previous three decades. However, that was to change in the eighties when they re-established themselves amongst the film and music industries thanks to films such as The Blues Brother’s and Dan Akroyd, Risky Business and Top Gun and Tom Cruise.

From 1982 through to 1987 Ray-Ban placed their sunglasses in more than 60 movies and television shows. Within the music

business they were being worn by Michael Jackson, Elvis Costello, The Clash and The Ramones. Ray-Ban were back and they have remained the first choice sunglasses for the cool, and the want to be cool, ever since with celebrities and models today such as Lily Allen, Alexa Chung, Kate Moss and Agyness Deyn being regularly seen wearing them in public or on television.

So next time you are tempted to ask someone about their sunglasses instead of asking what sunglasses they are wearing, ask if they are Ray-Bans and if they are you will now be armed with all the facts you need to make sure that your cool rating doesn’t drop. www.ray-ban.com/uk OCEAN VIEW 17

INTERIORS SPECIAL

The living room is a carefully arranged composition of colors and patterns.

White Out

The use of pure white paint does not always have to mean a minimalist cold interior as this beach side house illustrates. Carefully chosen pieces incorporating clashing patterns and strong bold colours can turn a bright white space into a cool comfortable home.

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The exterior of the 1915 cottage displays a surfboard from the owner Spencer Croul’s collection.

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Not many surfers buy a small cottage at newport beach just to use as a beach cabana—but California is that kind of place.

Spencer Croul is a keen surf history buff.

Croul wanted a place that he, his wife Susan, and his two children could use for trips to the beach.

Built in 1915, the small, 850-squarefoot cottage needed work. Decorator Peter Dunham, agreed to join architect Scott Laidlaw in what turned into an unexpected amount of restoration. They opened up the ceilings and added tongue-and-groove panelling to the walls. The new floor is reclaimed timber made from train trestles that had fallen into the Salton Sea, a California desert salt lake. It gave them the right period look for the house.

Dunham built in as much furniture as he could to save space. He also used his fabric to line and edge the bamboo blinds, providing a subtle decorator touch to the small house. A built-in bunk bed functions as another seating area in a corner of the living room, while the tiny master bedroom is tucked into a separate room next to the kitchen. The kitchen, with its commercialstyle stove, is fully equipped to prepare food for the hungriest group of beachgoers.

Croul often stops by at the end of the day to go surfing with friends, and this house can double as a guesthouse.

“Croul often stops by at the end of the day to go surfing with friends, and this house can double as a guesthouse.”

A built-in daybed acts as a second bedroom for Croul’s guests.

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The Ocean House

Inspired by traditional Balinese palaces and temples this contemporary home sits on the Hawaiian coastline and shows how it is possible to create dramatic and luxurious interiors with strong graphic lines and rich textures.

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ike jewels sparkling on the coastline, beautiful beach houses are a wonderful sight to behold. Whether they are designed to stand out on a craggy cliff top or to blend in to a surrounding woodland environment, each beach house has its own indelible personality.

Inspired by traditional Balinese palaces and temples, this contemporary residence is sited on a beautiful promontory of exposed lava. A river of hardened lava runs through the site, symbolically connecting the house to the great Hawaiian sources of energy— the mountains and the sea.

Though modern, the house uses tropical design concepts to ďŹ t naturally into its setting and to take advantage of time-honoured building practices. Broad overhangs protect the large expanses of sliding window walls from the sun, yet

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“Croul often stops by at the end of the day to go surfing with friends, and this house candouble as a guesthouse.friends, and this house candouble as a guesthouse.” allow the house to be cooled by sea breezes.

Windows are arranged to maximise cross ventilation, and a combination of shutters, screens, and doors allow the owners to adjust the temperature inside.

A lava rock base anchors the house to the site, while the roof planes appear to float in the sky. The house is built with longlasting materials - stone, teak, bronze, steel, and copper - to stand up to the harsh coastal weather.

The restrained elegance of the material palette serves as a quiet backdrop for the owners’ collection of Asian art and artifacts as well as modern art.

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SEAFOOD: A TASTE OF ITALY

Greed is Good!

Join the esteemed chefs Gennaro Contaldo and Antonio Carluccio as they share authentic seafood recipes from their BBC2 series Two Greedy Italians, and reveal why the flavours from their native coastline are so special

Branzino agliAgrumi Sea Bass with Citrus Fruit

Sea bass is a popular fish in Italy, and is caught along most of the coastal areas. This delicate-tasting fish is prepared in many ways – boiled, baked, grilled, even raw – and is always a delight to eat. This dish is simple to prepare and combines the subtle flavours of sun-drenched orange and lemon with the freshness of the sea.

