The Observer magazine - Seaside Britain cover (8 July 1984)

The Observer magazine - Seaside Britain cover (8 July 1984)
Good condition for age - discolouration to page edges - very light bending at spine

CONVOY TO NOWHERE - The dropouts and drifters who form the ragtaggle community known as The Convoy live in broken-down caravans and polythene-covered huts, a last outpost of the hippie new frontier. Colin Jones visited their latest camp
4 pages

ROYAL AND ANCIENT - The British Open Golf Championship begins in St Andrews a week on Thursday. Ruth Wishart penetrated the all-male stronghold of the club of clubs, whose members include Sean Connery and Kenneth Kaunda
2 pages

THE PALACE OF MARRIAGES - When he went with his father to what was once their family home in Leningrad, Michael Ignatieff found that the house still stood, functioning as a palace where Soviet marriages are solemnised. Surprisingly little had changed since the day in 1917 when revolutionary soldiers took to the streets
3 pages

HORACE OVE - 2 pages

COLLECTED WORKS - Fashion students are alive and thriving in colleges outside London. End-of-term report (by Helen Roberts)
2 page photo feature
(Includes: Maria Cornejo, Karen Boyd, Rachel Jones, Alyson Digney)

SEASIDE BRITAIN - Over the next eight weeks, writers including Sir Hugh Casson, Ronald Blythe, Jan Morris and Ken Dodd will be celebrating favourite stretches of Britain's coastline in a new summer partwork. To set the scene, who else but the late Sir John Betjeman?
8 page feature
(includes half-page poem from 'Summoned By Bells' by John Betjeman)