about Bank Holiday Britain
Bank Holiday Britain is dedicated to the everyday incidents, scenes, objects and products that remind you just how marvellously mundane British life can be.
Named in tribute to those much-anticipated special days out when you were younger which somehow never quite managed to live up to their promise, a Bank Holiday Britain moment is an ordinary, run of the mill, day to day event that can crop up any time, any place, anywhere. It can be something unique, spotted by chance or good timing, or it might be something you’ve seen a hundred times but never really thought about before. Sometimes negative and sometimes positive, a Bank Holiday Britain moment might leave you feeling deflated, ruffled or bemused, or it could enchant, delight or entertain you. Sometimes they’re just so plain and ordinary that you’re not even sure why you’ve noticed it or why it appeals to you.
Whatever form it takes, there’s no escaping a Bank Holiday Britain moment - all you can do is shrug your shoulders and carry on. Then, like a sigh, a shiver or a sneeze, you’ll forget about it almost straight away, only for another one to take you by surprise sooner or later.
This website features a collection of photographs capturing the spirit of Bank Holiday Britain. It includes the bewildering and the bland, the dramatic and the drab, the hopeful and the hopeless, the impressive and the inappropriate, the ordinary and the odd, the plain and the poignant, the singular and the sad, the uninhibited and the unconventional, the wayward and the wonky - in short, just some of the ingredients that make Britain the country it is today.