Serves 4 4 whole sea bass, about 200g each, gutted and cleaned A handful of flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped 8 bay leaves 2 garlic cloves, thinly sliced Salt and freshly ground black pepper 1 orange, peel and pith removed, sliced 1 lemon, peel and pith removed, sliced Extra virgin olive oil, for drizzling Juice of 1 large orange Juice of 1 lemon 60ml white wine

ABOVE: Gennaro Contaldo and Antonio Carluccio OPPOSITE: Sea Bass with Citrus Fruit

1. Preheat the oven to 180ºC/Gas 4.

2. Wash the sea bass under a cold running tap and dry with a kitchen cloth. In the slit of each belly, place some parsley, a bay leaf, garlic, salt, pepper and the orange and lemon slices (reserving a few for garnish).

3. Drizzle a large ovenproof dish with oil, and carefully place the fish on top. Pour over the orange and lemon juices and white wine, then scatter with the remaining bay leaves, and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Cover with foil and place in the preheated oven for about 25 minutes, until the fish is cooked through. Take off the foil, turn off the heat and leave in the oven for a couple of minutes to rest before removing.

4. To serve, either fillet each sea bass and divide among individual plates or serve whole. Pour over the juices left in the pan and garnish with the remaining orange and lemon slices.

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“This dish is simple to prepare and combines the subtle flavours of sun-drenched orange and lemon with the freshness of the sea”

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“It is excellent as a snack, but you could also serve it as a main course with some salad on the side.”

Sardenaira

Tomato, Onion and Anchovy Tart Also called pizza all’Andrea (after Andrea Doria, the famous Ligurian sailor), pissadella or pissaladeira, this Ligurian dish reminds me very much of the Provençal pissaladière, with only a few small differences. (Provence is not far from Liguria, and at one time the two provinces were connected politically). It is excellent as a snack, but you could also serve it as a main course with some salad on the side.

Serves 4-6 500g Italian ‘00’ flour, plus extra for dusting 25g fresh yeast 450ml lukewarm water Salt 2 tbsp olive oil, plus extra for greasing TOPPING 6 tbsp olive oil 700g onions, finely sliced 1 tbsp caster sugar 1 tsp white wine vinegar 30 anchovy fillets 8 cherry tomatoes, halved Freshly ground black pepper

1. To make the dough, put the flour in a heap on a work surface and make a well in the centre. Dilute the fresh yeast in the water and gradually pour into the well. Add a pinch of salt, and mix well until you have a smooth dough. Cover with a cloth and leave to rise for 4–5 hours.

2. Meanwhile, make the topping. Heat the olive oil in a large frying pan, and cook the onions until very soft and slightly coloured, about 20 minutes. Add the sugar and vinegar, and allow to cook together for another 5 or so minutes.

3. Preheat the oven to 220ºC/Gas 7.

4. When the dough has risen, knock it back and place on a

large oiled baking tray. Press the dough out to form a square, about 2.5cm deep. Cover the surface with the fried onions.

Decorate in squares with the anchovy fillets, putting half a tomato in each square. Season with black pepper and drizzle with the olive oil.

OPPOSITE: Tomato, Onion and Anchovy Tart

5. Bake in the preheated oven for 20 minutes.

Eat hot or warm.

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Gelato ai lamponi e limone Raspberry and lemon ice cream

Whenever I think of the Italian coast, holidays – and images of strolling along the passegiata (seafront) with icecream cones in hand – inevitably come to mind! I have to admit some of the best icecreams are Italian, and the flavours you get these days can be quite unusual. I prefer to stick to traditional tastes, and couldn’t resist combining some summery raspberries with my beloved Amalfi lemons – though you can make these with strawberries, blueberries, blackberries or a combination, if you prefer.

Serves 4 200g raspberries 85g sugar 3 egg yolks 150ml milk 100ml double cream Grated zest of 1 lemon

“couldn’t resist combining some summery raspberries with my beloved Amalfi lemons – though you can make these with strawberries, blueberries, blackberries or a combination, if you prefer”

1. Place a suitable empty plastic container in the freezer. Blend half of the raspberries until smooth and mix in 10g of the sugar.

Set aside.

