Swanage then and now
Joël Lacey looks at how much – and how little – Swanage has changed over the last century
Published in August ’21
THOMAS Hardy wrote of Knollsea (Swanage) in The Hand of Ethelberta, that it was ‘a seaside village lying snug within two headlands as between a finger and thumb’. Its sweep of sandy beach, piers, seaside accommodation and gentle slope down to the sea make it a natural seaside holiday location. The war artist Paul Nash, who spent the years 1935 and 1936 in the town, described Swanage as reminiscent ‘of a dream image where things are so often incongruous and slightly frightening in …
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