2. Whisk the egg yolks and remaining sugar in a bowl until creamy and the sugar has dissolved. Place the milk and cream in a pan and gently heat through. Remove from the heat and add the egg mixture. Return to a low heat and cook for about a minute, stirring all the time with a wooden spoon, until slightly thickened.

Remove from the heat, fold in the raspberry puree, lemon zest and remaining whole raspberries.

3. Remove the container from the freezer and pour the mixture into it until about ¾ full (any extra should be placed in a separate container). Leave to cool slightly, then place, uncovered, in the freezer. After 30 minutes, remove and stir well, then return to the freezer. Leave for another 30 minutes and repeat this procedure a few times until the ice cream is frozen. Leave in the freezer and use when required. If you have an ice cream machine, churn the mixture until it thickens, then place in a container and freeze, following the manufacturer’s instructions.

OPPOSITE: Raspberry and lemon ice cream

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A Slice of Paradise

The ultimate escape, the ultimate luxury and the preserve of the elite, the private island has captured man’s imagination with visions of utopia for millenia. From the idealism of Thomas Moore’s ‘Utopia’ to the ease of Gauguin’s Tahiti, we explore how our perception of island life has evolved throughout history and discover Johnny Depp’s own private hideaway, an island once inhabited by nuns and another adorned with a castle. What would your ultimate retreat look like?

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slands have always fascinated humans.

During Antiquity, songs were sung about the land surrounded by the sea, the legends of Greek mythology surround the isles around the Peloponnesus.

Authors of all eras let their heroes be washed ashore foreign lands. Odysseus and Sinbad are but two of an army of stranded heroes.

Places that seem unattainable and mysterious inspire human imagination.

However, since they always required a strenuous trip by ship, islands were considered to be inhospitable for centuries.

This is why they were for many years a place to ban prisoners, the sick and other unwanted individuals. Only the occasional shipwrecked person took a refuge in them.

Frequently, a returned adventurer spoke proudly of remote islands, which sometimes did not even exist—after all, the discovery of an island guaranteed the status of a hero.

In the 18th century, the image started to change: explorers and artists, philosophers and writers elaborately and romantically praised the landscapes in the sea. Life

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in Europe’s large cities was increasingly dominated by constriction and melancholy, when the heavenly sounding reports of the French writer Louis-Antoine de Bougainville reached his native continent.

The circumnavigator of the globe was interested in a scientific reporting approach and his stories were by no means sailor’s yarn. But, following illness and increasing moroseness on board, the stay on Tahiti was to the ship’s crew a veritable visit to the Garden of Eden—and de Bougainville transfigured the Polynesian islands to havens of peace and free love, free of jealousy, guilt, and sin. Their shores promised singing, welcoming people, sensuously scented gardens, and palm trees laden with fruit.

The philosophical basis for a movement of people back to nature was created a few years prior to Bougainville’s reports of Tahiti by the French-Swiss state theoretician Jean-Jacques Rousseau. His theory of society’s primitive state before the destructive influence of culture fuelled the new desire of the urban society to leave

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St. Lawrence River, New York, USA, Singer Castel.

Mystical and romantic rumors have always been surrounding Dark Island and the Singer Castle, which was built after the model of a Scottish mansion.

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the cheerless cities. Islands seemed to be the perfect refuge in this regard. On them, it was hoped, it would be possible to create the ideal state, similar to the one described

by Thomas More in the early 16th century in “Utopia”—a closed harmonious society, leading the perfect life. The glowing paintings of Paul Gauguin around a century later complemented the image of islands— and Tahiti in particular—as paradise on earth. Gauguin painted gracefully smiling women and lavishly colourful flowers, his paintings spoke of an untamed life. For the yearning individuals, each alluring painting and each effusive word awoke the longing for the perfect place—the myth of the natural island as a place of fulfillment was irrevocably born. To this day, Tahiti remains the mother of all places of romantic longings for escape— and all islands of the world are Tahiti’s offspring. They are an invitation to dream and linger, a place to escape the hustle and bustle and strains of everyday life. Those who live in accordance with nature are considered to be patient, learning, and wise people. Those who can sustain themselves from their island and the sea surrounding it, feel grateful to the heavens for this gift. Island dwellers master their own fate, setting the rules they live by.

Unannounced visitors are rare. If people do step on the shore, they usually are natureloving sailors, fishermen, or lovers seeking isolation. Islands are erotic. Nowhere else is love as undisturbed and unmarred as on them; not only in the moonlight are unspoiled beaches the most sought-after setting for romantic scenes and love oaths.

Many a dream of children growing up happy and free takes place on islands, that promise shelter far away from all the evil in the world. Already Friedrich Schiller compared the mother’s lap to an island with protective shores in “Der spielende Knabe” (“The Boy at Play”). Islands thus provide a sense of security: struggles between cultures and religions, turmoil and war, epidemics or famine do not take place in the island dream. At the same time, the isles promise adventure: who visits them is always an explorer and researcher. Daniel Defoe’s

Lake Iseo, Italy, Isola Di Loreto Way back in the year 400 AD, nuns are believed to have founded a monastery here, and archaeologists recovered mural remains from a chapel that stood on the Isola di Loreto at around 1500.

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classic “Robinson Crusoe,” which has been translated into almost all languages of the earth, continues to rekindle the love for adventure anew for the past 300 years.

But islands do not fascinate only adventurers and leisure seekers. They also serve as models for many landscape planners for artificially created land for new living space Islands are the site of extremes. On the one hand, people associate them with dark secrets and threatening wilderness, on the other hand they come very close to the human picture of paradise on earth.

The thread from which all the legends surrounding islands are spun consists of one part truth, a little hope, a handful of dreams, and, last but not least, the old longing for the perfect place.

Exumas, Bahamas Little Hall’s Pond Cay. The Exuma chain of islands in the Bahamas was used as a location for Pirates of the Caribbean and is owned by Johnny Depp.

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Islands with Castles Many a discerning dreamer longs for a life in his or her own castle. And the yearning for a self-sufficient little kingdom is completely realised if the castle also happens to stand on a private island. By now, more island buyers have realised their double dream of an island and a castle than this admittedly very luxurious-seeming combination suggests.

In almost every part of the world, there are privately owned islands with mansions and castles, every one of which is unique in its interplay of nature and architecture. In order to build such an imposing construction on an island, it is necessary to have a very close and precise collaboration between the building contractor and the craftsmen. It is a logistical challenge to transport the typical, heavy blocks of stone and all of the other required materials over the water. And one has to consider: Many of the big and small castles on islands have been built as far back as 100 years ago, stone upon stone by hand; an architectural and organisational master stroke. Most of these buildings feature one or more towers or are at least several stories high, in order for the inhabitants to enjoy a magnificent view over their own piece of land down to its shores.

Private islands with castles are well suited for the installation of boutique hotels, private clinics, and resorts, or as excursion destinations for day-trip tourism: Singer Castle on Dark Island in Upstate New York in the Thousand Islands welcomes 40,000 visitors every year. The guests enjoy the tour through the antiquely furnished castle and its old secret passageways. Moreover, Singer Castle is a favourite location for weddings: quite a number of newlyweds have spent their night in the Royal Suite.

Celebrity Islands Private Islands and celebrities: they seem unable to part from each other.

The most famous island owners were probably acting legend Marlon Brando, who relaxed on his beloved atoll Tetiaroa, and the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. His last wish was to be buried on his island Skorpios.

Although - or precisely because - many of the celebrities are spoiled by success, are always paid court to by somebody, and are at home in the metropolises all around the

world, they seek on their own or on rented islands a grounded life in and with nature.

They enjoy the luxury of exquisite resorts and let themselves be pampered in upscale island spas. But this only works if these establishments are administered in harmony with the environment and if they make it possible to forget the fast and artificial life of the big city for a while. One of “my” island enthusiasts once said: “My island is the pharmacy for my soul.”

Most of the celebrities who seek some seclusion on a small or large island and who would like to move freely without being recognised originate from show business or are internationally known heavy hitters of economy.

The World of Private Islands edited by Farhad Vladi, Tetiaroa, Society Islands, French Polynesia, published by teNeues.

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Fine Lines

The golden age of cruise liners and cruise companies not only created an opportunity for global travel for the masses, it also coincided with a time of creative innovation, navel business expansion and excellence in the graphic arts as Ocean View recently discovered thanks to a new book on the subject of ocean going advertising posters and their cultural significance.

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rom 1930 onwards, ocean liner interiors gradually developed away from the revivalism of the earlier twentieth century towards a more modern and self-consciously contemporary style. The same was true of poster design, with the smooth, sleek lines pioneered by designers such as Cassandre becoming the norm for most of this decade. Ships of this period were frequently a blend of Modernism, Art Deco and streamlining with touches of humour and wit, luxury and glamour. As a result of the decline in emigration to North America and the concurrent rise in the popularity of cruising, liner design began to feature permeable divisions between outside and inside, and also between different classes. Beginning with the German Bremen, moving through the French Normandie and British Queen Mary, there was a quest to use designers on behalf of the line owners to express national identities to the world and create the most appealing and fashionable surroundings for travel and leisure in an increasingly competitive market. This was the decade when design and glamour reached its zenith.

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had recovered from the Great Depression.

However, the storm clouds which were to cause the outbreak of the Second World War were starting to gather, and neither travel by ocean liner or life in general would never be the same again.

The East Asiatic Company was founded in 1897 in Copenhagen to offer services from Copenhagen to Bangkok and the Far East.

Subsidiary companies offered travel to the Baltic, the Black Sea and the Far East, South Africa and North America. The Boringia, Erria, Jutlandia, Selendia, Lalandia, Meonia and Alsia were introduced by the company in the later 1920s and 1930s for its vast array of routes. The different destinations form an unusual border to the first poster. Another poster for the same company contrasts a tawdry junk with the sleek lines of one of East Asiatic Company’s new ocean liners.

The roots of the Italian Cosulich Line lay in the Unione Austriaca Company, which was founded in Trieste in 1903, when it was still part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The company ran passenger services from Trieste to Messina, Naples, Palermo and New York from 1904. Just before the First World War the Unione Austriaca Company

provided sailings from Trieste to Canada.

The company did not operate during the War, and then in 1918 Trieste became part of Italy and the firm was renamed the Cosulich Line, which operated lines from the Mediterranean ports to New York and South America. In this poster, a Native American is pictured as he catches sight of a Cosulich Line ship, either the Saturnia or Vulcania.

The two ships were introduced in 1928 and were modestly sized at 23,346 and 24,496 tons respectively, with a maximum speed of 19 knots. The interiors were designed by La Casa Artistica, including the lavish Louis XIV ballroom in white and gilt, the Grill Room in Tuscan Renaissance style and the extravagant Pompeian swimming pool.

Germany’s North German Lloyd resurrected itself during this decade. The company built two huge liners, the Bremen and the Europa, which took the Blue Riband from the British Aquitania in 1929.

At 51,656 gross tons and over 1000ft in length, the ships matched the size of Germany’s pre-war giants. The posters emphasise this might, with one boasting of the two ‘Grossbauten’, another advertising the ‘Fastest Service to New York’ and a third

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LEFT: Cunard White Star, Tom Curr, c.1939, printed in England.

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reading ‘Schnellster Dienst der Welt’.

The posters are also modern in style, as were the interiors. The First Class interiors of the Bremen were designed

by Fritz August Breuhaus de Groot.

A modern architect, De Groot reflected the new republican sense of German national identity in his designs, which rejected the past and historical styles.

Compared to German liners of the past, the Bremen and Europa were sleek and uncluttered in their interior design. The interiors of the Europa were designed by classical architect, Ludwig Troost, and were in similarly classical modern style, building on the success of his designs for the Columbus of 1914.

Even more fantastically abstract are the two posters for the HamburgAmerican Line, featuring the Albert Ballin, Deutschland, Hamburg and New York. The St Louis undertook her maiden voyage from Hamburg to Bologne, Southampton and New York in 1929 and the Milwaukee in the same year. The General Osorio served on the Hamburg-American route from 1929, before being transferred to the Hamburg-South America Line in 1936.

C.G.T. French had launched the 45,153 ton île de France in 1927 and it was a floating symphony of Art Deco. The most famous French designers, who had been involved with the 1925 Exposition des Arts Décoratifs et Modernes, contributed to France’s new national symbol of modernity. There were 439 First Class cabins, each uniquely created in a signature style. This was chic, luxury and glamour afloat.

RIGHT: Holland-Amerika Leine, Ten Broek, 1936, Joh. Enschede en Zonen, Haarlem.

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The tea salon on the promenade deck was designed by Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann in white ash and silvered bronze panelling, with a white ceiling and lighting which was concealed in six large white Sèvres vases. The red curtains were designed by Ruhlmann to blend with the red and grey carpet and upholstered furniture in grey. Raymond Subes designed an immense octagonal mirror which was placed at the top of the grand staircase, reflecting the whole of the tea room. A large lounge was also placed on the promenade deck and was designed by the Compagnie des Artistes Francais, directed by Louis Süe and André Mare. The coffered ceilings were supported by groups of deep red columns, with concealed lighting hidden behind the gilded mouldings and roses. The sumptuous Art Deco chairs were upholstered in Aubusson tapestry and there was also an Aubusson carpet.

The First Class dining room by Pierre Patout was rather more restrained – it was faced in grey Pyrenees marble and illuminated by 110 Lalique lamps in amber glass. The dining saloon could seat 700 on distinctive sycamore chairs which were upholstered with Veronese green wool in adventurous, Art Deco patterns. The floor was made from highly polished India rubber and at the centre of the room was a faux fountain, constructed from illuminated chrome tubes. The île de France was a fantastic success for the French, and was regarded as the most glamorous liner of the 1920s and early 1930s, with little competition emanating from Germany

RIGHT: Empress of Britain, Canadian Pacific, c.1934, Sanders Phillips and Co. Ltd., The Baynard Press, London

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or Britain at this time. The aspiration to attract the American traveller was also fulfilled, with passengers including Greta Garbo and Ernest Hemmingway choosing to cross the Atlantic by means of the French liner.

The Orazio and Virgilio were introduced by the Navigazione Generale Italiana in 1927 and 1926 respectively. They sailed on the route from Genoa and Palmero to Central America and the South Pacific.

Another Italian shipping company, Lloyd Triestino, which had been Austrian before the First World War, but, like the Cosulich Line, was repatriated to Italy in 1918. The company provided links from the Mediterranean to India, the Far East and Africa on ships like the Victoria, which was introduced in 1931.

The poster refers to the destination of Egypt, with the liner providing welcome comfort from the rather threatening abstract sculpture. The French company, Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique, and this striking Cassandre poster celebrate the new liner, l’Atlantique on its journey to South America.

The Union-Castle Line was created in 1900 by the merger of the Union Steamship Company and the Castle Mail Packet Company. In 1912, it was taken over the Royal Mail group, but due to the financial collapse of the Group in 1931, Union-Castle did not really recover until after the Second World War. Union-Castle specialised in travel to Africa, on ships (all named after castles) such as the Durban

RIGHT: Rotterdam Lloyd, V.Stein, 1931

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The Italia Line was created by Mussolini in 1932 following a merger of Navigazione Generale Italiana (N.G.I.), Lloyd Sabaudo and the Cosulich lines. This was part of Mussolini’s strategy to modernise and centralise Italian industry and transport, and design played a vital role in this change.

The Rex had been started by N.G.I., but it became the first new ship of the Italia Line when it was launched in 1932 and the Conte di Savoia joined the fleet from Lloyd Sabaudo. The Rex won the Blue Riband in 1933, travelling at an average speed of 28.92 knots on the westward journey. The interiors of the Rex were traditional in style, mainly

by Studio Ducrot of Palmero. The Conte di Savoia had more contemporary interiors, designed by Gustavo Pulitzer who had studied in Germany and admired the pared down look of the Bremen’s public rooms.

This new, modern image of the Italia Line is also reflected in the posters for the company.

The United States Lines continued to offer voyages from New York to Europe throughout the 1930s. The Manhattan joined the service in 1931. She was a 24,289 gross ton ship, with an overall length of 705 feet. Interestingly, America was the nation which pioneered the dissolution of the class divisions onboard liners and cruise ships.

The Manhattan had accommodation for 582 Cabin Class, 461 Tourist Class and 196 Third Class passengers. Her maiden voyage was from New York to Cobh, Plymouth, Le Havre, Hamburg and Southampton. The Washington was the sister ship, and was launched in 1933.

Whilst great stylistic innovations were being made in the design of French, German and Italian ships, Britain struggled to compete. Canadian Pacific’s monster Empress of Britain, introduced in 1931, was 42,348 tons and the largest ship the line had commissioned for travel from Britain to the St Lawrence region. The exterior styling of the ship was striking, painted all white with three buff colour funnels and elegant cruiser stern. The design of the interiors

reflected British attitudes to Modernism, which was not as all-embracing as those encountered in Germany. The Empress of Britain was designed to carry three classes of passenger: 465 in First, 260 in Tourist and 470 in Third Class on a total of eight decks. In an attempt to emulate the success of the île de France, Canadian Pacific used a galaxy of quintessentially British artists for the decoration of the First Class public rooms. James Lavery, the society portrait painter designed the First Class ballroom (or Empress Room) with its silvered classical pilasters and rose-coloured ostrich plumes.

The quixotic Knickerbocker Bar was a tiny space, which could seat twenty-one people and had a semi-circular bar with bar stools.

The walls and ceiling were decorated by British illustrator, W. Heath Robinson, who made an amusing mural illustrating the Legend of the Cocktail. Despite the investment made by Canadian Pacific, the Empress of Britain was never a great commercial success, but the interiors did demonstrate a British willingness to embrace contemporary design and add a touch of whimsy and fantasy to the ship’s interior.

Ocean Liner Posters tells the stories of both the great shipping companies and their ships, through the artwork that was used to promote them in their heyday. From the mid-19th century to the introduction of air travel in the 1960’s ocean liners were the primary mode of intercontinental travel. Millions of passengers travelled on transatlantic routes, from the very wealthy to the emigrants in search of a new life. The shipping companies also had to cater for officials travelling to and from the colonies, as well as soldiers, commercial businessmen and tourists.

In order to promote this new mode of transportation, many shipping companies released series of posters of which more that two hundred are included within Ocean Liner Posters. The posters included range from reproductions of ships at the end of the nineteenth century, through to the postwar period and on into the 1960s. These

are images created by some of the most important illustrators and graphic designers of the last century including Cassandre, Cassiers, Colin, Mason, Rosenvinge, Walther and Wilkinson. Their names may not be instantly familiar but the images they created will be.

Ocean Liner Posters is a comprehensive, intelligent and thought provoking read as well as being filled with stunning images created by two authors whose backgrounds explain why this book succeeds on so many levels. Gabriele Cadringher is a collector and restorer of memorabilia and furniture from ocean liners with a personal collection of original maritime posters many of which have been used to illustrate the book.

Whilst Anne Massey is a professor of Design History at Kingston University and recently appeared on the BBC4 series Glamour’s Golden Age and Channel 4’s Titanic: The Mission.

Ocean Line Posters may not be a book or a subject which instantly appeals but just as the posters were designed to do you will soon find yourself seduced both by the images it contains and the stories of adventure and glamour which it promises.

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Backyard Oasis

The swimming pool has long been a permanent fixture in Southern Californian homes and an inspiration for photographers. We take a look at a book which documents the swimming pools history and place in photographic history.

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“Southern California’s backyard pools have come to symbolise the American ideals of optimism, wealth, consumerism, escapism and physical beauty”

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he swimming pool holds a powerful and symbolic place in the history of filmmaking and photography. From Burt Lancaster in The Swimmer, via Marilyn Monroe in Something’s Got to Give to Charlotte Rampling in Swimming Pool, David Hockney’s pool collages and Helmut Newton’s sexually-charged images of Piscine Deligny in Paris, the swimming pool has offered image makers the promise of the enticing and the frightening; a sense of the unknown; an environment around which to create atmosphere, narrative and reflections.

And the home of the swimming pool is, of course, Southern California; which ensures that Backyard Oasis has a wealth of images from which to choose to tell the story of its evolution as an iconic symbol and creative muse.

Since the end of World War II, Southern California’s backyard pools have come to symbolise the American ideals of optimism, wealth, consumerism, escapism and physical beauty. Backyard Oasis features more than 200 images by more than 40 photographers, which cover pretty much every one of these ideals; and then some.

Photographers such as Herb Ritts, Ed Ruscha, Larry Sultan, Julius Shulman and Bill Owens bring a fragile darkness to their images, which suggest a darker side to the American Dream.

Backyard Oasis is thematically grouped into two topics, ranging from the rise of celebrity culture, suburbia and dystopia,

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avant-garde architectural landscape design and the cult of the perfect human form (often with a male focus), all combining to offer a rich and comprehensive study of the cultural significance of the swimming pool in the world of image making.

Words by Grant Scott.

OPPOSITE PAGE: Bill Owens, Hockney Painted This Pool, 1980.

OPPOSITE ABOVE LEFT: Marilyn Monroe on the set of her last film, Something’s Got to Give, 1962

by Lawrence Schiller OPPOSITE ABOVE RIGHT: Bill Anderson, El Mirador, early 1950s.

OPPOSITE: Herb Ritts, Richard Gere-Poolside, 1982

Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography 1945-1982: Edited by Daniell Cornell Delmonico, is published by Prestel, £40.00

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Nikons rugged compact is the perfect choice for the traveller and features a GPS mapping functionality.

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This sleek looking compact from Sony is available in a number of colours for the fashion conscious. Sony DSCTX5P Cyber-shot, RRP £269. www.sony.co.uk

This is the compact camera for those looking for a super powerful zoom and wide angle lens. Nikon Coolpix S9300, RRP £299. www.nikon.co.uk

There is no doubting this cameras macho rugged looks and great performance particularly in tough terrain and underwater. Pentax Optio WG-2, RRP. 299. www.pentax.co.uk

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This is definitely a camera for the style conscious but it also delivers high performance with both stills and video capture.

Nikon V1, RRP £993 www.nikon.co.uk

The Lumix DMC G3 is the world’s smallest and lightest camera with interchangable lenses. Lumix Panasonic G3, RRP £628. www.panasonic.co.uk

The Sony NEX 7 is fast becoming the pro’s choice of small camera with interchangable lenses.

Sony NEX 7, RRP £998. www.sony.co.uk

The 5D MKIII is the pro’s choice of camera for shooting both stills and video capture.

Canon EOS 5D MKIII, RRP £2999 body only. www.canon.co.uk

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If you are looking for lots of functionality for a reasonable price you could not go far wrong with the GE G100, RRP £160. www.general-imaging.co.uk

This is another DSLR favoured by the pro’s and a camera with serious heritage. Olympus OM-D, RRP £999 body only. www.olympus.co.uk

The Olympus E-PL3 is a light, stylish option with the heritage of the Olympus PEN series behind it. Olympus E-PL3 with 14-42mm lens, RRP £479. www.olympus.co.uk

Great retro design and up to the minute digital functionality has made the Fujifilm X100 an instant classic.

Fujifilm X100, RRP £899. www.fujifilm.eu

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A PERSONAL STORY

It’s Been a Good Day, I’ve Got a Stretchy Face…

Ocean View’s Editorial Director Grant Scott can remember many days and a few nights looking out at oceans, rivers and lakes but the best have all left him with the same physical feeling.

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On arrival my parents would erect the rapid spring action metal framed loungers and situate themselves in the right direction to ensure maximum bronzage, store the food in the shade under the loungers and that would be that. From then on my brother and I were free to do whatever we wish - Ferret in rock pools, swim, hit a tennis ball against a wall for hours on end or… in fact that was about it.

I can’t actually remember doing anything else other than those three activities on any of our seaside day trips. However, I do remember the by now cold sausages, crisps, warm orange squash, and warmed through squashed sandwiches for lunch followed by Jimmy Saville on the by now super heated radio, again clasped to my ear so that I could hear it and no one else could.

More swimming or tennis ball hitting would bring the day to its inevitable conclusion when we were all given something to carry that was either covered in sand or oven baked by the Sussex sun to carry back to the car before we made our long journey home, in the furnace like Zephyr, Morris or Triumph to the slow pace of the inevitable traffic jam and the Top Thirty blaring out from the kitchen radio in the back of the car (my parents were happy for this to happen and even for me to sing along as I hung out the car window staving off my childhood travel sickness).

Finally we would arrive home and the day would end with my mother back in the kitchen making scrambled eggs on toast.

Me, well, I knew if I’d had a good day. I’d have a stretchy face.

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It is a commonly held belief that for many of us our seaside childhood memories are filled with long golden, waterside frolicking, sand between our toes, donkey riding, candy floss eating days of blissful nostalgia.

Many of you reading this may well identify with exactly the halcyon vision I have just outlined and if you do I am both pleased and envious of you because I do not.

My seaside days as a child began with the smell of sausages. The smell of sausages being cooked under the grill by my mother preparing the essential ingredients for a 1970’s day at the beach, whilst my father packed the Zephyr, Morris 1800 or Triumph Vitesse (we seemed to change our car frequently and they were always purchased from friends of friends) with two folding sun loungers, straw baskets filled with assorted stuff and always large bottles of minimum factor Ambre Solaire and a coolbox so heavy only my father (an extremely strong brick layer) could lift it.

We would set out in the early hours of a Sunday morning from deepest South West London heading for Brighton, Rottingdean, or Rye and Camber Sands. Our destination dictated by the time of departure and expected weather conditions. An early start and extreme heat meant Camber, a later start and undecided weather Brighton. Either way we were accompanied on our trip by the kitchen radio with a tea-spoon jammed into its controls to ensure it stayed on. This I clutched to my ear as the signal wavered bringing me Ed ‘Stewpot’ Stewart and Children’s Favourites.

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